Category: Gardening uk

As the days shorten and summer's great flowering begins to dwindle, the plants of gardens, fields and hedgerows are getting ready to ensure the next generation, developing capsule collections of diverse seed shapes and ingenious dispersal methods.
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Hi Im a hard working and reliable English backpacker with gardening and landscaping experience, Looking for part timecasual work to help fund my traveling …
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The royal couple shook hands with people before touring the air-conditioned Cloud Forest at the Gardens, which contains plant life from mountainous regions. Catherine … Singapore residents were delighted to get an opportunity to see British royals.
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No one is complaining about the results of UK's fast-forward approach, which has averaged 2.91 snaps per minute through two games – just ahead of Oregon's pace last season. The more urgent, aggressive style has yielded one of the nation's most prolific …
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Stewart, the UK manufacturer and distributor of gardening products, catering supplies and homewares, has completed the development of its new facility at Banbury as it moves from its Croydon home of 67 years. The move follows a nine-month site …
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The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng, Swimming Home by Deborah Levy and The Lighthouse by Alison Moore are also on the shortlist. It is completed by Hilary Mantel's Bring Up The Bodies, the sequel to her 2009 Booker winner Wolf Hall. It is the …
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With more than 60 different pennisetum available to buy in the UK, deciding what to grow is not easy. If you can, head out to a garden with a decent collection so you can see a number of the different varieties in full flight – the Royal Horticultural …
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The cloudburst illustrates neatly what may have been the biggest impediment in recent years to dedicated gardeners like 76-year-old Bill – the apparent demise of our once glorious British summer. Like many of the competitors who took part in this year …
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And four Plymouth residents took home awards in gold, silver and bronze. Keen gardeners Alan and Linda Wingate, from Plymouth, picked up the gold award for the Large Garden, Floral Content, Vegetable/Fuit Patches and Wildlife Garden categories.
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Alan Titchmarsh creates dazzling one-pot wonders | Gardening | – Alan Titchmarsh gardening and food growing tips.
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B&Q owner Kingfisher says the wettest summer in 100 years cost the group £30m in profit as demand for gardening and outdoor maintenance plunged. The FTSE 100 company, which also owns tools supplier Screwfix as well as Castorama and Brico Depot in …
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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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The centre is expected to attract a wide range of visitors who want to learn about the 600-year history of the allotments, off Hungerhill Road, which are the oldest and largest area of Victorian detached town gardens in the UK. The project is the last …
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… the more ebullient members of the team.” • Logie, Forres, IV36 2QN, is open daily until the end of October and again from the end of March. Go online to find details of gardening and other courses such as bee keeping and basket making (www.logie.co …
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New additions include a sound garden and a sunken garden, its beds a showcase for dye plants grouped according to their colour. horniman.ac.uk. Battersea Park's Old English Garden has reopened after a recent transformation by people with disabilities …
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… Bricklayers Dainage work Fencing services Garden clearance Garden fencing Garden makeovers … www.bensondriveways.co.uk Essex/kent/london Picture 1 …
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Its latest State of the Nation report, reveals that more than 15 million Britons have cut back on home support services such as dog walking, cleaning, ironing or gardening, jobs that are typically paid for in cash. One in three British adults (32 …
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Walsh, who is now on gardening leave, became part of the pan-European distributor's management team in 2009 following its acquisition of Arc Technology, where he was also sales director. He briefly took … He reported to UK sales director Jason Dance.
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Soggy weather in late spring and early summer created ideal breeding conditions for the garden pests, softening the ground for males to dig tunnels just below the surface in search of mates. A recent survey found that in one area, Basingstoke, Hants …
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I wrote last week about hardy annuals to sow outside now for a good show early next year. This is a reminder. If you are sowing direct outside, scatter seed as …
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