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Offer of the Week – phlox paniculata – In The Garden … – People.co.uk

Offer of the Week – phlox paniculata – In The Garden … – People.co.uk

PHLOX paniculata, or perennial phlox, are one of the classics of the cottage garden border – and this week's special offer.
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Home & Interiors Lynne Allbutt: Green scene

“After a test event for children in our Great British garden, we spent half an hour fishing hula-hoops out the pond!” The Natural North. The Olympic Park's North garden is verdant with extensive meadows that are fundamentally about bio-diversity and …
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Weekend work: Time to do some deadheading

Deadheading is scarcely work – a job to fill the odd 10 minutes. Phlomis needs it, roses of course, old flowered stems of various iris, Jacob's ladder, little violas and sweet williams. Clear out rows of early peas and broad beans and fork out any …
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Upgrade 0n gardening equipment – Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

Upgrade 0n gardening equipment – Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers

“Upgrade 0n gardening equipment?” – Find the answer to this question and millions more on Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers.
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Cooter on gardening leave from QBE and tipped for RSA return

In January 2010 as part of a shake-up which saw Brit Insurance promote Peter Burrows from Brit UK CEO to the position of executive chairman for its UK strategic business unit, Cooter assumed the position of director, UK market management and regional …
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Gardens: how to make garden waste work for you

guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 July 2012 22.59 BST … It's a beautiful, simple system: waste turns into nutrients to feed the garden, and bulk to improve the soil, which produces more growth, which eventually goes back into the compost bin. The circle is …
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Newquay Going for Gardening Gold

Newquay Going for Gardening Gold

Newquay is preparing as judges for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Britain in Bloom UK Finals 2012 will be visiting on Tuesday 31st July. Newquay is among 72 finalists, picked from more than a thousand cities, towns, villages and urban communities.
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Belmont House and gardens, Faversham, Kent: visiting a piece of history

These days, the house and gardens are part of a trust created by the fifth Lord Harris to restore and preserve the estate, so the public can learn about the family's history. For it is their role in the development of the British Empire; their travels …
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Could You Be A Garden Buddy

The project will be concentrating on Towcester and surrounding area in early months before rolling out to further South Northants areas. To sign up as a Garden Buddy or for more information contact Nicola on 01327 358264 or email nicola@snvb.org.uk.
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Offer of the Week: Carlingford potatoes – In The Garden – Gardening …

Offer of the Week: Carlingford potatoes – In The Garden – Gardening …

HERE'S your chance to enjoy second cropping new potatoes straight from your garden – you could even dish them up fresh on Christmas Day.
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The Yeo Valley garden keeps organics at its heart

At the Yeo Valley organic garden at Holt Farm in the Mendip Hills of Somerset, Sarah Mead and her head gardener, James Cox, and their team, have made an inspiring and ever-evolving garden with organics at its heart. Holt Farm adjoins the Yeo Valley …
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Top Daily Gardener Job- Herts- ASAP Job Vacancy in South …

Top Daily Gardener Job- Herts- ASAP needed in South England, £25000 per annum. Visit Horticulture Jobs to view job details and apply online …
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Kingfisher sales flat as weather puts off gardening

Kingfisher sales flat as weather puts off gardening

B&Q owner Kingfisher (LON:KGF) said summer sales across the group were marginally down as unseasonably wet weather continued to batter Europe. Chief executive Ian Cheshire said the firm enticed customers into their stores with promotional activities …
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The best gardens sowing seeds of Olympic glory

London's Olympic Park, at just under a square mile, is the largest new park in the city for more than 100 years. For gardeners, the most exciting part will be the extensive and dramatic perennial planting, designed to be part of a permanent legacy …
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Alan Titchmarsh's top tips for pre-holiday garden – Express

Gardening :: Alan Titchmarsh's top tips for pre-holiday garden preparation – Alan Titchmarsh gardening and food growing tips.
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The transformation of an old English garden – in pictures | Life and …

The transformation of an old English garden – in pictures | Life and …

A charity and a fragrance company have teamed up to regenerate a neglected public garden in Battersea Park, London – with inspiring results.
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Gardeners – GardenBanter.co.uk

“David Hare-Scott” wrote: It looks to me like the all the usual suspects are still here. Happens this time every year….they're all out in the garden…. — Gary Woods …
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Lucy Hall promoted to edit Gardeners' World magazine

The managing director of Immediate's London specialist division, Steven Seaton, said: “Lucy's passion for gardening and journalism – and her track record of success – means the UK's leading gardening title is in great hands.” Pasco will continue to …
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How to grow a lean green French bean

How to grow a lean green French bean

French beans – both climbing and dwarf types – have been grown in British gardens for as long as runner beans. But the popularity of runners and their glut-producing potential has meant that the lower-yielding but more refined dwarf French varieties …
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A match made in heaven

Most couples spend nearly £1000 on flowers alone, but it takes a cool nerve to grow all your own wedding flowers during the average British summer. When my son married, as mother of the groom, I felt it was the least I could do, but even three years on …
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Garden Articles – gardenersclick

http://www.gigl.org.uk/Submitrecords/RSPBCockneySparrow/tabid/203/Default. aspx. … Mare's tail and Horsetail are a gardener's worst enemy! Clickers have …
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Lawns

Jayne Dawson: Now the seed is planted – we can't give up our lawns

Jayne Dawson: Now the seed is planted – we can't give up our lawns

Life is turbulent: there are disasters and triumphs, stars shine and fade, leaders arrive in glory and leave in ignominy, but there are two constants – our Queen's facial expression, and our love of lawns. These are the twin pillars of British life …
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Turfland's New Root Booster Helps Establish New Lawns

Turfonline has more than half a century of expertise in helping gardeners and greenkeepers and aspiring gardeners and greenkeepers grow top quality lawns. Turfonline exploits the expertise of two of the UK's largest turf growers, Turfland Farms Limited …
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Lawns

Extreme weather 'to kill off British lawns' as gardeners warned to expect more …

Extreme weather 'to kill off British lawns' as gardeners warned to expect more …

The traditional British lawn will become a thing of the past as changing weather patterns make it virtually impossible to create the perfect garden, experts say. They fear summers will become prone to extreme conditions, with periods of torrential rain …
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New owners promise £2.5m makeover for Green Lawns

The couple have combined 40 years working in some of the most prestigious and challenging hotels and restaurants in the UK – and are keen to bring something new to the county. “There are some wonderful hotels in Cornwall and we know that customer …
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9th October 2012 – Leatherjackets in Lawns | Lawn UK

Leatherjackets are one of the worst insect pests to cause problems in lawns, particularly at this time of year. Poorly drained lawns are worst affected. Crane flies …
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GC helps school transform garden on DIYretailer.co.uk

GC helps school transform garden on DIYretailer.co.uk

A Powys garden centre has enabled youngsters to gain hands-on horticultural experience by creating a vegetable patch and a wildlife-friendly garden at a …
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The urban back garden in England in the nineteenth century

The urban back garden in England in the nineteenth century. Gardens and gardening are considered today to be central to English culture, but when did this …
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Hampton Court Flower Show 2012: Highlights for plant-hunters

Blackmoor Nurseries of Liss in Hampshire (01420 477978; blackmoor.co.uk) is bravely going ahead, having had its 75 show plants stolen at the end of May. It is still able to show three of its specialities, all bred in the United States. Peach 'Amber' is …
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