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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Plants:
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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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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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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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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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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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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Celebrating Trees
Celebrating Trees is about taking time to appreciate and wonder at trees. Consider this: they are the longest living organisms
Michaelmas Daisies – Still an Aster?
For me, the sight of Michaelmas daisies enlivening flower borders and pots is a vivid snapshot of this particular point
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Types of Dahlia – Glorious Blooms
The phrase ‘types of Dahlia’ are where these wonderful flowers are divided into groups, placing similar Dahlia varieties together. For
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Carpet Bedding – Brief History of a Living Tapestry
lthough similar, carpet bedding is not exactly the same as planting out bedding plants in your garden. The differences between
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Types of Tulips
How many types of tulips are there?! Having first seen acres of them growing in Holland at the age of
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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Oranges and Lemons Fun Facts
“Oranges and Lemons say the bells of St Clements” Or so goes the eighteenth century nursery rhyme. Which at the
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10 Unusual Winter Flowering Shrubs
10 Unusual winter flowering shrubs to brighten your garden and provide food for pollinating insects. Some of the following will
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Coppiced Trees and Shrubs in Your Garden
This coppiced trees and shrubs in your garden blog explains what coppicing is and how to do it. The main
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Dahlia Tips and Facts
Dahlia tips and facts to entertain and educate so you can more easily grow beautiful blooms and amuse others with
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Types of Daffodils
The phrase ‘types of daffodils’ refers to the way in which similar Narcissus are grouped together. Properly referred to as
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The four o’clock plant
The four o’clock plant – a plant that tells the time. Or should that be “A plant that tells the thyme”?
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Dwarf Daffodils for Spring Colour
Would you like dwarf daffodils for spring colour in your garden? Some are guaranteed to liven up dull days with
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Giant Scabious, Wildlife Friendly Architectural Plant
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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14 Slug and Snail Resistant Herbaceous Perennials
These 14 slug and snail resistant herbaceous perennials are just a few of the numerous herbs, shrubs, and other plants
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11 Ground Cover Plants for Your Shady Front Garden
11 Ground cover plants for your shady front garden could almost be called 11 herbaceous perennials for a shady border.
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Planting ideas for Summer Bedding
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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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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Is a Palm Tree Really a Tree?
Is a palm tree really a tree? You may wonder why I’m even putting the question: of course it’s a
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9 Edible Annual Flowers to Grow in Your Garden
9 Edible annual flowers to grow in your garden from seed or from plug plants. Or indeed from seedlings given
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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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Is Yours a Shady or a Sunny Garden?
Do you have a shady or a sunny garden? This question seems to have come up a lot recently. Could
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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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9 Blue Hardy Annual Flowers for Bees
9 Blue hardy annual flowers for bees to give you a cheap way to achieve garden to enjoy over the
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