Flower Gardening Trials 2024
Summer, what little we had this year, already seems so long ago. The weather’s been horrible and the garden’s in . . .
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Category: Featured
Review: Gardeners’ World The Flower Book
It’s the time of year to be thinking about calendars, diaries and how to get through the long winter months . . .
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The Best Flowers to Plant for Pollinators
Attracting bees and butterflies to your garden – a sponsored guest blog post written by Mr Fothergill’s. A garden buzzing . . .
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The 2024 Tomato Gardening Trials
Despite the less than ideal weather and a late start sowing seed, I’ve had a bumper crop with some interesting . . .
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Review: Gardening The Complete Beginner’s Guide
Gardening can seem a very complicated thing to those who’ve never tried it. Latin names and technical terms are bandied . . .
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Review: Cordless Stihl Brushcutter
The grass is always left long under our old apple tree because it’s planted with bulbs. Long grass is also . . .
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Review: British Flowerpots
I can never resist a beautiful garden pot. I use them a lot for seasonal displays and, when your soil . . .
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Review: A Year of Flower Wreaths
It won’t be long before I’ll start thinking about making the Christmas wreath – having one that’s homemade is a . . .
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Review: Chrysanthemums by Naomi Slade
For many years, I’ve told anyone who would listen that I thought chrysanthemums were going to be the next big . . .
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Autumn at RHS Harlow Carr
I ticked off another ‘must see’ garden on my recent Harrogate trip with a visit to Harlow Carr, the most . . .
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