To the day on Monday and Monday itself quite quiet really when it comes to what's happening with the weather they'll be a little bit of cloud around some brighter intervals lighter winds tomorrow but still a chilly feel to the day with the direction of the wind coming from the north so I think 5 Celsius the maximum temperature on Monday late afternoon into the evening they could be just wanted to sort of isolated wintry showers around but we do have a weather warning now being issued by the Met Office with regard to the possibility of seeing some snow on Tuesday and this is linked to an area of low pressure which will push up across the English Channel now is just dependent on its route basically as to what's going to happen on Tuesday itself but we are starting to find that the warnings being issued will bring a bound rain in over the colder air sort of late Tuesday into Wednesday and that's when we could see some disruptive snow on that it's subject to change they suggest keep an eye on the forecast if you have got plans for Choose day and then we'll have you know again a quite a period of weather depending on what we see on Wednesday morning but Thursday another area of low pressure coming in and this one again has the potential to actually bring some rain that will start to convert to snow so it's a bit more of a wintry sort of theme over the next few days I don't know how much chance you get to be out in the garden really and how long as you can wrapped up wound I think you'll be OK in the conservatory with hot chocolate will be falling by might yes I've come up with what I thought was a brilliant idea turns out massive failure. So I had. For. Christmas I had a wildlife trap which I attached to the bottom of a tray by a little wildlife pond at the bottom the garden and caught 11 different caps on camera Oh rot so then I thought oh no I'm going to do I'm going to put it on the trellis in parallel to the bird feeder This is a brilliant idea is it not sorry. Well I took it down yesterday and plug it into the computer I can now reveal that I have. Video. Of the. Swaying in the wind. Of the bird feeder was enough to trigger the camera Yeah. So I managed to get. Because. On the way back to the. Questions about what's going on you. We've. We've we've. We've. We've. We've. Had. We've. Donna Summer and hot stuff on B.B.C. Radio so it's 10 past 12 and time for us to talk gardening coalfields a work week in Seattle cows in coal Oh wait I weigh 19696. So if you need any help advice for your gardening give us a call of the number 19696 you can text the word drop one of our spice and you question send it through to 813 double 3 or you can email paul Shuttleworth at the B.B.C. Don't care the U.K. In a couple takes will have a chat to Allison from the National Guard in Scheme a restructure to find out what brand new gardens will be out of view to have a good old look around and a nose about a in this coming season of Open Gardens which starts sooner than you would think But 1st good morning welcome to have the facts how are you good morning I'm fine thank you so how's your garden OK. It's very windy I think it really is really I woke up this morning and I'm a I'm a gardener guy and there's a massive tree in the field behind my house my house backs onto a field which is actually backed into the M 54 which is good news because you never going to build on it because the motorway but these massive tree and I think it's a point. Somewhere between a Christmas tree and a monkey puzzle massive thing out of the masses and it was give it a good old romantics why there's no danger but you could really tell the winds have picked up because normally that doesn't move for nothing. I was just driving along I was looking at all the styles that cut Yeah you know and the going to be because they wouldn't pull it out yeah they're going to do. They go across the ocean a little to major winds like so question wise then start the ball rolling with the lovely Jenny when how are you Jenny Oh you're overreacting you're not going to go I'm not going back indoors right now right OK I get out the way I mean yeah and you go. When. I was up in Quicken to it I never got so what have you been up to in the gob this morning getting I haven't done anything in the garden this morning on orchids and trying to get things done around the house because my husband's guns of his father's 96 Give me a break to do I like OK so there's nobody in defeat so it's a free from Sunday in Jenny's eyes that's it that's me and the 2 dogs and I'm splitting it. All this this sounds like somebody on a mission you know the I'm very much a mission lady I want to be what can we help you with today what you need how I we moved back from southwest France 5 years ago and into a derelict No no a rundown house and been looked after for about and I was 70 or 80 years and my mind of a shit and I planted in the gotten a community or Bush run the little thing was only about what you know maybe can a Tinchy H.S. Take and then she stole right message to a local food stall and so cute. It's now 4 foot tall Yes and it flowered for the 1st time last year. So I need to move it because it's right next to the girl of the shed. and is not and a good position they sin the whole over the essay semi sell all day but if lao it sure the 1st time next year but i need to move it and i just want to know when this the best time to move the a now i know is not right because it's fall of boat and it's just all like to fly i was a new out boats there they ready what's the best time to do it rural eat well gee quite right yes it is just about deflower saw wouldn't go to disturb it it just ny know that i would probably go for or to maybe thing than ice really because then it would to finish fly ring and and the grind will be kylie moist when she get into autumn after all if we have an of the dry summer if there was oil rig we do i spoke a is are option is off to fly ring you possibly could off to flowering d. I spose that lot to that depends on the whether there's never get him from yeah she don't to lethal a speech of fly was do you but when you do you me fit make sure you take is much oil is your also we can i'm prepared the grind that where it's going read d.c. It's a quick maybe you've strike again andriy the fame a team well they deep 1st slightly acidic so we will as well oh she 10 to find the league's co bit on the yellow esau eat not a no no problem that right to be going position way you've decided you want to put the jen know and i haven't because and i want to know what should i thought he falls for on all semi salon well it's been