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The BBC is searching for its young gardener of the year in a new competition, in news which might interest greenhouse enthusiasts. Organised by BBC Three, the contest is open to all horticulturalists who are aged between 16 and 25 … [ Read More ]
Gardening can have a huge impact on the way people view the world and the way they interact with it, according to one expert. Tim Rumball, editor of Amateur Gardening magazine, remarked that cultivating crops in an outside space or … [ Read More ]
Featured Blogger: Jean Vernon
The July Greenhouse is a hungry beast and to get the very best from your greenhouse and your plants it’s essential to keep up with feeding to ensure a prolific and healthy harvest. For precious plants and specialist plants, choose … [ Read More ]
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is launching National Gardening Week for April 16th to 22nd 2012, news which may interest greenhouse enthusiasts across the UK. In a bid to educate the country on the joys of gardening and encourage them … [ Read More ]
Taking off dead bloom every day is the key to successfully growing flowers in hanging baskets, an expert has said. In an article for Portsmouth newspaper The News, Brian Kidd said this is a vital part of keeping them healthy, … [ Read More ]
A man with two greenhouses has managed to grow a dahlia with a flower head diameter of 11 inches. Howard Edley of Sheffield was astonished when one of six flowers he had purchased just kept growing, the Sheffield Star reports. … [ Read More ]
Thousands of gardeners and greenhouse enthusiasts had a prehistoric experience during the first day of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Flower Show. Chester Zoo has provided a Dinosaurs at Large exhibition for the Tatton Park event, which is scheduled to … [ Read More ]
Chillies: we Brits love ‘em! Over the past decade the English palette has become used to an increasing amount of tastes and flavours from around the world. This is down to a wide range of influences including emigration, TV celebrities, … [ Read More ]
I normally have such rotten luck with basil – rotting, wilting, keeling over at who knows what – that this year I spread the risk. Rather than rely on the famously stroppy sweet basil for all my basil needs, I … [ Read More ]
Greenhouse enthusiasts who had hoped to cast their eye over the plants and flowers at Liverpool's Festival Gardens will have to wait until September. The site has been undergoing a £3.7 million refurbishment since February 2010 and the work had … [ Read More ]
