Category: Gardening uk

All employers should introduce the option of a four-day working week, with gardening promoted as a beneficial way of using the extra time, it has been suggested. Spending less time in the office and gardening both have a range of benefits, and a scheme …
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Not your standard vehicle to pull up to the hotel car park … Photograph: Phil Voice. If you think mowing to the end of your garden is far enough, spare a thought for Phil Voice who currently has his foot to the floor in a ride-on mower, covering the …
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If you want something different, even though white pumpkin seeds are harder to come by in the UK, Pumpkin Lumina or Full Moon will give you a ghostly white pumpkin with orange flesh. And if you're feeling really ambitious try the huge Pumpkin Dills …
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Contact: 020 7240 2078; mishkins.co.uk. Price: Three courses with a cocktail/wine and coffee: about £30 per head #. Two Jewish fellas, Abe and Hymie, are in front of a firing squad, and the Gestapo captain screams, “Have you any last requests before …
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The combined cost of physical inactivity, poor diet and mental ill-health in the UK runs into tens of billions of pounds. In a single activity can gardening alleviate all three problems, reducing the need for some public services and increasing our …
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In all, eight UK accents were tried, plus American and Australian ones. Class barrier: Episodes of Made in Chelsea (cast pictured) were used for upper-class tones and the plants on the receiving end … Mr Bonnett, who runs the Gardening Express …
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RESIDENTS of a Grimsby road have called for drivers to slow down after a collision forced a car off the road, through a garden wall and into a house – just minutes after the resident's elderly mother was on the doorstep. A silver Nissan Micra and a …
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However in a revelation that came as a surprise to some of her own staff, but will be greeted with delight by gardeners and Irishmen alike, she disclosed yesterday that she has tried growing her own spuds at home. The Duchess's hitherto hidden interest …
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While many commercial apple producers have had poor crops this year because the incessant early rain deterred bees from pollinating the blossom, ordinary gardeners may have had more success. An apple flower can't be fertilised by pollen from the same …
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While the fall in the number of visits was noted through England and Scotland, the London area apparently took the greatest hit. Summer visitor numbers to “garden” and “leisure” sites were 21 percent lower than usual, followed closely by the “heritage …
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Spending less time in the office and gardening both have a range of benefits, and a scheme to provide a shorter working week and space for growing plants and food could “provide the answer to every headline problem at the moment”, it was claimed.
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A 93-year-old woman was burgled by a man who tricked his way into her west Hull home. A man turned up at the woman's bungalow in Woburn Street and walked in before the woman had opened her front door, offering to do some gardening. ​ Humberside …
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Arthritis Research UK and award-winning landscape and garden designer Tom Hoblyn are to stage one of the major show gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower …
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Snow-clearing services. Grounds maintenance services. Ice-clearing services. Directive 2004/18/EC. Section I: Contracting authority. I.1) Name, addresses and …
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William Cook, originator of my Orpington hens, wrote, “It has been my aim to produce breeds suitable for the production of eggs and fowl as articles of food, and these as handsome as it is possible to make them, and in the Diamond Jubilee Fowl, I think …
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“For gardens and outdoor attractions across the UK, the appalling weather during much of the year has led to one of the worst trading periods since 2001 – the year of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.” The figures correlate with data released by the …
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The Schools campaign aims to inspire young children and their families to discover the benefits of growing plants by helping 100 schools across the UK embrace gardening every year. Stewart Garden products, including propagators, seed trays, plant pots, …
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At the Botanic Garden we are privileged to look after one of the best tree collections in the region. The towering evergreen cedars, redwoods and pines together with limes, tulip trees, walnuts and wingnuts form the backbone of the landscape. Some of …
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It will be held in the educational greenhouse in the David Welch Winter Gardens. Booking is essential by calling Duthie Park outreach and training officer Arthur Gill on 12224 585310 ext 24 or e-mailing argill@aberdeencity.gov.uk. Future workshops are …
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“It is our belief that for gardens and outdoor attractions across the UK, the appalling weather during much of the year has led to one of the worst trading periods since 2001 – the year of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. “For London attractions, the …
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Illustrated talk by Marcus Dancer, organised by Clanfield Gardening Club. Visitors and new members welcome. clanfieldgardeningclub.org.uk. FAREHAM: Ferneham Hall, Osborn Road. 7.30pm. Return to Titanic. Presentation by Rory Golden. Admission £10.
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“If you love your garden, you really can't just abstain.” That's what the delightfully named Brit celeb gardener Bob Flowerdew says about a life without peat moss.
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An elderly couple proved their stupendous gardening skills by growing the largest, healthiest cannabis plant that cops from Bedfordshire, U.K., have ever seen. The green-thumbed oldsters had purchased the pretty shrub at a tag sale, planted it in an …
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Directive 2004/18/EC. Section I: Contracting authority. I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s). For the attention of: Telephone: Fyne Homes 81 Victoria Street, …
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Here are some other compliments that I jotted down, while waiting for my friends to arrive for dinner: England at its best; quiet; reassuring; tucked away; secret garden and lovely terrace; croquet; dahlias; divine hedge; timeless. “Divine hedge …
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Welcome to Garden King's Plant Doctor Blog, where our experts discuss and answer all your gardening questions. This week I'm talking about harvesting the last of your tomato crop, sowing over-wintering onions and jobs for the garden. Hello – are we all …
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One of the soggiest summers on record couldn't drown the party spirit but the after-effects are rather more of a curate's egg. Pumpkins hate the wet and cold, which could make for a tame Hallowe'en (unless you suck up the supermarket airmiles). Yet …
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The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is reserved for plants of outstanding garden-worthiness. That is, they are excellent for ordinary use in appropriate conditions. Look out for the AGM logo on plant labels and visit rhs.org.uk/agmplants for more …
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Two full-time gardeners, Brett Moore and Roseanne Wheeler, ensure that the tiny island looks its best from April to October, and as well as the sub-tropical plants, there's a wealth of wildflowers – dog roses, foxgloves and rare orchids. Perhaps the …
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Organisation: Tameside Oldham and Glossop Mind. Salary: £12,614 gross. Reference: AGM. Location: Tameside, Greater Manchester. Hours: Part Time …
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