Category: Gardening uk

Which brings me to prairie gardening. If you're not familiar with this flavour-of-the-month style of gardening type “drift garden” and “prairie garden” into Google and click “images”, or go direct to www.sussexprairies.co.uk and planobluestem.blogspot …
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DICKLEBURGH, England — For Britain's legion of gardeners, peat has long been as essential to gardening as beer is to the corner pub. So trowels flew after the British government — heeding environmental concerns — announced plans to gradually …
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Tom Hoblyn begins a search for Europe's finest trees and goes wild with rhododendrons.
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I have volunteered to do this blog because I love gardening and want to take any opportunity to promote causes that I support. For the vast majority of my life I have promoted and supported the allotment movement in the UK. Over the coming months I …
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They hope that this, possibly the first large scale garden at a British spinal unit, will be copied by many others. For that to happen, one element will be vital, as Tina Crossley, 50, the head gardener, was the first to admit: “Without the volunteers …
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The trust is running a taster day on Wednesday, October 17, from 10am until 3pm, during which there will be a “garden blitz” with pruning, weeding, hedge-cutting and making good footpaths. People should … For details visit worcswildlifetrust.co.uk …
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Keeping house plants is a skill that you either possess or don't. I've come to that conclusion after long contemplation. Mostly, contemplating why my house looks from the outside as though some keen members of the Territorial Army have been practising …
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A garden project in Cornwall is teaching people how to grow and prepare their own food as well as encouraging them to gain formal qualifications to help take up volunteering and employment. The Malabar Food Hub project was developed by CN4C and …
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Sales Office Assistant in Burton-on-Trent from Gardening Delights Ltd | JobsNow. co.uk.
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Super-sized spuds, monster marrows and colossal cabbages will be among the giant vegetables of all shapes and sizes coming to the Autumn Show at the East of England Showground in Peterborough. Growers from all over the country – as well as from …
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This weekend, a strange but attractive cast of radical gardeners from Manhattan, allotment activists from Brixton, edgy architects and visionary urbanists will assemble in London's Garden Museum to ponder the answer. New York famously has one, a …
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We were able to track down the author in the U.K. and make him digitally submit to a few questions. Colorado at Home: What's in your shed, for real? C.T. Grey: Just the usual things, really — my gardening tools, a set of golf clubs, several tins of …
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With all foraged leaves, stick to the youngest specimens and pick only where it's pesticide, weedkiller and dog-free. For more on homegrown leaves, look for the hashtag #saladchat on Twitter and visit vegplotting.blogspot.co.uk. Print this · Share …
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By dzisekerti – Posted on 01 October 2012. All that worthy payday loans rules does an individual actually have? Don't order photos twofold! If or when your …
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Matt Baker, host of BBC TV's The One Show, presented the awards, held in St Peter Port, Guernsey and attended by 450 community gardening champions. More than 1,200 UK communities, from big cities to tiny villages, participate each year in the RHS …
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Hi my name is Richard im 24 from the uk im a very hard worker and reliable and im looking for some labouring work i will work weekends please contactact me .
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Pike's Cottage, for sale for the first time in more than 20 years, is an idyllic hideaway for gardeners and is set at the end of a long un-metalled track and offers a wonderful opportunity to renovate and extend this unique cottage set within 16 acres …
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hi all iv took some cuttings for the first time from rosemary and lavender and curry plant and they have rooted and are growing quite well they are in my …
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Let raspberries run riot | Gardening | – Alan Titchmarsh gardening and food growing tips.
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Continue to plant daffodil bulbs to naturalise in grass. The best tool for this job is a long-handled bulb planter. Deep yellow 'Golden Harvest', creamy white 'Mount Hood' and the pink-tinged 'Mrs RO Backhouse' all continue to flower well after 10 …
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RHS Britain in Bloom is the biggest voluntary campaign in the UK and works to improve people's lives through community gardening. Matt Baker, presenter of BBC TV's The One Show, hosted the prestigious RHS Britain in Bloom Award Ceremony held in St …
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I have only posted this on my Youtube page because it is the only way I can get it onto Facebook, as the file is too large to post directly. I don't expect y…
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The traditional garden has been tipped on its head. Metro takes a closer look at the phenomenon of the vertical garden.
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gardening tasks for october. … A Survival site with a UK bias. CommentsPosts · Home; Welcome to Survival UK. Welcome to Survival UK · What is this site about …
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Gardeners of all ages were congratulated on their growing skills, from gardens and hanging baskets to sunflowers and vegetables. Master of ceremonies, Councillor Malcolm Moyle, chairman of the parish council, said: “This is the third time we've held …
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The estate's youth organisation teamed up with volunteers to revamp the Royal British Legion base in Alwyn Close. More than 60 young people donned their overalls to take part in the project, which included the centre's Garden of Remembrance being given …
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Hi By Rob Middleton Tuesday 2 October 2012 An illegal immigrant from Vietnam who was trafficked into the UK was discovered running a cannabis fact…
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… is understood to have taken voluntary redundancy ahead of mass lay-offs at the wobbling tech titan. Murphy, who joined HP in April 2011 months after resigning from his position as UK chief at HDS, is believed to be one of more than 150 people the …
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“The real victims in this 'new approach to gardening' are the unsuspecting punters. Who does the talking-up for gardening at these discussions when the big decisions are made? Who keeps themselves informed about this UK-wide multi billion pound …
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The RHS is offering free soil testing of four samples (to everyone, not just members) till the end of October (see rhs.org.uk). Even on my alkaline (pH8) soil, the continual addition of compost increases the acidity, so adding lime (usually in winter …
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