right now for the last 5 yes what the prefer yeah i think probably semi shy on the shag yes yeah a lot of people put the near some think for a little bit a protection because as you know the flowering they're going to fly where when the frost is a rind so yeah the fly was sent to get not by the frost if we if we do have about do you yeah the lot of people do you tend to put them near it i bet of shell to to try in how but thought brady yeah really is an could you just got on the on the cyclic when is the best time to take culturing ziff i want to try and get from new won You know probably yeah probably about I would think yeah I take some cuttings off it stripped the lower leaves an undershirt it after not wish to observe specially evergreens in rows when I was training which is but lots of lots of them in a row but you could put a few in a pot and give it a go. Thank you so much that any special and see if I transfer it any special feet into the ground before I thought yeah you knew you could put some slow release. Fertiliser because yes it prefers a slightly acidic soil so it's likely succeed as well definitely OK. Thank. You that yes thanks a lot Bob by to thank you Bob if you have any questions large ask either give us a call the number you need is 008-081-9696 that's a telephone number here B.B.C. Radio shops you can text the word shop followed by spicing you message send it through to 813 double 3 would also lodge Welcome to the studio Allison who's from the National Guard here in Shropshire and N.G.'s gardens as busy as ever as busy as ever poor Yes and thank you for having me here to talk about them today on this horrible grey January day it's a good day of sarin. Gas in a beautiful Shropshire garden this is what we need to do is so good I mean we had a very good year in Shropshire last year despite the heat and the football and royal weddings that everything that was going on yeah and you know we as a charity we raised well over $3000000.00 pounds last year in England and Wales through people just opening their gardens people coming along paying a fee to go into the garden having a cup of tea enjoying themselves and it's so simple and it raises so my. Money particularly for cancer and caring charities such is what it's all routes my favorite thing about the N.G.'s is how we could peals to a brilliant British nosiness where we like to know what's going on it's a bit like travelling to school on a double decker bus I'm able to know who's in everybody's because you can see over the hedge or yeah or riding about on horseback just enough to go all the wonder what's going on in there and there is that the great British There's a back injury and also the sort of gardeners willingness to share so you go oh what's this always over here have a bit of it people start chopping bits of or giving a bit and I think I think that sums up gardeners really leverage generous lot under you know it's lovely to exchange not just your own the whole garden but as you say going round and you see people saying can I take a quick cutting of that it's a lovely cannot take some seeds of that and the garden gnome this will say yes of course you can help that I've got one of those potted around the back of the greenhouse I'll go and get you one put of your no no you know no one is Yes exactly yes and I think that it's very much the the British generous spirit really and that's why the charities been so successful since 1927 when it started and it did exactly the same thing then and it's doing exactly the same thing now. And it is down to people's generosity in terms of those who open their gardens the time commitment and the time to to do to get the garden ready and to get the teaser ready and get all their friends and family in just a sort of tea and cakes is quite high there are fund raising and social elements of the arts and I would imagine that it's one of those things that you love to show off what's gone well for your garden let everybody say but also the must be mounting pressure on the days up for gardeners they all know oh the weather is rubbish you're always me Lorne's yellow or whatever the. Actually we're all going through the same thing but I would imagine particularly for 1st timers it must be quite stressful on the lead up it's not hosting a wedding or or an important party and there are new gardens Open this year that we've not been to before yes absolutely we have 19 new gardens enjoy. Which is a fantastic response and it just shows how people are so supportive of the scheme it's the greatest number of new gardens we've had since this came started in shops which presumably is a lot of it because you have to go out and sort of do a wreck you don't because yes that's one of my jobs it's a tough job but somebody's got to do it but I suppose this amount of the just equal responsibility because you've got to make sure the a location nearby where people can park their car so it doesn't cause disruption for neighbors or logistical things that have to happen to make sure that you don't cause more public relations harm than good Absolutely and you know that that is a just as important and sadly there are some lovely gardens out out there in the county who I have had to say no to because they're on a lazy scenario time saying oh yeah harking and we cannot afford it people and we have to take into health health and safety of course into it as well but generally you know most people find a way around it we've got people who've got a friend the farmer up the road who's making the field evaluated failed yet we had our garden opening for example in right in 11 towns opposite the school so they're opening on Saturday and the school are allowing them to use the school Carver and things like that so it's very much the community get behind Yes there are ways round these things are there any particular villages or areas within Shropshire that have an abundance of open garden is there a league table of areas where you have more open gardens than other areas I'm not particularly you know we have very strong around the British north area through. The cove Dale and that area but the new gardens we've got are spread from way down in clan right the way up to Cole Mia and everywhere in between east and west so it's very much a spread I mean we have a new garden promotion is on catheter and common Roach is right up over on the border with nearly interested. Beyond Hopton wafers So the spread is really very wide and the for our tip gardens some are small exquisitely planted town gardens others are vast estate type gardens so everything in between so there's a real range