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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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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Ruby Wedding Anniversary Plants and Flowers
Ruby Wedding Anniversary plants and flowers is a gardening inspiration blog for Ruby Celebrations. You may need help to choose
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Plants called Snake – Chinese New Year
Plants called Snake in celebration of Chinese New Year 2025, for your delectation – 15 in total. Houseplants and hardy
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Could You Grow Your Own Christmas Pudding?
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
30 Garden Plants and Ideas for a Dream Garden – as chosen by one of my offspring as they’re heading
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13 Black Flowers Planting Design Ideas
Why 13 black flowers? I mean, naturally coloured black flowers – as distinct from dyed or painted ones – are
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Red Roses and Dragons in Your Garden
Red roses and dragons in your garden – you may be thinking that that is a curious combination. Until, that
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Plants called Dragon – Chinese New Year
Plants called Dragon has ideas for a themed planting design for Chinese New Year 2024 and beyond. Indeed the plants
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Grow Your Own Thanksgiving Feast
Could you grow your own Thanksgiving feast? Whilst there are ‘how to’ blogs listed at the end, this is more
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Wedding Anniversary Roses for Your Garden
Do you have a special wedding anniversary looming on the horizon? Here we have a quick run through of some
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Grow Your Own Pizza Garden
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
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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Would You Like a White Garden or a White Flower Border?
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 – Chinese New Year
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
13 Black fruits to grow for Halloween – because it’s a fun, spooky idea but one which allows you to
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A Chocolate Garden – Planting Design Inspiration
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
Flowers called Elizabeth could equally be named Plants called Elizabeth, but it seems we tend to firstly look for flowers
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70 Ideas for My Dream Garden
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 – Chinese New Year
Plants called Tiger has ideas for a themed planting design for Chinese New Year 2022 and beyond. Indeed the plants
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Grow Your Own Gin Garden
Could you grow your own gin garden? Including the tonic? The answer, as we shall see is both yes and
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30 Ideas for my Dream Garden
My dream garden, my 30th birthday garden, my first ‘proper’ garden after only gardening on a balcony. These were suggestions
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8 Chinese Flowers for Chinese New Year
Chinese flowers for Chinese New Year focusses on those flowers and plants you could grow in your own garden, rather
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Turquoise Flowers – Planting Design Ideas
This turquoise flowers article is a result of an often asked question: – “Where do you find the inspiration to
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Black Cat Flowers
Black cat flowers is a celebration of both glorious black flowers for your garden and the darkest of dark domestic
12 Star Wars Flowers for Your Garden
Twelve Star Wars Flowers for Your Garden is not a joke article. Over the years I have on occasion suggested
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30 Plants and Features for Your Garden
This week, I have for you a list of 30 plants and features for your garden to inspire your own
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Flowers called Wedding Day
Flowers called Wedding Day is another blog inspired by my darling daughter’s wedding. The previous one was about quince cheese,
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What is a Chocolate Garden?
What is a chocolate garden? Well, it could be a garden filled with chocolate scented flowers such as Chocolate cosmos. Or
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50 Golden Celebration Plants for Your Garden
50 Golden Celebration plants for your garden – because if you’re having a big party to celebrate and there will be
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21 Favourite Garden Plants for a Special Birthday
The inspiration for choosing these 21 favourite garden plants is the occasion of a twenty-first birthday; specifically, Lucy, Plews Garden
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Black Flowers for Your Spooky Garden
Natural black flowers are probably not the first thought you have when deciding on a colour scheme for your garden.
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