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Local Show Tips

Tips for showing at your local show, keep to schedule present well and have a good time…..

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Winter is Coming to Your Garden

First the bad news! The London Met Office has warned that the winter 2011/12 will be similar to our last three winters with cold and snow caused by high pressure trapped around our Islands. Now the good news! These long range forecasts are usually rubbish and the opposite may be true. Even better news for [...]

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Growing Phlomis Varieties

Phlomis yellow and purple flowers like several ruffs up a stem in candelabra style get the tips treatment

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Tips for Pinching Out Flowers and Shrubs

Direct a plants energy by pinching out the growing tip of poor shoots

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Courtyard for Planters from Yorkshire

Locally made planters and a range of plants from and for a courtyard in Otley

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Plug for Jersey Direct Plug Plants

Plug plants are an excellent way to acquire plants without the risks, time, space and effort needed with seeds. They are a fantastic way to buy annuals, perennials or bedding plants to fill your garden with colour or get some part grown veg plants. Now is a good time to order spring-flowering wallflowers, primroses, pansies [...]

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Growing Calceolaria (Lady’s Purse)

  This Calceolaria is growing in a plunge bed of gravel inside a large  alpine house. The variety is called Walter Shrimpton and as you can see it is very floriferous given the right conditions. Our local nursery has just started to sell plants of Calceolaria Sunset Red and Sunset Orange and I have bought [...]

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Growing Juicy Red Strawberries

Growing, cultivating and getting great crops of strawberries made easy with these tips

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Garden Clippings

As I search for sensible articles and reports on various garden subjects I collect a range on odd bits of information. Not knowing what is helpful I hope at least one of the following gardeners tip is of use but let’s see how we go. The Chelsea flower show creates trends and the showy plants [...]

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Accidents with Seeds

Things often go wrong in the garden so it is a change when serendipity takes a hand. Recent Accidents In my greenhouse I have a permanent, slatted wooden bench. I must have been careless with some wallflower seeds which have fallen close to the glass, grown and flowered. Every morning for weeks I have gone [...]

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