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Before being shown orchids named after Margaret Thatcher and their grandmother The Queen during the 20 minute visit, the couple met a number or gardeners and scientists who help design the orchids. Manager Alan Tan Chye Soon, 42, had been involved …
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It serves as the qualifying event for London in Bloom, which in turn leads to a UK-wide competiton. But Mrs Jefferies says she just hopes that her garden serves as a reminder that getting outdoors and turning whatever space there is available into a …
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Anyone interested in horticultural, botanical art, floristry and other related courses at Ness Gardens starting in September can go to our website at www.nessgardens.org.uk or call 0845 030 4063 (local rate charges apply) for details. Gardener's …
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Tributes have been paid to a keen gardener and former steel worker, who has died aged 83. Arthur Beacroft, of Wressle, was well-known in the Broughton area for his passion for gardening and vegetable produce. He died at Scunthorpe General Hospital on …
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When I first owned a garden, I bought plants as if it were highly likely that my 10ft-wide plot would at some point concertina out into full National Trust-size double herbaceous borders. Nice big fat borders with glorious exotics such as honey spurge …
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The cash has ben donated by the North of England Horticultural Society, as part of a scheme to support local gardening projects or activities. The society organises Harrogate Flower Shows twice a year, in spring and autumn, at the Great Yorkshire …
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Strangely, I know some gardeners who hack the whole lot in autumn – and get the same results. So, prune when you please, unless you're growing B globosa, which blooms on last season's wood, as does B alternifolia, which should be pruned in midsummer …
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The directive allows for reduced VAT in several areas including water, food, audio books, restaurant service, gardening, nappies and energy itself – but not energy-saving products. That is even though the commission's energy policy is to improve …
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A leading forestry owner has warned the nation's trees are under threat from diseases being brought into Britain as a result of the booming interest in horticulture and gardening. William Theed, whose Brendon Hill forests in Somerset were the first in …
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