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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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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Mid Autumn Gardening Tips & Ideas
Mid autumn gardening tips has easy tasks and ideas that will give you a better looking garden now and come
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Bought More Plants than You Meant? Help is Here!
Have you ever bought more plants than you meant to at the nursery, garden centre or when visiting a plant
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Plants don’t take Holidays: How to keep your garden alive while you do!
Wouldn’t it be amusing if when you went to Portugal for two weeks; your garden went on holiday to Cornwall? If only!
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Spice up Your Summer Borders
Do you have a garden that is wonderfully colourful in spring … but then by mid-June is a desert of
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7 Plant-Savvy Tips for Budget Gardening
There is always some point in our gardening life when we need to economise. With the title of 7 plant-savvy
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What is an Annual Plant?
The question “What is an Annual Plant?” comes up quite frequently mainly in gardening lessons and workshops, but at design
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What are Bare Root Plants?
Using bare root plants to add to your garden borders and fruit gardens is an economical way to add some
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Composting – Pest Problems and Prevention
Some composting pest problems are major, some are minor. It seems to be that all gardeners have issues with their composting
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Tips for Summer Gardening
Tips for summer gardening – to keep your garden busy and you relaxed and enjoying the balmy weather (when it
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Alternatives to a Grass Lawn
What are the alternatives to a grass lawn? Well, I say grass lawn, but in fact a frequent complaint that
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10 Tips for Buying Garden Plants
10 Tips for buying garden plants could also be entitled “How not to buy garden plants”. Or to put it
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29 Kitchen Garden Ideas for Leap Year
29 Kitchen garden ideas for leap year does not require you to have a 4 acre walled garden. (Although some
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Conifer Hedge Questions and Solutions
Why conifer hedge question and solutions? Well, because it’s a gardening matter that bothers a lot of Plews’ clients and
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How and When to Prune Roses
How and when to prune roses is a thorny problem that concerns many people. Indeed it was the topic that was
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Winter Gardening Tips for Plants
Winter gardening tips for plants to help you to keep them warm over the cold season whether the plants are
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10 Tips for Successful Seed Shopping
10 tips for successful seed shopping – help with getting the most from one of the delights of dark and
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Tips on Choosing Seating for Your Garden
Tips on choosing seating for your garden is a ‘how to’ blog including a check list of what to consider
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Cordon Apple Trees – Garden Surprises when Pruning
Cordon apple trees are an excellent way to grow one of Britain’s favourite fruits in a small space. But they
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Watering Plants in Hot Weather
Watering plants in hot weather has Gardening Teacher Tips and Ideas for which plants you should prioritise when there is
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Moving Gardens when you Move Home – Things to Know, Tips and Ideas
Moving gardens when you move home – this article is here to help you when you’re a gardener and you’re
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Gardens and the Law – Q & A
Gardens and the law – Q & A does what it says, ie answers some of the most frequently asked
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Labels Planting Plans Lists
Labels planting plans lists could be subtitled “This is a … umm … I’ll remember what it is in a
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How To Renovate Your Garden, Part 1
How to renovate your garden – not a topic that can be covered in one blog! But this is should
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Pruning the Greenhouse Vine
Pruning the greenhouse vine is part story and part gardening lesson on how to tackle an overgrown grape vine. The
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How to Sow Seeds Indoors
How to sow seeds indoors gets down to the nitty, horticultural gritty of sowing, as promised in the previous Plews
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Sowing Seeds Indoors – what you need and what you don’t
What you need for sowing seeds indoors has tips and ideas to make this gardening task easy. Although not expensive
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10 Tips for Saving on Garden Essentials
Tips for saving on garden essentials is partly about re-using and recycling. But as this frees up your money so
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Six New Year’s Resolutions for Your Garden
New Year’s Resolutions – yes, it’s that time of year when lots of people like to make a fresh start!
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Preparing Your Pond for Winter
Preparing your pond for winter may involve a variety of tasks. Some of these are relevant for any type of
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Pruning Spring Flowering Shrubs
Pruning spring flowering shrubs is a task that sometimes gets forgotten in all the excitement of herbaceous perennials bursting into
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