Tips for showing at your local show, keep to schedule present well and have a good time…..
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 [...]
Growing Phlomis Varieties
Phlomis yellow and purple flowers like several ruffs up a stem in candelabra style get the tips treatment
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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Japanese Maple – Root and Branch Review
January 2, 2012
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Norway Spruce Root and Branch Review
January 1, 2012
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Sausage Tree – Root and Branch Review
January 1, 2012
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Olive – Root and Branch Review
January 1, 2012
- Pineberry – The White Strawberry December 30, 2011
- Top Ten Tips For Coleus August 20, 2011
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10 Tips for Taking Flower Photos
September 13, 2011
- Tips for Dealing with Slugs and Snails October 19, 2011
- Rheums are Architectural not Just Rhubarb May 30, 2011
- Growing Habranthus Rain Lily Bulbs May 1, 2011
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