Category: Gardening uk

This month, she and her garden are featured in the top British gardening magazine, Gardens Illustrated, popular with avid green thumbs through the U.K.. This happened after an Australian photographer took pictures of the garden and submitted them to …
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I recently went to the launch of Josie da Bank's new picnicware range (very pretty, see it at culturelabel.com). As you'd expect from the creative director/producer of the Isle of Wight music festival Bestival, the party was gorgeously decorated …
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Gardeners and cooks more than 100 years ago were using pot marigolds and orange blossom in their cooking. article_mpuAdvertisement. Today many fine restaurants around the UK and indeed the world are using more and more edible flowers to enhance salads …
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And how am I going to reach that?” my neighbour guffaws. We are looking up at a stray tendril, hovering temptingly between the ground and first floor, just out of reach. The rain has made everything grow so ridiculously, fairy-tale-beanstalk-tall this …
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Pinch out the growing tips of greenhouse tomato plants to encourage them to concentrate on ripening their existing fruit. Continue to feed plants in tubs and hanging baskets. Tie in new growths of dahlias and chrysanthemums. Disbud dahlias regularly …
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The Metropolitan Line was never part of the life I once lived in London. But I had one of the classic early posters issued by the railway, promoting the cosy domesticity of these outer suburbs: hollyhocks, delphiniums and a Shirley Temple-esque child …
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Some of the best-known gardens in Britain can be found here: The National Trust tends Vita Sackville-West's world-famous Sissinghurst and Winston Churchill's Chartwell, as well as the gardens of romantic historic properties such as Ightham Mote, Knole …
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A University College London (UCL) study has discovered that a moderate increase in exercise when you retire can make big improvements to your heart health.
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Great British delicacies will be on offer at the Dorney Court Kitchen Garden food fair. Locally produced meats, cheeses, organic breads, vegetables, cakes and drinks will be on offer at the free event between 10am-3pm at the Court Lane venue on Sunday, …
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People who live in the country are ''happier'' than those who live in towns, the Government assures us. It all depends what they mean by ''happy'', of course. ''Cows'', I used to say disparagingly, when I lived in the city, ''are happy''. Now I live in …
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… Inigo Jones gateway are just some of the treasures hidden among the specimen trees and latticework of pathways in this early example of English landscape gardening. Chiswick W4, 020-8742 3905, chgt.org.uk, gardens free, Chiswick House, £5.70/£3.40 …
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Boston is an amazing place with lots of history (much of it anti-British, what with the Tea Party, revolution and all that). While the family have a rest in the public garden (it's back up to 40C with a whopping thunderstorm on the way), I inspect the …
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Rent a deckchair (£1.50 per hour, £7 per day) in St James's Park (April to October) is just one of those lovely London things: even better with a picnic from Fortnum & Mason (www.fortnumandmason.com) or M&S over the road next to Green Park tube station.
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PATIENTS at North Staffordshire's main psychiatric hospital have won a string of awards – in a gardening competition.They worked with staff from wards at …
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BBC Radio for kids! Join Mr Bloom and CBeebies Radio for gardening games, gardening for kids and kids party games. Ben Faulks, childrens radio online.
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View all details on this Gardener vacancy on reed.co.uk, the UK's #1 job site. You can also search for all similar roles now. 21922496.
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… closing date for entries is noon on Friday August 31. Terms and conditions apply. Winners will also need to submit a picture of themselves with the prize. • 01889 271503; allett.co.uk. • For a gallery of great lawns to inspire you, see telegraph.co …
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Whether it was a huge garden with a rolling lawn and endless flower beds or just a small square of grass, a hanging basket or a window box, gardeners were urged to make the effort to help Tamworth again scoop gold in the Heart of England In Bloom …
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The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) encourages communities to get together gardening through the RHS Britain in Bloom campaign, neighbourhood awards …
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Hello fellow UK Veg Gardeners; Have you enjoyed looking at some of the photos I have posted to the forum? I hope so. Photos like these are the mainstay of …
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She also credits Christopher Lloyd, the now-deceased British garden guru who made Great Dixter famous, for showing through his books how to be “bold and playful” with colour combinations. “He was always so fearless in his planting and I loved the way …
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Fraser, who helped source plants for the garden when it was designed by Sam Martin in 2007, said: “There is a fantastic relationship between New Zealand plants and gardening in the UK. I hope the Savill Garden will inspire people to use New Zealand …
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(ITP). Gavin Foster has left his position as UK brand manager at ToyWatch and has been replaced by Attilio Foa in the position of UK managing director. Attilio has been with ToyWatch for three months. Foster is believed to be on gardening leave …
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“It is perhaps the most impressive private garden planted anywhere in California in the past decade – or more.” While Peg keeps cooking, John is finishing his third novel and, of course, gardening. The son of an Indian father and British mother, he …
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Study identifies link between good heart health and moderate exercise in retirees .
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Some even claimed to have found the Holy Grail and then guarded it with Fort Knox-type security. The ingredients were committed to memory and only one item was bought from the chemist before buying the next from another so that even the chemist did not …
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Sally Dynevor, Coronation Street's Sally Webster, opened the Corrie themed garden at this year's Southport Flower Show. A Weatherfield-themed show garden will be among the range of attractions enjoyed by more than 80000 visitors at the festival this …
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Blunsdon Village Garden Club is planning a coach trip to Wisley RHS garden on September 15, leaving from the village shop and Sam's Lane corner at 9.30am. The price to garden … Weybridge, Surrey. KT13 8DP |3223511| Registered in England & Wales …
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