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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Summer Bedding Plants – Questions and Answers
Summer Bedding Plants – Questions and Answers leads on from earlier blogs on bedding plants; design ideas for hanging baskets
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Tips for Gardening on Chalk Soil
Tips for gardening on chalk soil is here to help you if you have stony, chalky earth in your garden.
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Tips for Gardening on Clay Soil
Gardening on clay soil has both advantages and disadvantages. But clay soil gardens have the potential to be one of
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Winter Pruning in Your Garden
Winter pruning in your garden has tips for you covering what trees and shrubs to prune, and just as importantly,
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Pruning Clematis – When, How and Why
Pruning Clematis is one of those areas where many gardeners, whether they‘re a novice or not, often find themselves returning
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6 Tips for Your Autumn Garden
Before we start on the tips for your autumn garden I’d like to ask you the following question (there is
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15 Bank Holiday Gardening Tips
Why a helpful blog about Bank Holiday gardening tips when its probably going to rain all weekend, may be the
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Plastic Free Gardening Tips
Plastic free gardening tips – a few ideas to help you to keep your good intentions for plastic free July
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Pruning Wisteria
Pruning – perhaps especially when pruning Wisteria is a balance between the plant’s needs and the needs of the garden
9 Tips for National Gardening Week 2020
Yes, National Gardening Week 2020 is still happening, even though we’re in lockdown. There may not be any events at
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Gardening in a Lockdown
Spring 2020 has brought us to gardening in a lockdown due to the affects of Coronavirus 19. Social distancing and
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29 Gardening Tips for A Leap Year
Well, perhaps not just for a leap year, but it seemed an entertaining way to suggest 29 gardening tips, large,
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How to Prune Correctly – Things You Need to Know
How to prune the trees and shrubs in your garden is a popular topic for Plews Gardening Lessons and Courses.
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Putting Your Garden to Bed for the Winter
Putting your garden to bed for the winter was for many gardeners and garden owners “the thing that you did”.
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3 Gifts for Your Garden
3 Gifts for Your Garden is not about the presents someone will give to you as a gardener. It’s not
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Mid October in the Garden
What does mid October in the garden bring to the gardeners among us? We gather in harvest of fruits and
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Midsummers Day in Your Garden – 3 Flowers, 3 Fruits, 3 Tasks
To spend Midsummers Day in your garden should be a delight for your senses. A garden filled with scented flowers; sun
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5 Gardening Tips for New Year
5 Gardening Tips for New Year – Plews last gardening blog of 2017 reviews what you may have been doing in
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Late Autumn Gardening Checklist
Late autumn gardening checklist? Is it late autumn? Well… I think it’s safe to assume that its late autumn. You
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Gardening in January – Tasks, Ideas and Flowering Plants
One of the tricks with gardening in January is to remember that it is the midwinter. Yes, I did type
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National Tree Week Christmas Trees Bare Root Trees
National Tree Week Christmas Trees Bare Root Trees What is the link between these? And why would it be of interest
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Autumn Gardening Tasks – Lifting Perennial Tubers
Lifting perennial tubers in the Autumn is often seen as a complicated gardening task. But it isn’t really. Dahlias and Begonias
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National Gardening Week 2016 – Gardening Questions Answered
National Gardening Week 2016 takes place April 11th – 17th. There are many events happening around the country and free entry
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Garden Planning – Your New Year’s Resolution for Your Garden
Garden Planning is about planning to enjoy your garden all year round. In my New Year’s blog in 2015, I
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How to clear out Your Garden Pond in Autumn
How to clear out your garden pond in autumn is a helpful checklist. Many of us have a pond in
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When to Prune Roses
When to prune rose bushes is a thorny problem that concerns many people. How to prune roses correctly is another, related,
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Autumn Lawn Tasks
Does the phrase Autumn Lawn Tasks make your heart sink? Don’t worry, we have some tips to help you focus
Autumn Pruning – some Questions and Answers
We thought a few of the more frequently asked questions – and the relevant answers – about autumn pruning of
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Lawns – is the Grass always Greener over the fence?
Lawns have been around in Europe for some thousand years, although not always a recognisable lawn in the contemporary sense.
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The Carpet in your Garden – Spring Lawn Tasks
The emerald carpet in your garden – the great British lawn. St Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland, the country
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