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Top Gardening Blogs Award – UK Veg Gardeners

I’ve been shortlisted for a Top Gardening Blog Award in a vote that ends on 30th April. Looking at the other nominees, at first sight few, if any, are devo…
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Landscape Gardener (21493605) – reed.co.uk

View all details on this Landscape Gardener vacancy on reed.co.uk, the UK’s #1 job site. You can also search for all similar roles now. 21493605.
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Featured, National News – Spring Gardens In The UK | Parents News

All over the world, the spring season is celebrated as a time to get outside and enjoy improving weather and beautiful settings. One of the ways in which t.
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Better Homes and Gardens’ presenter Jason Hodges to create Australian Garden …

WILLOUGHBY’S Better Homes and Gardens presenter Jason Hodges has been asked to construct an Australian garden at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show in the UK. The world’s most famous show attracts visitors from all over the world, as well as the Queen … See all stories on this topic »

North Shore Times

Reasons to be cheerful

It’s not every year that the greatest show on earth comes to our backyard — and the Olympics are set to make this year a golden one for British sport. The prospect of home-grown heroes including Mo Farah (main image), Rebecca Adlington, Jessica Ennis, … See all stories on this topic »

The Sun

Gardening – Where to start? – Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

A simple question that doesn’t seem so simple when I look at my overgrown … You’ve already started. Clearing out the dead/overgrown vegetation is step #1.
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The garden that smells of curry and peanut butter

St Michael’s Junior School pupils and gardening club members(l to r) Josh Pilling, Kenzia and Alanya Rogerson and Toni Court in the new sensory garden. Photo by Simon Finlay Plants that smell of peanut butter are among the highlights of a Norwich …
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aniadabrowska.co.uk » Blog Archive » Handy Gardening Tools …

http://www.mcenergygroup.co.uk/about_us/. Any gardener needs to have a rake on hand. When you think of a rake you probably think of something with a long …
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Gardening is the only hobby where the costs aren’t growing

But there is one pastime that is bucking the trend – gardening. A review of leisure spending found that, while the costs of ten out of 11 activities studied had risen more quickly than inflation, the price of gardening had not. See all stories on this topic »

Daily Mail

The Galloping Gardener: Relentless rain gives much needed boost …

Constantly travelling around UK and further (when time allows). Always keen to hear about new garden projects and interesting landscapes. All photographs …
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Mental Health Column: Ewan Hilton on ending loneliness for older people

The 2006 UK Government report, A Sure Start to Later Life, stated that social isolation affects about one million older people, and has “a severe impact on people’s quality of life in older age”. It is estimated that 51% of all people aged over 75 live …
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Silver goodies at Asthma UK House and Garden Fair

Rebecca, a jeweller with seven years experience, uses traditional silversmithing techniques, and her most recent work has been inspired by Ladybird books, …
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Quiet gardens: time to sit and stare

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Quiet Garden Movement, founded to offer oases of calm in a noisy world. Three cheers, whispers Christopher Middleton. By Christopher Middleton When Michael and Janet Chapman sit in their country garden, … See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk

Love blossoms: The magnificent sight of a fruit tree in full blossom is the …

I remember flying to Argentina one April and being thoroughly confused by the orchards in full bloom while 24 hours earlier in the UK I’d seen exactly the same varieties covered in ripe fruit. Now is your chance to enter the Daily Mail Garden … See all stories on this topic »

Daily Mail

nextsteplondonwest.org.uk » Blog Archive » Handy Gardening Tools …

You can look at this as a solid base to from which to begin your gardening project . You might figure that you want to proceed without the use of some of these …
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The Garden of Evening Mists, By Tan Twan Eng

In the early 1950s, as a rebellious young prosecutor furious that the British rulers of Malaya have done so little to help victims of Japanese war crimes, she fled to the highlands to learn garden design from the shape-shifting Aritomo.
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Urban growth: A gardening guru is getting children hooked on the joys of …

He writes the gardening column for Jellied Eel, the magazine of the London Food Link. He's heavily involved in Capital Growth, the partnership launched by Boris Johnson and the LFL to provide 2012 new growing spaces in London by the end of the year.
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Ask Alys: your gardening questions answered

