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Gardening uk

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Silver lining for your beds – Express

Silver lining for your beds – Express

Gardening :: Silver lining for your beds – Alan Titchmarsh gardening and food growing tips.
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Moore Sundial stolen from garden

A £500000 bronze sculpture by the leading British artist Henry Moore has been stolen from the grounds of his former home. Sundial 1965 was taken some time late on Tuesday or early on Wednesday from the garden at the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry …
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Don't miss our next gardening event! | Yeo Valley | Supporting …

This Friday, we've got another special gardening guest in the valley. Ever wondered how to use herbs in the kitchen? Or how to grow them in your garden? Well …
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Sweet Peas Gardening Club, Find Local Events … – Greenwich.co.uk

Sweet Peas Gardening Club, Find Local Events … – Greenwich.co.uk

The Sweet Peas Gardening Club is a place for you to practise old fashioned skills such as planting and harvesting your own food in the community garden, …
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The plant hunters: Adventurers who transformed our gardens would put Indiana …

Let's take a walk around a traditional British garden. You see those lilies over there – Lilium regale, with their white trumpets flushed with purple on the outside and a fragrance that hangs in the warm summer air? They were introduced to the UK by …
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Look what i found in the garden – UK Veg Gardeners

As i do most evenings after work & cooking the kids tea, i loaded up blogger to see who had posted what. Mark from http://marksvegplot.blogspot.co.uk/…
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Gardening question for experts? – Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

Gardening question for experts? – Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

“Gardening question for experts?” – Find the answer to this question and millions more on Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers.
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Sir David Attenborough says cultivate the nettles in your garden to help …

Sir David Attenborough says cultivate the nettles in your garden to help butterflies. Sir David Attenborough has called on gardeners to plant a wild flower meadow and cultivate a nettle patch to help butterflies struggling to survive the wet summer and …
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Thorny problems: what a wash out

Any reference to weather extremes is rare on this page, since no sooner has a mini-heat wave or flooding hit the headlines than it is over. Last week's news, literally. By addressing the question of whether this appalling summer has managed to dampen …
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Celebrity gardeners blamed for making floods worse by encouraging decking …

Celebrity gardeners blamed for making floods worse by encouraging decking …

Celebrity gardeners blamed for making floods worse by encouraging decking and patios. Television gardeners have been blamed for making the recent spate of floods worse by encouraging people to rip up lawns and replace them with decking and patios.
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Sculpture in the garden

This year at Chelsea Flower Show, the occasional flower bloomed between ambitious installations by architects and designers: a limited-edition bronze of Lewis Carroll's Alice for £3000, a welded-steel peacock on an urn for £15000 and, for the thrifty …
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Squad UK Selection for Landscape Gardening at RHS Tatton Park …

Taking place at this year's RHS Tatton Park (18 – 22 July) is the WorldSkills Leipzig 2013 Squad UK Selection Competition for Landscape Gardening. Working …
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Are councils 'vandalising' UK's wildflower … – Amateur Gardening

Are councils 'vandalising' UK's wildflower … – Amateur Gardening

Councils that mow road verges before wild flowers have appeared have been accused of horticultural vandalism. Wild plant charity Plantlife says it has.
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Cavolo Nero – UK Veg Gardeners

You need to be a member of UK Veg Gardeners to add comments! Join UK Veg Gardeners. Welcome to. UK Veg Gardeners. Sign Up or Sign In …
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It's A Gardener's World at Calke Abbey – 14th July

Calke Abbey's vegetable garden (c) NT Gillian DayGuarding our gardens and gardeners of the future is what the National Garden Scheme is all about and the National Trust's Calke Abbey will be joining in the UK-wide fund raising day on Saturday 14 July.
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RHS diary: July

RHS diary: July

Garlic may be ready for harvesting. The bulbs of hardneck varieties such as 'Chesnok Wight' and 'Lautrec Wight' are ready when around 40 per cent of the leaves have turned brown, but the central leaves are still green. Softneck varieties just “fall …
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The Great Potato Experiment – UK Veg Gardeners

At the end of last year I did a post about potato chitting and the fact that I was going to try a new method of planting potatoes. This method consisted of ju…
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How classic TV show inspired a Magic garden

School pupils are taking part in the Tatton Flower Show, with gardens inspired by classic kids'TV programmes. Sarah Dunn reports.
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The Medlar: In praise of horti-cooks

The Medlar: In praise of horti-cooks

The link between gardening and cookery has been growing ever stronger over the past decade or so, and it is now rare to come across a newish gardener who is not as interested in cookery as they are in gardening. This is the new generation of horti-cooks.
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Results: WorldSkills UK Landscape Gardening Competition

For the first time, the heats of the WorldSkills UK Landscape Gardening Competition took place at BALI – The 2012 Landscaping Show. 14 teams of two student …
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BRIEF-Flying Brands sells Gardening Direct retail ops for 2.

Datafeed and UK data supplied by NETbuilder and Interactive Data. While London South East do their best to maintain the high quality of the information displayed on this site, we cannot be held responsible for any loss due to incorrect information …
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Community garden opens to applause

Community garden opens to applause

THE Moveable Feast Garden opened to rapturous applause marking the transformation of a derelict plot of land into a community resource.
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Washout prunes profits at gardening supply group William Sinclair …

Gardening supplies group William Sinclair Holdings has issued a profit warning after the wet weather destroyed its harvest of peat bogs.
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Horticultural employers see shortage of skilled British applicants …

We may think of ourselves as a nation of gardeners, but when it comes to following a career in horticulture, employers are saying there's a shortage of British job …
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Students pick up tips on gardening

Students pick up tips on gardening

AMERICAN students from Auburn University in Alabama have been visiting Pershore College where they have been learning all about horticulture and garden design.
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Beyond string theory: keeping flowers growing straight and true

I'm not convinced that normal people know quite how much string goes into gardening. String – which, together with nails and weird little wire inventions – holds a plant in exactly the place you want it to be, rather than where it fancies growing. You …
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Why slugs are taking hold of UK gardens

EnvironmentWhy slugs are taking hold of UK gardensBritain's soggy summer may have brought dismay to many but for one particular creature, it is their.
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School gardens: get your free salad seeds

School gardens: get your free salad seeds

SIGN up now for a free salad-growing kit as part of The Sun's campaign to get schools gardening.
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Gardens: buddleia

Helen Babbs explores the secret life of a plant that's loved and hated in equal measure.
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Sandy's Garden – Legionellosis

Towards the end of the month of May, a story spread slowly across the media.
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