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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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wildflowers at the Olympic Park

wildflowers at the Olympic Park

If you want to see the big ideas coming out of British horticulture, there's no better – or bigger – showcase than the gardens and meadows of the Olympic Park in Stratford. The 250-hectare site in east London has been filled with 4000 trees, 300000 …
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Gardeners battle rain and mud as RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park …

Rain and mud have caused huge problems for gardeners preparing for the annual floral extravaganza at Tatton.
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MY GARDEN AND OTHER ANIMALS BY MIKE DILGER (HarperCollins 14.99)

Creating a wildlife garden from scratch is not without its frustrations: there's a huge lump of concrete in the exact place they want to dig their pond, a rat sets up home in their chicken coop and the British weather conspires against them. But there …
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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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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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On Topic of Gardening – GardenBanter.co.uk

On Topic of Gardening – GardenBanter.co.uk

Whilst I have every sympathy for Baz and others who have been affected by recent weather/floods etc., isn't it about time this newsgroup got back to.
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Growing problems of a soaring population

The 2011 Census shows the population of England and Wales has reached 56.1 million. GARETH McPHERSON asks what challenges face Cambridge with the number of people living in the city jumping by 13 per cent in a decade. THE powers that be need …
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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 …
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Sunny outside & the front garden. – UK Veg Gardeners

Sunny outside & the front garden. – UK Veg Gardeners

Its sunny outside today & i hope it has come to stay. A lovely rhyme to start the morning off. Pots have been watered & birds have been fed. Th…
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London 2012: Olympic Park's gardeners juggle their blooms

Olympic Park gardeners will hold back some plants and force others so that everything looks its best for opening ceremony.
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Landscape Gardener (21775399) – 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. 21775399.
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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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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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Could the Queen's seeds grow in your garden?

Could the Queen's seeds grow in your garden?

“Royal” gardens could soon spring up across the UK, as seeds from plants in Buckingham Palace garden go on sale at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
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Street, wave and cyber-gardening

Feilden Clegg Bradley's Open Studio event for the LFA.
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Growing fruit and veg: the art of saving a crop

Midsummer has passed, and with the coldest April, the wettest May and a windy June, it has been an uncertain start to the vegetable growing season. Normally one would be almost overwhelmed with the abundance of things to eat – harvesting broad beans, …
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