Quick Tips for Keeping Cool in Your Garden
Quick tips for keeping cool in your garden (and elsewhere) does exactly what it says. For medium and longer term
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Seasonal: Summer
Plants don’t take Holidays: How to keep your garden alive while you do!
Wouldn’t it be amusing if when you went to Portugal for two weeks; your garden went on holiday to Cornwall? If only!
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Spice up Your Summer Borders
Do you have a garden that is wonderfully colourful in spring … but then by mid-June is a desert of
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Sowing seeds in August
Sowing seeds in August – perhaps not the most obvious of gardening tasks to many, but an easy one and
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Tips for Summer Gardening
Tips for summer gardening – to keep your garden busy and you relaxed and enjoying the balmy weather (when it
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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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5 Herbs for your BBQ
The 5 herbs for your BBQ that I’ve chosen here are all perennial herbs, so will provide you with seasoning
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Five Yellow Flowers for Late Summer and Early Autumn Gardens
Five yellow flowers! I hear you exclaim. Did you think garden designers didn’t like yellow flowers? Let’s just clear up
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Midsummer Gardens
You may be wondering why I’m talking about Midsummer gardens already when we’re only in the first half of June,
Herbs for Summer Salads
Herbs for summer salads – ideas for some obvious and less obvious herbs for you to grow and eat. Are
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5 Tall Flowers for Midsummer Gardens
5 Tall Flowers for Midsummer Gardens is here to inspire you and give you ideas for planting designs and flower
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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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Sunflowers and the Summer Solstice
Why sunflowers and the summer solstice particularly? There could be lots of reasons, but I particularly like these three: –
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8 Ways to Keep Cool in Your Garden
Ways to keep cool in your garden, staying cool outside in hot weather. Whether you’re actively gardening in hot weather
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A Walled Garden on a Summer’s Afternoon
Imagine if you will a walled garden on a summer’s afternoon. A productive garden, beautiful in its bounty of edibles.
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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 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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10 June Wedding Flowers from Your Garden
Okay, so it may actually be a bit late to be thinking about flowers for your June wedding this year,
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How to have a flower bomb August Garden
Last week’s blog looked at some ideas for plants that would give you a flower bomb August garden, and tips
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Flower bomb– August gardens
We’ve had a lot of sun and a lot of showers this summer and many of our August gardens are
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Strawberries and champagne – Grow your own Wimbledon treat
Admittedly it’s a bit late to start growing your own strawberries for this year’s Wimbledon, never mind planting a vineyard from
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Summer Gardens – Architectural Plants
This isn’t a blog about drought tolerant planting (that’s another one) but some suggestions for planting, particularly architectural plants, that
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Strawberries, seeds and tennis
Did you know that there are over 200 seeds in the average strawberry? That’s more seeds than are appearing at Wimbledon this year.
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