Category: Gardening uk

Appropriate Soil Is Essential For An Organic Garden | ppfrs.org.uk

Some people think that having a natural garden simply implies throwing seed on the ground and have it grow wildly. It is likely to take some effort to get your …
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Queen Noor of Jordan’s gardener ‘asked to grow exotic plants in bid to force …

The tribunal heard Mrs Migdadi ordered her to start growing exotic plants including mangos and avocados in the kitchen garden. When she warned it was impossible to do so in the UK, she was told in a “threatening manner” that she should “tell that to … See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk

Top Gardening Blogs Award – UK Veg Gardeners

I’ve been shortlisted for a Top Gardening Blog Award in a vote that ends on 30th April. Looking at the other nominees, at first sight few, if any, are devo…
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Landscape Gardener (21493605) – reed.co.uk

View all details on this Landscape Gardener vacancy on reed.co.uk, the UK’s #1 job site. You can also search for all similar roles now. 21493605.
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Featured, National News – Spring Gardens In The UK | Parents News

All over the world, the spring season is celebrated as a time to get outside and enjoy improving weather and beautiful settings. One of the ways in which t.
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Better Homes and Gardens’ presenter Jason Hodges to create Australian Garden …

WILLOUGHBY’S Better Homes and Gardens presenter Jason Hodges has been asked to construct an Australian garden at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show in the UK. The world’s most famous show attracts visitors from all over the world, as well as the Queen … See all stories on this topic »

North Shore Times

Reasons to be cheerful

It’s not every year that the greatest show on earth comes to our backyard — and the Olympics are set to make this year a golden one for British sport. The prospect of home-grown heroes including Mo Farah (main image), Rebecca Adlington, Jessica Ennis, … See all stories on this topic »

The Sun

Gardening – Where to start? – Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

A simple question that doesn’t seem so simple when I look at my overgrown … You’ve already started. Clearing out the dead/overgrown vegetation is step #1.
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The garden that smells of curry and peanut butter

St Michael’s Junior School pupils and gardening club members(l to r) Josh Pilling, Kenzia and Alanya Rogerson and Toni Court in the new sensory garden. Photo by Simon Finlay Plants that smell of peanut butter are among the highlights of a Norwich …
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http://www.mcenergygroup.co.uk/about_us/. Any gardener needs to have a rake on hand. When you think of a rake you probably think of something with a long …
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Gardening is the only hobby where the costs aren’t growing

But there is one pastime that is bucking the trend – gardening. A review of leisure spending found that, while the costs of ten out of 11 activities studied had risen more quickly than inflation, the price of gardening had not. See all stories on this topic »

Daily Mail

The Galloping Gardener: Relentless rain gives much needed boost …

Constantly travelling around UK and further (when time allows). Always keen to hear about new garden projects and interesting landscapes. All photographs …
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Mental Health Column: Ewan Hilton on ending loneliness for older people

The 2006 UK Government report, A Sure Start to Later Life, stated that social isolation affects about one million older people, and has “a severe impact on people’s quality of life in older age”. It is estimated that 51% of all people aged over 75 live …
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Silver goodies at Asthma UK House and Garden Fair

Rebecca, a jeweller with seven years experience, uses traditional silversmithing techniques, and her most recent work has been inspired by Ladybird books, …
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Quiet gardens: time to sit and stare

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Quiet Garden Movement, founded to offer oases of calm in a noisy world. Three cheers, whispers Christopher Middleton. By Christopher Middleton When Michael and Janet Chapman sit in their country garden, … See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk

Love blossoms: The magnificent sight of a fruit tree in full blossom is the …

I remember flying to Argentina one April and being thoroughly confused by the orchards in full bloom while 24 hours earlier in the UK I’d seen exactly the same varieties covered in ripe fruit. Now is your chance to enter the Daily Mail Garden … See all stories on this topic »

Daily Mail

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You can look at this as a solid base to from which to begin your gardening project . You might figure that you want to proceed without the use of some of these …
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The Garden of Evening Mists, By Tan Twan Eng

In the early 1950s, as a rebellious young prosecutor furious that the British rulers of Malaya have done so little to help victims of Japanese war crimes, she fled to the highlands to learn garden design from the shape-shifting Aritomo.
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Urban growth: A gardening guru is getting children hooked on the joys of …

He writes the gardening column for Jellied Eel, the magazine of the London Food Link. He's heavily involved in Capital Growth, the partnership launched by Boris Johnson and the LFL to provide 2012 new growing spaces in London by the end of the year.
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Ask Alys: your gardening questions answered

I'd mix it all together and then save a little of the new stuff to top-dress the planter. Mulch with something decorative, such as bark or pebbles, because this will help conserve moisture. • Got a question for Alys? Email askalys@guardian.co.uk Snail … See all stories on this topic »

The Guardian

10 of the most famous gardens in Britain

Perhaps there should be a phrase describing how highly English people (and Welsh, Irish and Scots people) adore their garden too. Here is a selection of ten of the most famous British gardens – ones many of us would love to own. 1.
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Where the wild things are: Richard Mabey's 'Food for Free' has Emma Townshend …

The next question is whether foraging can fit itself somewhere into our neat British idea of gardening. Grow your own was big business in the UK, but what about foraging? According to some people at our nearby allotments, foraging is just "helping …
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