Cheering up Mondays #25
Iris unguicularis is dull for most of the year but in late winter!
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Plant sourcing for the pros
When we’re gazing at a medal-winning garden at one of the summer’s many shows, how many of us stop and . . .
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Product review: Fiskar Xact™ Weed Puller
Duelling with dandelions “Over-engineered,” muttered my other half as we struggled to get the generous quantity of packaging off the Fiskar . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #24
Pretty and pink.
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Box Open Gardens 2016
Restraint, revamping and retro For self-confessed ‘plantaholics’ Wendy Rochefort and Andrew Dawes show remarkable restraint in their garden, part of . . .
Read moreOnline plant nursery guide launches
A chance remark by Monty Don on BBC Gardeners’ World has led to a project to support independent nurseries and the . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #23
There’s nothing quite like a carpet of Anemone blanda in the spring.
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Chelsea change welcomed
Hospice to get inside view of flower show When I catch up with Royal Horticultural Society judge Richard Sneesby, he’s . . .
Read moreReview: Gardens of the Italian Lakes
Friends smiled when they heard I was reviewing Steven Desmond’s Gardens of the Italian Lakes. We are known as the . . .
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Nursery holds garden contest
Young gardeners are being encouraged to have a go at creating their own garden in a competition run by a . . .
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