of God and the beauty of it is as well is because of that you can go and see gardens the maybe a similar structure to your own to get ideas or you can see the extreme opposite of how people cope with their own it always sticks out from a flower show about 8 or 9 years ago reeking House interest did a yard so they did a yard garden it got a washing line in it I got there was a and it was to reflect how some of the the yards in Telford in particular state were and that actually it was quite refreshing and it had its own niceties there was a little potty little pots with different viruses of giving ideas of of what you can do and in pricing the space you've got rather than wishing you had a man a garden when you've got a small plot Absolutely and I mean there's no right so no wrongs with gardening it's your interpretation of your space and I always say to people whatever you've done in your garden is how you want it no one's going to come along and say we're not on that so it's how you want your garden to look what you use your garden for if you've got kids you know areas for playing IF you for if you're a lover of roses then you need space for your roses if you like wildlife then you're going to have wildlife. Element to it so it should reflect your personality here and no garden is perfect there's no such thing. As regard is perfect it is in . The eyes of the owner if people think it or I'd love to have a nice ride somebody has gotten How do they find out where when the gardens are open well we're just getting going for this year's season the 1st opening is Millet Park on Sunday February the 17th for its Swades and sways of snowdrops 33 weeks today 3 weeks today. And I have been there when it snowed so you know how are you there's no visitors but. The moment the website which is W W W dot N.G.'s dot U.K. Has all the gardens that I wrote this year across England and Wales and if you just go on and search and all dates it will just show you everything in shops of this coming year we've also got nearly 40000 leaflets which are going across the county Costa County may need volunteers taking them around and one of our supporters is here today. It's the 1st one applause and other times this is well we very much we can be like oh it's actually. It is I'm going to get here with reception here to pick them up to find out where the Open Gardens are of the bookies because when I was 1st Harvey I thought well you know the shop chalet to get totally but didn't get the book and then we went on holiday from Norfolk and it was like oh let's see what the Guardians are all like oh so when you go away and you're always looking for things to do with things to see what better things to do the nose around somebodies garden when you're already a holiday location absolutely yes I always keep a copy of the yellow book as its old name is still it still is in the car and if we truck driving through another county on its. Houseman's Hora I don't know. If you inspiration doesn't yet it gives you ideas and ways different looking at I can remember when I very 1st started this program I went and did a little prerecorded and I hope to God it was a probably 5 years ago now where's the time go we all ask ourselves and I wanted them out of the garden and they got like a brook that passed on the bottom and then there was an area probably about 10 feet from the book that was just bug land and I learned so much about what you could grow in that effectively shaded bog. Would absorb the water make the most of it and there is a plant or a bush or something that will work in almost every condition from you kept R.T. If you water lily there's going to be something that suits those conditions and it's just finding those inspirational ideas and what better way than to have a nose around other people's gardens to do it salute I mean as a toddler myself I mean I've learnt so much from looking at other people's gardens more than reading books or watching television programmes or whatever but I think you learn what people have done and you learn that the main thing is to not to fight nature if you've got away bit then please go with it 3 with totally agree with. You think you can spend a little time trying to change things yes it's something that you know you've got to continue to keep doing to keep writing yeah you better to stick to stick to the conditions you have for relationships I'm gardens you just go with what you've got to talk to your family. So if you want to become really fit they'll be they'll be circulating over the next sort of month or so into into the usual suspects but you can always you know it's the website now which is friendly for your year of our year of your paths a new phones if you just go and have a listen there's an app for your phone there's there's everything now. I mean that's how the charities change because of course initially it was probably sort of handwritten note that 20 Yeah we've now got everything from the print media through to yourselves radio and websites and apps and everything in between so getting the word out now is is a bigger job for us yes the volunteers Yeah but we have a lot more many more channels that we can use to spread the word and the money that you raise is part of the N.G.'s How is that spent well there's a board of trustees who decide where the money goes are made $3.00 main. Beneficiaries a Macmillan Mari Curie and hospices U.K. They're the 3 main ones but we support the Queen's nursing Institute Parkinson's. Peer ratios garden which you may well have. Built Yeah I went up with Bunny Guinea So yes he's one of the designers Horatio is gardener an initiative is to build a flat level wheelchair accessible recovery garden outside the spawn injuries you need to think about when it's taken a lot of money a lot of focus and a lot of groups and organizations come together the N.G.'s of being one of them and the plans for that are absolutely fantastic I mean giving them about a year to construct. And yeah we were going through it I'm sure we'll be there when that sort of opens to the public and that's just one of the local schemes that are benefiting from people open their gardens here instruction is I mean we and yes gave that that particular garden and $65000.00 pounds last year to that's last year to get it going and we are continuing to support that project and others around the country as well but as it will evolve yet people read stories about God in hospital and when the thing that struck me when I went to did that report is you picture. Your own experience your own experience you might go in hospital room up there for a few hours y