Brighten up your January

Jane Earthy of Monkon Elm Garden Centre gives us some seasonal gardening advice

- Jane Earthy

The sparkly excitement of Christmas is now behind us, and even though the shortest day has also passed, January can feel like the dreariest of months in the gardening calendar. Apart from a few bulbs beginning to nose their way through often frozen soil there isn’t much else to entice you outside now.

So take a look around your home and think about filling it with houseplants. Even in January there are colourful flowering houseplants available that will brighten rooms (go on, ditch that Christmas poinsettia – you know you want to). Indeed, houseplants are enjoying a renaissance at the moment so you should have plenty of choice.