Spring Gardening Workshop: 17 Renowned Gardeners Reveal Their Best Advice for Beginners

With a patchy winter now all but behind us, it’s soon going to be time to get back out into the garden, if you haven’t already. And the new Spring always brings with it new gardeners keen to decorate and invigorate their outdoor spaces. The benefits of gardening are well-documented (including both physical and mental wellbeing) and our personal green spaces are highly valuable to us, providing a place for gentle exercise and relaxation, as well as being a welcome alternative to the man-made world, a place to connect with nature. Unfortunately though, there are many of us who don’t make use of our back-garden, yard, balcony or any kind of outdoor space we have, but wish they did. As with anything new, the key is taking that first step and beginning the learning process, and sometimes the best way to get that motivational kick is to speak to the experts and hear what they have to say about beginning something as a rookie – after all, they were all rookies too one day. For this reason we approached 17 renowned gardeners from both the UK and around the world to see what hints, tips and advice they might have for newbie gardeners.