GET PRUNING AND SHREDDING FOR AUTUMN TIDY-UP TIME

GET PRUNING AND SHREDDING FOR AUTUMN TIDY-UP TIME

Bosch (www.bosch-pt.co.uk) makes a cordless garden saw, the Bosch Keo, that easily cuts through branches up to about three inches (8cm) thick, which is particularly good for those whose hands are not that strong. For extra stability there's a …
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Landscape Gardener in Hanley Swan, Worcester (UK) – G&A …

G&A Garden Services offers Landscape Gardening and Fencing Services to clients throughout Malvern and the surrounding areas.
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Cornwall Garden Society – Spring Flower Show 2013 sponsored by

Spring Flower Show 2013 sponsored by. The 2013 Cornwall Spring Flower Show will take place at Boconnoc, nr. Lostwithiel on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 April.
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We're busy collecting garden 'black gold'

We're busy collecting garden 'black gold'

If you would like to know more about trees and how to look out for dieback on Ash Trees go to the Forestry Commission website at www.forestry.gov.uk or The Woodland Trust at www.woodlandtrust.org. Roses – November is an ideal month for planting bare …
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Garden cuttings, November 18 The Sunday Times

Learn how to plant and care for a tree at RHS Garden Rosemoor, in Devon, on Wednesday, 11am. £18 (RHS members £10); 01805 626800, rhs.org.uk …
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The best plants for autumn colour in your garden

To find an arboretum in your county, visit britainsfinest.co.uk. The gardens at Mount Ephraim house at Hernhill near Faversham, Kent ME13 9TX are usually closed during winter, but Telegraph readers are welcome any day between 10am and 5pm. There is …
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Gifts WE want for Christmas!

Gifts WE want for Christmas!

Peta UK (Practical Ergonomic and Therapeutic Aids) designs, manufactures and supplies tools, aids and assistive devices for sufferers of arthritis and other conditions resulting in reduced grip strength. Its tools have recently been tested by Thrive, a …
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Splash of colour for the winter

GARDENING ANYTHING that provides colour and interest to the garden at this dour time of year — other than the falling leaves — is a real bonus. One such choice is Juniperous, which, in its low-growing forms, provides pleasing and trouble-free ground …
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'How I fell in love with Alan Titchmarsh'

I think I might be going a bit granny doolally where Alan Titchmarsh is concerned. It could be the signs of impending old age, because I didn't always love the Titch. For a start, he appeared on my TV radar just after the tragic death of committedly …
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Early Christmas party at garden centre

Early Christmas party at garden centre

CORNWALL folk are invited to join Mr and Mrs Christmas to celebrate the start of the festive season this weekend. There's a range of activities at Par Garden Centre as part of its free Christmas fair weekend raising money for the Meningitis Trust …
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The ash tree matters because of its history in our landscape

It was grimly amusing to read a BBC News online story this week asking, “Why has ash disease gripped [the] nation's attention?” To the political punditocracy there is apparently something odd about the fact that people care more about the health of …
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Viggo, gorgeous and pretty, pothole gardening

I started in cricket journalism in the UK in 2001. One day in Lord's press box, an elderly cricket hack called Norman de Mesquita decided I had 'taken his job'. He started a campaign of muttering in the press box, which Selvey and others joined in. I …
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Gardening website help – Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

Gardening website help – Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

“Gardening website help?” – Find the answer to this question and millions more on Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers.
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Forget weedkiller and learn to love weeding

I could rant that the British Garden Retail Awards decided to celebrate a product from an American multinational, or I could rage about Monsanto's involvement with GMOs, or for that matter Scotts Miracle-Gro's own less-than-ethical recent history: this …
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How to ferment autumn vegetables

Sometimes it's difficult to know what to do with certain vegetables at this time of year. Not so much the cabbages, parsnip, kale and leeks – they'll be fine outside whatever the weather – but there are others that don't last so well in the frost and …
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Guerilla gardener plants beautiful miniature flowerbeds in potholes blighting …

Guerilla gardener plants beautiful miniature flowerbeds in potholes blighting …

Other pictures compiled for a quirky book of mini-gardens planted in potholes across Britain's capital include a tiny Mini Cooper car in a royal garden with red-coated soldier, an iconic telephone box and the priceless reactions of real Londoners …
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Bristol University News from the University Botanic Garden

Professor Nigel Dunnett, one of the team behind the UK's largest ever man-made wildflower meadows at the Olympic Park, will be in Bristol tomorrow [Thursday …
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Bloom team's year off

THE Bay may be beautiful but it won't be blooming, after organisers decided not to enter a gardening competition – despite a bumper crop of prizes this year. The town is not eligible to enter Britain in Bloom next year after it was judged top coastal …
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Ferns – Hardy Garden Fern Plants

Ferns – Hardy Garden Fern Plants

An extremely classy selection of easy to grow, decorative ferns that give exciting contrast in foliage, form and colour.
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1500 Garden Gift Vouchers to be won

Enter our superb contest and you could win a present that will keep on giving. Today's £1,500 of voucher prizes to celebrate Gift Card & Voucher Week (November 10-17) are from sponsor National Garden Gift Vouchers. They join Debenhams, H.Samuel and …
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November Photo Competition – UK Veg Gardeners

There have been some cracking images uploaded to UK Veg over the last few months – so I thought why not have a photo competition. To enter simply upload …
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Watch out for waxwings

Watch out for waxwings

We're having a waxwing winter, apparently. Speaking on BBC Radio 4 programme Saving Species, the BTO's Paul Stancliffe reported that up to 3,000 of the birds are already in the country, and one Shetland blogger had up to 50 in his garden at once – he …
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Planting the Olympic Park

One of the team behind the UK's largest ever man-made wildflower meadows will be in Bristol tomorrow [Thursday 15 November] to talk about the processes leading up to those magical few weeks this summer. Visitors to the Olympic Park were enchanted …
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The thrill of wildlife in our gardens

GARDENING for wildlife is now commonplace, although it often gets overlooked, and yet it is a multi-million pound business which reflects how well it has caught on. I was thinking of this when I set out from the house to replenish the various feeders …
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Tristan's off to a green and pleasant land

Tristan's off to a green and pleasant land

He hopes to learn much on his UK trip. “I'm hoping to get some work experience in some gardens over there. “There are some gardens in England that are 200 or 300 years old — we don't have that in Australia.” Tweet. Print StorySave …
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Do imports for 'instant gardening' drive tree disease

“Landscape architects and garden designers specify these larger trees of all species because of the Instant Garden Syndrome, people want to have this immediate impact in their gardens and are not prepared buy whips that can grow and establish …
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Landscape Gardener in Kensington, London (UK) – Green Rooms …

Detailed information on Green Rooms Gardening Services and other Landscape Gardeners in Kensington, London.
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Gardeners, florists named UK's happiest workers: 90% of – CapitalBay

Gardeners, florists named UK's happiest workers: 90% of – CapitalBay

By Paul Sims. PUBLISHED: 20:57 EST, 12 November 2012 | UPDATED: 04:47 EST, 13 November 2012. It may be cold, wet and windy outside and the garden …
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Give wildlife a warm welcome

More products targeted at the wild bird market are available in garden centres and we can choose feeding regimes which will attract birds that we most want to see in our gardens, says the HTA, the trade association for the UK garden industry. Indeed …
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2012 RHS Show Cardiff RHS Gardening

Welcome to the 2012 RHS Show Cardiff with Show Gardens, exhibits, tradestands, cafes and restaurants.
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