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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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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12 Plants for the 12 Days of Christmas is a seasonal blog with planting ideas for a themed garden with
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Ruby Wedding Anniversary plants and flowers is a gardening inspiration blog for Ruby Celebrations. You may need help to choose
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What are the elements of a romantic garden? Are they perhaps poetical? “ For you, a romantic garden I shall
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Plants called Snake in celebration of Chinese New Year 2025, for your delectation – 15 in total. Houseplants and hardy
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10 Unusual winter flowering shrubs to brighten your garden and provide food for pollinating insects. Some of the following will
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Why a blog entitled “Could You Grow Your Own Christmas Pudding”? Well, I thought, if you like growing some of
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30 Garden Plants and Ideas for a Dream Garden – as chosen by one of my offspring as they’re heading
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Why 13 black flowers? I mean, naturally coloured black flowers – as distinct from dyed or painted ones – are
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Tips for cat friendly gardens is about easily creating a garden that also a garden that you, the subservient human,
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Giant Scabious, Cephalaria gigantea, is a wonderful plant for your herbaceous border. It is one of my favourite herbaceous perennials for
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Red roses and dragons in your garden – you may be thinking that that is a curious combination. Until, that
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Planting ideas for summer bedding. Whether you fancy a full-on display for your front garden to rival the displays in
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Plants called Dragon has ideas for a themed planting design for Chinese New Year 2024 and beyond. Indeed the plants
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Could you grow your own Thanksgiving feast? Whilst there are ‘how to’ blogs listed at the end, this is more
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Do you have a special wedding anniversary looming on the horizon? Here we have a quick run through of some
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How to grow your own pizza garden – a fun and practical idea to get adults enthused about gardening. Oh
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Midsummer Nights Dream garden design inspiration for romantic gardeners. Surely Oberon’s description of Titania’s bower is one of the
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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Romeo and
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Would you like a white garden or a white flower border? A white garden filled with white flowers and flowering
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Plants called Rabbit has ideas for a themed planting design for Chinese New Year 2023 and beyond. Indeed the plants
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13 Black fruits to grow for Halloween – because it’s a fun, spooky idea but one which allows you to
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Chocolate Week in the UK – a good reason to eat lots of chocolate. For chocoholics with gardens, why not plan
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Flowers called Elizabeth could equally be named Plants called Elizabeth, but it seems we tend to firstly look for flowers
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Are you thinking and wondering why: A list of 10 purple flowers for wild bees? swiftly followed by two questions
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70 ideas for my dream garden may sound like a long list, but it isn’t. This is where you’re letting
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Plants called Tiger has ideas for a themed planting design for Chinese New Year 2022 and beyond. Indeed the plants
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Could you grow your own gin garden? Including the tonic? The answer, as we shall see is both yes and
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My dream garden, my 30th birthday garden, my first ‘proper’ garden after only gardening on a balcony. These were suggestions
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Autumn planting ideas for your garden and flower borders suggests a mix of plants that you will know and some
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5 Tall Flowers for Midsummer Gardens is here to inspire you and give you ideas for planting designs and flower
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Chinese flowers for Chinese New Year focusses on those flowers and plants you could grow in your own garden, rather
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