Category: Gardening uk

Some gardeners are apprehensive about growing their own, but there's no reason to be. People have been growing their own food from the very moment they decided to stay in one place and put down roots. When you sow your first beans or plant out your …
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Helen Yemm shares her planting plans for the containers in her garden in 2013.
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Shortlisted for Best Website of the Year (for thinkingardens.co.uk), I'm delighted to get away from our soggy November garden and the computer screen, scrub up for the big event and trek off up to London. And, as at all the best parties, I am greeted …
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The world's top garden designers will be celebrating 100 years of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2013 with a mixture of old and new, demonstrating the glories of the past and the gardens of the future. Award-winning Chelsea stalwart Roger Platts, who …
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Gardeners across the country will have the chance to test their knowledge at a celebrity-set, nationwide gardening quiz in March. Top TV gardeners have voiced …
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So, another gardening year to notch up on the gatepost of life. Will it become the stuff of legend like 1976, when a long hot summer saw standpipes in the street, the nation's parched lawns went brown and even the most conservative of be-sandalled …
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SuperNemos (nemo.ie) Bio-Insecticide which was invented in a garden shed in Ireland, has just been shortlisted in the prestigious '2012 Best Gardening …
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For those steering garden restorations, these are exciting times. Not only are research methods more sophisticated – field archaeology is now routinely used and tools such as aerial photography reveal historical features – but the amount of money …
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It's been a tough year for garden wildlife, so follow my lead at Glebe Cottage and make a few changes to help the visitors thrive. Our gardens are important. In fact, they're vital. About 90 per cent of homes in the UK have gardens, which, together …
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Quince might not be as beautiful as some fruit, but it makes delicious jellies and. Quince Crate. Price: £35. The Gluttonous Gardener (020 7627 0800; glut.co.uk).
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The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) encourages communities to get together gardening through the RHS Britain in Bloom campaign, this page contains …
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The popularity of shows such as Gardener's World has lead to a surge in applications for allotments, with waiting lists running to over a decade in some areas of the UK. Consumers are attracted to a romantic ideal of growing and cooking their own …
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Oh dear, we television gardeners have misled the nation. Looking after an allotment is apparently not nearly as easy as we make out and, as a result, hundreds of gardeners, whose plots have run away with them, are being evicted by councils up and down …
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Hi Abbey Hulton drug 'gardener' had 100 cannabis plants Friday, December 21, 2012 By Sentinel Reporter A COCAINE user who tended to canna…
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Many gardens have already been covered by a layer of snow in the last month or so and more may be on the way.
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But they have drawn the ire of gardening groups who say they make cultivating vegetables look too easy, and are to blame for thousands of allotment holders being evicted from their unkempt plots. Many amateur gardeners have moved on to allotments as a …
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For many years, hauntings terrified members of staff on a regular basis – I remember one gardener saying he simply refused to lock up the garden at night on his own. Finally, director Tim Smit alluded to the ghosts, and an attempted exorcism. A link is …
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The Garden Museum in London has hundreds of historic images of gardeners, but most are described by the director as “looking a bit battered and sad” and not one of them is black. Its newly acquired painting of a handsome man leaning on his spade …
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Steve Wheen shows BBC News how to make a 'pothole garden' with a Christmas theme.
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Shows such as Love Your Garden and Gardeners' World has led to many people taking on allotments without realising the hard work needed to grow vegetables, experts say. This has seen …. StillwaterBlue, Durham, UK, 19/12/2012 5:43…Growing your own …
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One of the best things I did as a young gardener with a growing family was join the Hardy Plant Society, a charity set up after the Second World War to promote the cultivation of “hardy herbaceous plants”. Admittedly, I joined to get free seeds from …
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WITH just a few weeks left to buy Christmas presents, you'll be relieved to know there are dozens of gifts the gardener in your life will be delighted to receive.
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Click for larger image. Something amazing happened this past spring. I contacted nurseries to see if they could help with a little fundraiser I was organizing for …
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The shears come with two different types of blades so you can effortlessly keep box topiary or leafy shrubs in shape, or trim small but awkward-to-reach sections of lawn. www.bosch-garden.co.uk. If you're buying for somebody new to gardening, Cargo has …
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We are looking for experienced helpers in decorating, maintenance skills and gardening to work from February-May 2013 for 2 to 10 week stays to help us …
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SEASONAL GARDENER required at WELEDA (UK) Derbyshire. Posted December 12, 2012. On our 15 acre field we grow more than 150 species of medicinal …
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Press Release issued Dec 10, 2012: With a growing and ever-congested city, many in North London demand the privacy that affords a break from their urban …
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Swindon Garden Centre on Hyde Road in Stratton St Margaret is hosting the quiz in aid of the NSPCC on Tuesday, December 18 from 7pm-10.30pm. Centre manager Lewis Fox said: “We have hosted quiz nights at the garden centre before and they have …
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It doesn't matter whether the gardener on your Christmas shopping list has a green thumb or black, works a four-acre garden or is a windowsill herb planter; these tools will help make their victory garden a winner. Koubachi K001 Wi-Fi Plant Sensor …
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