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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Shrubs
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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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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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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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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16 Deer Resistant Shrubs for Clay Soil
Yes, 16 deer resistant shrubs for clay soil is quite specific. But rather than merely looking at deer proof plants,
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Scented Roses, rose bushes, climbers, fragrant flowers
“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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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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How to Air Layer Roses – Propagation Techniques
How to air layer roses is one of the various vegetative methods for propagating roses. Whether the parent is a
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Companion Plants For Roses
Companion plants for roses is a foray into why mixing plants is a good idea aesthetically and for controlling pests
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Flowering Shrubs for Late Summer Colour
Why flowering shrubs for late summer colour? Well, because it seems such a pity that so many gardens are full
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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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Why has my Blue Hydrangea turned Pink?
Why has my blue Hydrangea turned pink? Or conversely – why has my pink Hydrangea turned blue? Hydrangeas are a
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Scented Shrubs for Christmas Morning
Scented shrubs for Christmas morning .. can you imagine walking out into your garden to pick sprays of fragrant flowers
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9 Shrubs and Trees for Stunning Autumn Foliage
Shrubs and trees for stunning autumn foliage has suggestions for plants that will turn your autumn garden into a blaze
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Buddleia – Butterfly Bush or Beast?
Why am I posing the question: Buddleia – Butterfly Bush or Beast? Because there is a lot of conflicting information
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Cornus – Dogwood – Colourful Winter Stems
Cornus, commonly known as Dogwood, provides us with colourful stems of red, orange, purple, black, yellow and lime green in
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5 Scented Flowering Shrubs for a Midsummer Garden
Scented flowering shrubs for a midsummer garden – the month of June, should hopefully give us balmy weather in which
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Evergreen Shrubs for Foliage Interest
Not all evergreens are just green. Evergreen shrubs for foliage interest are frequently suggested as being the solution to an
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Camellias – Cornish Gardens in the Spring
Cornish Gardens are a delight at all times of the year. The gentle climate, particularly in the southern coastal areas, enables
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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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10 Winter Flowering Shrubs – Planting Ideas for your Garden
Winter flowering shrubs have a place in virtually every garden. Whilst some of them are grown primarily or purely for their
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Rose gardens – the scent of paradise
Roses are one of those flowers that need to have a perfume. There’s such a choice from delicate through to
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