Gardening Tasks for August
Here’s hoping we get warm sun during the day and gentle wetting rain overnight so we can spend more time […]
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Do Geese eat Gooseberries? and other Questions
Do Geese eat Gooseberries? and other questions answered by yours truly. Some will entertain, some will educate, but hopefully will
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How is a Garden Consultant different to a Garden Designer?
Like a lot of professionals, I wear more than one hat. I have ones that variously read Garden Designer, Garden
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How to Kitten Proof Your Garden
How to kitten proof your garden is probably not the first thing that springs to mind when looking at adorable
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Gardening Tasks for July
How can we have had half the year already? The months seem to be racing away and yet I feel
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Growing Hops in Your Garden
Growing hops in your garden has design tips as well as how to plant your hops. It’s an excellent climber
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How to have a Mini Orchard in Your Garden
What a delightful thought – to walk outside on a summer’s morning and pick fresh peaches for your breakfast! But
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Summer Flower Border Ideas from Garden Visits
Summer flower border ideas are gleaned from various garden visits, to whet your appetite for a glorious display of your
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Gardening Tasks for June
June is the midsummer month in the garden – still fresh and full of promise; yet bursting with colour and
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Blue Flowering Shrubs for Bees
Blue flowering shrubs for bees and humans is here to inspire you whether your preference is for a formal garden,
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Front Garden Gate Ideas
What does your front garden gate say about you? Because we pass through the gate with our eyes to the
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Hawthorn, May Blossom, Crataegus monogyna, Crataegus laevigata
Common hawthorn, May Blossom, also known as May tree and Quickthorn. This is a native species in the British Isles, Ireland
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Gardening Tasks for May
We are having lovely weather (mostly) so let’s enjoy the last month of spring in our gardens. And there are
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Tips for Dog Friendly Gardens
Tips for dog friendly gardens is about easily creating a garden that is also a garden you and your family
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Tulips, Tulip-o-mania and Tulip Virus
Tulip-o-mania, or tulpenmanie in Dutch, both made and lost fortunes in the seventeenth century. Tulips are still one of the most
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Growing Fritillaria in Your Garden
Growing Fritillaria in your garden is looking like it may become something of a new obsession. Well, if I go
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Gardening Tasks for April
April gardening tasks will be carried out in a weather mix of really warm sun, frosts, snow and possibly April
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5 Rockery Plants for Bees and Small Green Roofs
I have seen many articles on rockery plants but not (as yet) any specifically aimed at choosing flowering rockery plants
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What is a Vegan Garden?
The question “What is a Vegan Garden?” is one which I am asked as a Gardening Teacher and sometimes in
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Could You Grow Your Own Coffee?
Is it possible to grow your own Coffee? Well, yes, it is! Even in the UK, if you have a
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Gardening Tasks for March
No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden (Hugh Johnson) And that is
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Choosing Your Greenhouse
Choosing your greenhouse involves considering a range of factors, some of which we looked at in a previous blog, Planning
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Planning Your Perfect Greenhouse
Planning your perfect greenhouse is not about quick decision making, but about getting the right greenhouse for you, your garden,
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Romantic Roses for Valentine’s Day and Beyond
This blog on romantic roses is less about madly spending on Valentine’s Day than being inspired to create a garden
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Gardening Tasks for February
Never mind about gardening tasks for February! Think about Snowdrops, Daffodils and Hellebores and flowering winter shrubs – far more fun
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12 Gardening Tips for your New Year Garden
Did you perhaps make New Year’s Resolutions and now we’re at the end of January you’re struggling with keeping them
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Chimonanthus praecox – Wintersweet
Chimonanthus praecox is a shrub that you hardly notice during the summer. Except perhaps as a leafy green backdrop to
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Bare Root Fruit Bushes
Gooseberry crumble, blueberries sprinkled over your breakfast granola – bare root fruit bushes are the promise of treats to come!
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Gardening Tasks for January
As we begin a new gardening year, many of us are still recovering from holiday and visitor mode, hardly ready to
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12 Plants for the 12 Days of Christmas
12 Plants for the 12 Days of Christmas is a seasonal blog with planting ideas for a themed garden with
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The Winter Solstice and Your Garden
Whilst I’m talking here about the Winter Solstice and your garden, it’s helpful to clarify that I’m referring to the
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Hippeastrum or Amaryllis? Christmas Flowering Bulbs
Botanical Latin scholars among you may be aware why the flowering bulb we have in our houses at Christmas is
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