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Rose Pruning in Spring is a Snip

Snip away at your roses in spring before Easter and the new stems and leaves will help produce some great summer flowers. For big flowers on HT roses disbud so one good one is allowed to flower per stem and you will be rewarded by potentially growing the ‘best in show’

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Hellebore Heaven or Hell

Hellebore will grow in heaven, hell is too hot to contemplate

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Five Soil Types

Which of these five soil types do you garden with

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Bits of Gardeners Jargon

A light hearted look at some bits of gardeners jargon and oft used words and sayings.

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Tips for Growing Sweet Violets – Viola odorata

A century ago Sweet Violets were part of the Victorian way of life. Florists and street vendors sold them and ladies carried or wore them. Since ancient Greek times and through medieval times Sweet Violets were more than a flower or scent, they were used as a sweetener, a deodorant and medicinal uses.

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Growing Cosmos – Easy Annuals

Cosmos! What a stonking name for a plant evoking all the constellations in the Universe. Growing Cosmos Cosmos flowers are a ring of broad petals and a center of disc florets similar to a daisy. Cosmos flowers are 2-4 inches in diameter. There is a lot of color variation including white, pink, orange, yellow, chocolate [...]

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Autumn Blues

Every colour has its day and for blue that is often in Autumn. This is a selection of our blue to purple plants showing off during mid to late October. If you ‘have the blues’ go out into a garden and inspect growing plants of whatever colour.

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Garden Terms for Beginners

What is a Tree or Shrub There are no hard and fast horticultural rules for these perennial plants. Trees are generally larger than shrubs and bushes. A tree is a woody plant that produces a single trunk and an elevated head of branches. Small trees are defined in the UK as 15-30 feet tall whilst [...]

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Plant Hardiness Ratings

Learn to understand hardy plants and how to help them survive via hardiness zones and ratings

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Funs, Puns, Quips and Snips for gardeners

Gardening is no Laughing matter, the joke is usually on the gardener Naughty Gardeners Quips There was a young man from Australia on his bottom he painted a dahlia the heat of the ball caused the petals to fall and the scent was a bit of a failure What is long and thin, covered in [...]

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