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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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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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Wisbech designer heading for Japan's Gardening World Cup

Wisbech designer heading for Japan's Gardening World Cup

IN a year where British hopes for international competition glory are high, Wisbech garden designer Richard Miers has been invited to compete for world cup glory in Japan's third Gardening World Cup. Comments; Email; Print; Got a story? To send a link …
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Kiaran Stapleton: From schoolboy gardener to remorseless killer

Yet bizarrely it was at this time that as a talented gardener, he won New Prospect Housing's Best Kept Garden competition. While he appeared to have overcome his troubled youth, family and friends reported that he had always been prone to strange mood …
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School gardens: growing greener kids

Astonishing things have been happening in and around our fridge in recent weeks. Crumpled plastic sandwich bags crammed with curly lettuce leaves, rocket or radishes have been appearing on the top shelf and, within a matter of hours, disappearing again.
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Ahoghill & Broughshane Going for Gardening Gold

Ahoghill & Broughshane Going for Gardening Gold

PREPARATION for the RHS Britain in Bloom UK finals is hotting up in Broughshane and Ahoghill as judges are due to call shortly at each of the villages. 'Judgement Day' for Ahoghill will be on Monday, July 30, while the Garden Village of Broughshane can …
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Squad UK landscape gardening hopefuls impress judges at RHS …

Squad UK landscape gardening hopefuls impress judges at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park.
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10 rules to maximise the space in small family gardens.
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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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Slug alert! Invasion of the gastropods

Slug alert! Invasion of the gastropods

This is the summer of the slug. Gardeners and nurseries all over the country are finding that mild weather, punctuated by record levels of rainfall, has caused the population of the greedy gastropods to increase dramatically, and expert horticulturists …
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People power at Tatton Park

Community gardening has seen a boost in interest, with the RHS reporting a 20% rise in It's Your Neighbourhood and RHS Britain in Bloom groups across the North of England, and as the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park gets set to open, the charity hopes …
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How does your garden grow (Vogue.com UK)

Head down to the Old English Garden, in Battersea Park where Jo Malone Limited has teamed up with Thrive, the charity whose mission is to harness the therapeutic power of gardening to help those with physical disability.The Vogue Blog
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Tottenham riots-inspired garden wins silver at top show

Tottenham riots-inspired garden wins silver at top show

A young Tottenham gardener has been given silver at one of the world's most famous flower shows for his riots-inspired design.
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BLOOMING WEATHER SPELLS MASSIVE CUTS – Express

Gardening :: Blooming weather spells massive cuts – Alan Titchmarsh gardening and food growing tips.
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FIRE GARDEN LIGHTS UP STONEHENGE AS PART OF … – Express

Gardening :: Fire Garden lights up Stonehenge as part of Olympic celebrations – Alan …
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Keeping up with the Joneses is filling our gardens with grot!

Keeping up with the Joneses is filling our gardens with grot!

The heart goes out to Lesley Cherry, who came home from holiday to find that her £4500 wooden decking at the back of her house had been torn down by the council. But my heart only goes halfway out.
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Wychbold garden centre marks 75 years of growth

IT is unlikely that the founders of a small seeds trial ground at Wychbold in 1937 could have dreamed of the growth that was to follow in the next 75 years.
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Top of the plots: Showcasing the best of Britain's gardens in our second …

Our competition showcases the best of British – and we do gardening better than any country on earth.
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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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