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Thinking about the purpose of a garden is a crucial part of designing it effectively, an expert has said. According to Royal Horticultural Society shows organiser Bob Sweet, a garden that is set up for barbeques and football will be … [ Read More ]
Greenhouse enthusiasts looking for climbers that will flower all year round should think about adding different varieties of clematis to their garden, it has been suggested. According to writer and TV presenter Sarah Raven, there is at least one type … [ Read More ]
Featured Blogger: Undercover With Bob Flowerdew
Now anyone with a greenhouse really must have a pot or two of Lippia species. The nomenclatural botanists have fiddled with this genus, so some are also known as Aloysia, and others as Phyla, the names keep changing. However they … [ Read More ]
Featured Blogger: Matthew Biggs Diary
Diary – July 2011 Now’s your last chance to sow biennials. ‘Brompton Stocks’ and ‘Forget me Nots’ are fast growing and can be sown later and slow growing ‘Canterbury Bells’ should be planted in late spring but the remainder need … [ Read More ]
Many Britons are becoming more actively involved in their gardens and adopting a DIY attitude to their outside space. That is the opinion of Robin Williams, managing director of landscape and garden design specialist Robin Williams & Associates, who suggested … [ Read More ]
A great-grandmother in Oxford is entering her local flower competition for the tenth consecutive year. Victoria Baker, 94, has won a number of prizes in the Oxford in Bloom contest over the last decade and this year should be no … [ Read More ]
A while ago I wrote here about planting potatoes in big pots in the greenhouse. Well they grew like the wind, seven (or so) times faster than those in the ground, filling the greenhouse with big, leafy growth. I decided … [ Read More ]
An amateur gardener has won the top prize in her category at her first appearance in a major gardening show. Art teacher Elaine Christian, from Barton Seagrave, exhibited her New Zealand-inspired garden in the Birmingham Borders section at the 2011 … [ Read More ]
Greenhouse and gardening enthusiasts have a role to play in attracting bees and other pollinating insects to their outside space, it has been suggested. According to Dr Roger Williams, head of science at the Royal Horticultural Society, many of these … [ Read More ]
Gardeners and greenhouse enthusiasts who prepared their soil correctly will not suffer any adverse effects if they are faced with a period of drought this summer, an expert has suggested. According to the Huddersfield Examiner's gardening guru Graham Porter, "those … [ Read More ]
