Category: Gardening uk

Love them or hate them, wood pigeons are starting to rule the roost in towns and cities across the UK. The bigger and hungrier cousin of the urban pigeon is being spotted in gardens in record numbers, with suburban lawns and bird tables particularly …
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Photographer Kate Gadsby used to garden a three-acre plot in Norfolk; now she can see her entire garden – all five metres (16ft) by 10 metres (33ft) of it – from her kitchen window, spot any jobs that need doing while she's having her breakfast, and …
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If your head's not spinning this month, you're not doing it right. We dig up scrummy potatoes, then double-dig elsewhere; clean greenhouse seed trays of debris only to fill them again with the seeds of future booty; divide old perennials and plant the new.
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… published in the International Journal of Cancer and funded by Cancer Research UK. The research shows that even moderate exercise can help, the charity said. “Exercise can include anything that leaves you slightly out of breath like doing the …
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Meanwhile, in the stunning setting of Bennett's Water Garden in Dorset – designed to replicate the splendor of the grounds of Claude Monet's former home in Giverny, France – owner John Bennet, basked in the September rays. Mr Bennett, who holds the UK …
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An active lifestyle can help protect against developing cancer, study of link between physical activity and the disease confirms.
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It was the opening night of Africa Weekend at the Royal Opera House, a weekend-long celebration of African culture encompassing art, film, dance and music, curated by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare. Friday's performance was a glitzy way to get …
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Traditional Greenhouses, Glasshouses and Conservatories by Hartley Botanic. Made in England.
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And, over the weekend, thousands of art lovers, families and interested visitors flocked to Sheffield's Botanical Gardens for the ninth annual Art in the Gardens festival. Highlights included live folk, jazz and soul music; a craft market; the chance …
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Crocuses have unobtrusive, grassy foliage; colchicums don't produce any leaves until spring but when these emerge, they're big and broad with hefty seed capsules perched at the tops of the stems. So when your gardening book or bulb catalogue gives the …
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Swarms of visitors from the city and beyond made their way to the biggest show of its kind in Scotland to pick up some gardening tips, sample the great local produce on offer and catch a glimpse of this year's headliners …
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How to get $100m, that's the question. People claiming to be top Nigerian businessmen take one well-known route. There's also, of course, Euromillions. You never know your luck. Or finally, like Joshua David and Robert Hammond – who quite fancied …
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The event was held at the indoor Market Hall in Northampton Road, Harborough, on the August Bank Holiday Monday. Show secretary kath Outram said: “Although the number of entries was down compared with last year, due to the peculiar weather we have …
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Rather than investing time in the autumn to plan their gardens and put plants into the ground then, gardeners are waiting until the spring to buy them when they are already beginning to bloom and look more attractive. This, the RHS says, is not only …
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Wednesday 29 August 2012. Autumn Plant Fair at RHS Garden Harlow Carr. Now is the time to get some autumn colour into your garden and start planning for …
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I fenced the garden and tried again. Then – after so many failures, now long forgotten – I eventually bit the bullet and decided that hybrid vigour was needed. Or at least sizeable plants rather than my seedlings. I also concluded that, in a wet …
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French police launched a murder investigation after bloodstains were found in the cottage and a car belonging to Ms Wilson's gardener, Jean-Louis Cayrou, 50. Patricia Wilson, who vanished from her home in a small French village of Vabre Tizac. Patricia …
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French police investigating the suspected murder of a British expatriate by her French lover have made a DNA breakthrough. Patricia Wilson, 58, mysteriously vanished from her cottage in the picturesque village of Vabre-Tizac, near Toulouse, last month.
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www.wmgardenservices.co.uk Offering Garden / Landscape Services throughout the West Midlands. Free Quotes available Professional services with qualified …
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The National Gardening Show is an ideal day out for gardening fans – the event showcases the finest in Autumn gardening, with lots of features that are …
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Now it is fast becoming Britain's most common garden bird. The British Trust for Ornithology says it is being seen in suburban gardens more often than robins, great tits or house sparrows. Results from the year-round BTO Garden BirdWatch survey show …
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National Garden Show Anyone paying a visit to the show this weekend? Just South of Bristol and up the road from Wincanton on the A303 Not as big as a …
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The Daily Mirror recently carried an article by Diarmuid Gavin. It shows how guerrilla gardeners have transformed public spaces in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, …
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For most of us, most of the time, thistles are one of the more annoying weeds and this year they have been especially bad, in my own garden at least. Earlier in the … A Horsetail or mare's tail, Equisetum arvense, is one of the most recalcitrant …
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This year the early Bank Holidays, so crucial to garden-centre business, were cold and wet, and gardeners lost the impulse to buy. Sales of bedding plants were badly hit, although water butts, slug pellets, weed and moss killers did phenomenally well.
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There are also a number of events in Wales to celebrate Organic September and numerous organic farms and gardens to visit all-year-round, including Penpont in Brecon (www.penpont.com), Maes y Beran Farm in Llanthony (www.llanthony-valley.co.uk) …
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The popular event, organised by the Wyre Forest committee of Cancer Research UK, is being held at the Garden Room, Stone Manor Hotel, Kidderminster, on Wednesday, September 12. The expert panel will feature regulars Paul Cook, of Cook's Nurseries, …
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The 200 schools who have registered for our Salad Days package, provided free by the British Leafy Salads Association, should expect delivery shortly. Please note each packet in this posting contains enough seeds to sow the free pots, a trough or grow …
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The prize for success in Hayes is a place at the national final at the O2 Arena in London. For more details see: www.openmicuk.co.uk. SEER Green Gardening Society is holding its autumn show at the Jubilee Hall on Saturday, September 8, from 2.30 – 4pm.
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