How to choose the right garden clothing
Garden Advice explains about the best clothing to wear when doing your gardening. You're probably wondering, why on earth is this woman going on about clothes. I thought this was supposed to be a gardening web site, not one for the fashion icons ... [... more]
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How to make hydrangea cuttings
An easy plant to propagate from stem cuttings is the hydrangea. You can take cuttings from the plants to produce new plants. One of the easier plants to propagate is a hydrangea from stem cuttings. At the end of the summer you can take cutting ... [... more]
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How to care for house plants
There is a lot of unnecessary worry associated with houseplants, but there needn’t be. Most of them require nothing more than watering, feeding and occasionally potting on. Watering - The most useful piece of equipment is going to be the watering ... [... more]
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How to Grow Lavender
Start page for how to grow lavender. Everything you need to know about this aromatic shrub with pictures to help you choose. Every garden should have a few lavender bushes. Some varieties flower from mid-June to September. The silver foliage ... [... more]
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French Beans Pest and Disease Advice
Brownish spots on the leaves are surrounded by a light coloured 'halo'. This disease comes from the seeds themselves. Possible causes are home-saved seed from the previous year not stored correctly; soaking runner bean seeds before planting; ... [... more]
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Geum 'Lady Stratheden'
Geums are valuable for bringing bright colours to the spring border before the main flowering season gets under way. Varieties of the wild water avens have much more subtle shapes and colouring than the better known border varieties, such as ... [... more]
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Verbascum chaixii 'Album'
This is a striking plant with rosettes of sparsely-felted, semi-evergreen foliage in winter which, in summer, have tall upright spikes of flower growing from the centre of each. These are studded with lots of single, wide-open white flowers, each ... [... more]
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Cryptomeria japonica 'Sekkan-sugi'
A smallish, slow-growing, 1930 American version of the giant Crytomeria japonica, it makes a beautiful small conical evergreen. The new, creamy yellow spring foliage stands out against the dark old leaves; it's greenish-yellow in winter. ... [... more]
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Picea glauca 'Arneson's Blue'
A relative of the best-selling American conifer P. glauca var. albertiana 'Conica' a bushy shrub which has been a major hit since it wasfound in 1904 in the Canadian Rockies but this 'Arneson's Blue' is even more striking. It's a dense, shaggy ... [... more]
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Build a green roof
Adding a green roof to garden buildings such as sheds and storage areas reclaims the space they take up, as well as improving air quality and encouraging wildlife into the garden. Joe Swift shows how to green up your shed. Assess the roof you are ... [... more]
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Astilbe 'Weisse Gloria'
The elegant plumes of colourful feathery flowers make astilbes easily recognisable, but even before they flower the ferny foliage makes a good ground-cover under neighbouring plants. The striking shape of astilbe flowers and their variety of ... [... more]
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Origanum Rosenkuppel
An interesting ornamental-cum-herb which can be grown in herb gardens or to the front of the border, where it makes a short, tidy mound. The stems are purple, the leaves rounded and green, and there are domed heads of rosy purple flowers. It's a ... [... more]
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