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Kim Wilde is Supporting a New Campaign to get UK Families Outdoors

Kim Wilde is Supporting a New Campaign to get UK Families Outdoors

Almost a third of UK families admit they never hold social events in their garden and for one in five socialising in the garden is just an annual event. Furthermore, more than four in 10 children never help their parents with the gardening, according …
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rhs and british red cross helps refugees RHS Gardening

news article on rhs and british red cross partners to help refugees and asylum seekers.
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UKEurope A Gardener's Notebook

Here is another great gardening show from the UK, Beechgrove Garden. Beechgrove Garden is basically the Gardener's World for Scotland. If you have similar …
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Cheap Metal Garden Sheds for Sale in the UK and Ireland

Cheap Metal Garden Sheds for Sale in the UK and Ireland

Finding cheap metal garden sheds for sale in the UK and Ireland can be quite difficult if you don't know what you are looking for or where to look. Nothing beats …
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should I uproot my lime trees – Gardening in the UK Forum – GardenWeb

I have just moved into a house that has a mini-lime avenue. The garden was totally overgrown when we moved in, and after we got it cleared we discovered a …
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Britain's Grassroot Gardeners go for Gold

… public space to find Britain's most beautiful and environmentally responsible locations, in the ultimate gardening challenge. The 72 finalists were picked from several thousand entries in RHS Britain in Bloom 2012, the UK's biggest environmental …
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TV gardener David Domoney: I perk up cut flowers by feeding them Viagra

TV gardener David Domoney: I perk up cut flowers by feeding them Viagra

David Domoney has been called the Heston Blumenthal of the gardening world. He talks to Metro about why having a quirky approach in the garden is so.
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Hogging the limelight: Why hedgehogs need a path through our gardens

… demonstrated by the Hedgehog Street campaign, which was launched jointly last year by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society and the People's Trust for Endangered Species. A survey of “Hedgehog Champions” shows that nearly 5000 gardens have …
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British Farmer Plants Heart-Shaped Meadow in Honor of Late Wife …

green, gardening, england, UK, gardens, green design, heart-shaped. When Janet passed away over a decade ago, Howes meticulously planned and planted …
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Win a pergola for your garden worth 259.99

Win a pergola for your garden worth 259.99

Enter our competition for your chance to win a wooden arch from Forest.
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Dublin garden designer's floral chandelier wins him silver at leading UK …

A GARDEN designer from north Dublin has won silver at one of Britain's most prestigious flower shows at Tatton Park in Cheshire.
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UK's front gardens paved over for parking spaces

Paved over front gardens are a very sad sight in many urban parts of the UK. They make streets even more gray than the already are and make the area look more unattractive. I have one question: how does one get permission to do such a thing? Houses in …
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British garden product manufacturers export at spogagafa

British garden product manufacturers export at spogagafa

For overseas buyers wishing to research and source the thousands of other UK garden, leisure and pet products available from member companies within Gardenex, the federation has organised a garden and leisure industry information stand housed within …
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Gardeners battle rain and mud as RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park prepares to …

Rain and mud have caused huge problems for gardeners preparing for the annual floral extravaganza at Tatton.
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Pensioner fights off petunia-thieves with trowel

Harry Cook, 67, confronted the burglars and stopped them from making off with prize plants from his front garden in Loughborough, Leicestershire. After catching them in their van, he told them to “put the blooming things back” before watching them …
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Gardening http:www.sgm-uk.comadvicerotavator-hire Tips For …

Gardening http:www.sgm-uk.comadvicerotavator-hire Tips For …

Gardening http://www.sgm-uk.com/advice/rotavator-hire/ Tips For Fun And Functional Purposes. Gardening http://www.sgm-uk.com/advice/rotavator-hire/ Tips …
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Curious Tomato plant habit – Gardening in the UK Forum – GardenWeb

I have a Gardeners Delight plant which was grown from seed (from a recognised source) and was given a yellow tom which I have no idea what variety it is.
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Squad UK hospitality team announced for WorldSkills 2013

The National Apprenticeship Service has announced five young “skills stars” from the hospitality industry who have earned a place in Squad UK for an international skills competition – WorldSkills Leipzig 2013. … Held every two years in one of its 61 …
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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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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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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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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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