Review: Garden to Save the World
We all know how gardens how help us individually but do they really make a bigger difference? In Garden to . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #432
A new favourite flower for this week’s dose of floral cheer. This is part of my 2024 Gardening Trials and . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #431
One of my new roses for this week’s cheerful flower. This was a birthday present this year and has just . . .
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New Flowers Debut at Ball Colegrave
I’ve been out to wholesale plant firm Ball Colegrave for a preview of some of the new bedding for 2025 . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #430
I couldn’t resist using this for today’s cheerful flower – just look at those colours! This rather lovely petunia was . . .
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Review: The Self-Sufficiency Garden
Many gardeners grow a bit of veg – a tomato plant or two, some herbs or lettuce but how easy . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #429
Today’s cheerful flower is a first bloom from one of the many annuals I’ve grown. This rather beautiful double cosmos . . .
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Top Picks at RHS Hampton 2024
Sustainability was the buzz word at RHS Hampton 2024 – growing for pollinators, peat-free, and designing gardens that will withstand . . .
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Cheering Up Mondays #428
There’s was really only one choice for today’s cheerful flower, the Rose of the Year 2025, which was launched last . . .
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Review: The Money-Saving Gardener
Gardening can be an expensive hobby – compost, tools and, of course, plants. Yet, it is possible to create something . . .
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