I'd mix it all together and then save a little of the new stuff to top-dress the planter. Mulch with something decorative, such as bark or pebbles, because this will help conserve moisture. • Got a question for Alys? Email askalys@guardian.co.uk Snail … See all stories on this topic »

The Guardian

10 of the most famous gardens in Britain

Perhaps there should be a phrase describing how highly English people (and Welsh, Irish and Scots people) adore their garden too. Here is a selection of ten of the most famous British gardens – ones many of us would love to own. 1.
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Where the wild things are: Richard Mabey's 'Food for Free' has Emma Townshend …

The next question is whether foraging can fit itself somewhere into our neat British idea of gardening. Grow your own was big business in the UK, but what about foraging? According to some people at our nearby allotments, foraging is just "helping …
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The Chelsea Collection Exclusively at Homebase

To win a pair of free all day passes to The Chelsea Flower Show for Saturday 26th May 2012 courtesy of Homebase, visit Amateur Gardening magazine. Homebase is one of the UK's leading home enhancement retailers and is recognised for choice, … See all stories on this topic »

PR Web (press release)

High quality garden equipment by Husqvarna

Husqvarna's innovative gardening technology, such as the Chainsaw 135, brings professional quality equipment to the home. By Helen Pickles A lawnmower that cuts the grass by itself; a hedge trimmer with no cables; a rider mower that turns on a sixpence … See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk

Cut the perfect lawn with Husqvarna's robotic technology

Take advantage of gardening equipment like Husqvarna's intelligent Automower so that you get to enjoy your garden while it does the work of mowing your lawn. By Helen Pickles The grass needs cutting. Again. You're spending so much time at work, … See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk

Finch: Water restrictions exist to protect aquifer levels

By Calvin R. Finch Stage 2 restrictions allow residents to water their lawns with sprinklers once a week on a designated day. Photo: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, Eaornelas@express-news.net / eaornelas@express-news.net Restriction-free lawn watering was good …
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The Chelsea Collection Exclusively at Homebase

To win a pair of free all day passes to The Chelsea Flower Show for Saturday 26th May 2012 courtesy of Homebase, visit Amateur Gardening magazine. Homebase is one of the UK's leading home enhancement retailers and is recognised for choice, … See all stories on this topic »

PR Web (press release)

High quality garden equipment by Husqvarna

Husqvarna's innovative gardening technology, such as the Chainsaw 135, brings professional quality equipment to the home. By Helen Pickles A lawnmower that cuts the grass by itself; a hedge trimmer with no cables; a rider mower that turns on a sixpence … See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk

Cut the perfect lawn with Husqvarna's robotic technology

Take advantage of gardening equipment like Husqvarna's intelligent Automower so that you get to enjoy your garden while it does the work of mowing your lawn. By Helen Pickles The grass needs cutting. Again. You're spending so much time at work, … See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk

Finch: Water restrictions exist to protect aquifer levels

By Calvin R. Finch Stage 2 restrictions allow residents to water their lawns with sprinklers once a week on a designated day. Photo: EDWARD A. ORNELAS, Eaornelas@express-news.net / eaornelas@express-news.net Restriction-free lawn watering was good …
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Ken Livingstone plans gardening leave as his campaign prepares for defeat

Ken Livingstone today said he was simply thinking about doing a spot of gardening as he faced the prospect of defeat in the mayoral election. The Labour candidate told the Standard that he is just hoping it doesn't rain this weekend, as sources in his … See all stories on this topic »

Evening Standard

Gardens: Chelsea Fringe festival

In cities across the UK, gardening has become a community building tool and an outlet for designers and artists. Urban growing and activism are most definitely entwined – creating new green spaces, especially edible ones, often has quietly political … See all stories on this topic »

The Guardian

Perennial vegetables: a treat for tastebuds

Martin Crawford, who runs the Agroforestry Research Trust (agroforestry.co.uk) in Devon, grows and experiments with all sorts of perennial crops. The edible gardens are open to the public, and he has just written How to Grow Perennial Vegetables (Green … See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk

Minnesota man arrested while mowing lawn in loincloth, swearing …

Before the lawn mowing incident, he had already been cited for making harassing phone calls, including calling the Fergus Falls Police Department and …
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