Hellebore
GardenAction recommend CROCUS as your online supplier of Hellebores. We have personally tested many online gardening suppliers and have found out from personal experience that CROCUS offer excellent value for money, reliability and security. When ... [... more]
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Lavender Varieties
There are in excess of 50 species of Lavender plants which come in a wide variety of sizes, hardiness, flowers and foliage. The main varieties widely available are discussed below. Lavender originates from Southern Europe though they are now ... [... more]
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French Beans, Pest And Disease Advice - Page 4
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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Hydrangea Cuttings
Place three cuttings into 75-mm pots and water in. They will need to be placed on a windowsill or in a glasshouse. The most important consideration is to make sure that the temperature is even through the day. I.e. ... [... more]
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Houseplant Care
Repotting - Most houseplants will grow a lot better if they are regularly potted on into larger pots. If they become potbound, their growth rate will rapidly decrease. As ever, there are exceptions to this, and some ... [... more]
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Turf - Creating A Lawn
To create a lawn from turf requires the same preparation as from seed although one advantage with turf is that if your soil is a clay loam or very lumpy and you cannot create a finely tilthed seed bed suitable for seeding, turfing the area will ... [... more]
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Astilbe
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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Marjoram, Oregano
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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Verbascum
Verbascum chaixii 'album': known as the nettle-leaved Mullein, this perennial is half the height of the larger biennials, but is nevertheless a striking plant. The rosettes of delicate-felted, semi-evergreen foliage provides interest in winter, ... [... more]
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Spruce
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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Japanese Cedar
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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Ornamental Cabbage
Flower beds and containers are often short of colour in the winter months, before spring bedding starts its main display, and the ornamental brassicas provide one way of filling the gap. Ornamental cabbages are actually edible when young, ... [... more]
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