Spring is not here yet, the season that’s upon us is Imbolc. Meaning in the belly or in the womb. Whilst things are sleeping underground awaiting warmer weather to burst new life into our gardens, we at Lend and Tend are also preparing for transformation.

Seasonal, SharingJoyce VehearyJanuary 30, 2024Imbolc, Pre Spring

👸🏻 Dreaming about Gardens whilst nature sleeps this Winter 🏰

As you take time to unwind this Christmas, what will you sit back and dream about? Dream with me about your own dream garden. Dreamy castles, lawns and secret garden rooms perhaps? I also share my future dreams for Lend and Tend and garden sharing plans for next year.

Seasonal, SharingJoyce VehearyDecember 16, 2023Winter Garden, Dreams

What to expect, when you're expecting to garden-share.

Expectation vs. Reality, unexpected surprises and Garden-Sharing a second time. When your garden Tender unexpectedly has to move on.

Be Cool, Share Gardens.

Be Cool, Share Gardens. How to beat the heat and the latest hot buzzword on everyone’s lips: #RegenAg (Regenerative Agriculture). But, how can we put this into practice on a small scale in shared gardens and beat the heat and effects of climate change?

Listen to Sarah Wilson on the Roots and All Podcast talking about Garden-Sharing

SharingJoyce VehearyFebruary 10, 2022

Miriam's Patch-Match in Melksham. An example of how Garden-Sharing can work.

How does garden-sharing work? Garden owners Gill and Ian talk about growing food, their ‘Ground Rules’ and garden Tender Miriam talks about how gardening and growing her own food taught her patience and kept her optimistic in 2020; thinking about the brighter happy days to come.

Love of gardening, Sharing, Local gardeners, Garden GurusJoyce VehearyOctober 8, 2021Garden sharing, How toComment

Patch-Matching in Pitlochry and Highland Perthshire

Hi to everyone in The Highlands and to all of our new Garden-Sharing friends across the border in Perth and Kinross, Pitlochry, Aberfeldy, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Girvan, Largs, Dunfermline, Dunkeld, Dundee, Peebles and Galashiels.

Connecting Neighbourhoods to End Loneliness

We’d usually be welcoming glad tidings at this time of the year but some of us might not be welcoming anyone at all. How can Garden-Sharing could help put an end to loneliness.

Sharing, Mental HeathJoyce VehearyDecember 21, 2020Love Thy Neighbour, Loneliness, Lockdown, Garden sharing

Thriving Drives and sharing-front gardens

Put your best front forward! Let’s get those front yards and driveways thriving. Most of Britain’s back gardens are concealed from passers-by, be it a garden of a terraced home or maisonette; leaving the front yard (a place to put the bins) a second thought, when it’s the thing that people see first. Why should back gardens get all the attention? If you’re unable to garden-share if you’re shielding or your back garden is inaccessible, front gardens are spaces that can be shared and gardened too! We’re teaming up with National Park City to give front gardens some love.

Small but mighty, Rajul Shah shares how gardening builds resilience and how she became The Small Gardener.

Greening driveways, pathways into a gardening career and how gardening helped when she was Postpartum. In our post-lockdown chat, Rajul also shared what made her own childhood garden so special and how you can help your children enjoy the garden so they too, grow up to be nature lovers.

How to create an *Entirely Edible Garden, even if you’re #NotaHorticulturist

notahorticulturist.com is science and gardening educator, Mama and singer Jessi Wong, based in South London. Jessi talks about feeding her family, how gardening boosts our mindfulness and how growing food and foraging got her through lockdown. As well as talking about food, we talked about fertilisers and how we might get more schools into gardening.

A potted history of the Garden Room, Garden-Sharing in Britain and why we love house plants with Advolly Richmond.

How did garden-sharing start in Britain and who in history might be responsible for our obsession with houseplants? Garden, landscape and social historian and BBC Gardeners World presenter, Advolly Richmond gives some fascinating insight and top tips to recreate elements of her favourite garden styles from the Edwardian and Renaissance eras.

Keep Calm and Garden-Share, albeit from a safe social-distance

We’re still going to be able to mutually benefit from the joys that garden-sharing can bring. However, we must all take extra precautions at the moment as the current uncertain situation unfolds.

Sharing, Money Saving, Local gardenersJoyce VehearyMarch 21, 2020Neighbours, communities in crisisComment

Travelling with Lend and Tend: How do people share gardens globally?

Looking at how people garden share across the globe, the answer to a lack of garden space could be under our nose!

Local gardeners, Sharing, Love of gardeningJoyce VehearyOctober 25, 2019Travelling

Garden-Share at Summer Pop-Up: The Beautiful Allotment

Open from Wednesday 25th July, until 26th August. Bourne and Hollingsworth have become the latest public space to get involved with Garden-Sharing.

OUR FRIENDS BLOGS: Join the ‘Tinder’ of gardening vs allotment waiting lists

Helen Taylor from The South West Londoner talks to Lend and Tend founder, Joyce Veheary about how you can join the ‘Tinder’ of gardening or face long allotment waiting lists.

👻 Garden Sharing doesn't have to be scary 👻

For Garden Owners who think gardening is a frightful task, take the hell out of horticulture by finding a helper. If you're in a garden-less hell-hole, sign up and share a garden on our site.

Sharing, SeasonalJoyce VehearyOctober 30, 2017Halloween, Pumpkins, fear of gardening, phobiasComment