Feeding Plants
Fork organic matter into soil before planting in the spring and mulch existing permanent plant displays with a thick layer of organic matter. Help your plants to thrive by giving them a healthy diet, full of the right nutrients. Here's our guide ... [... more]
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Common Hydrangea
This hydrangea is one of the best blue, flowering varieties in mid-and late summer, with the flowers nicely set against the shiny green leaves. The soil chemistry affects most macrophyllas to some degree, with acid soil giving a colour swing to ... [... more]
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How To Create A Wildflower Meadow
Plant wildflower plugs in autumn. Make holes about 15cm (6in) deep and 5cm (1.9in) in diameter, drop in a handful of compost and plant plug. Water well. Cut grass at the end of summer. For small areas use a strimmer or scythe (a power scythe can ... [... more]
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Plum
A self-fertile plum tree producing yellow-skinned fruit with orange flesh in mid- to late September. The first batch to be picked can be used as cookers, while those left hanging ripen even more and make good dessert plums. Grow in a sunny, ... [... more]
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Montbretia
A long-flowering crocosmia which gets going in July and keeps on to mid-August, giving a flashy mix of deep red flowers and bright green, arching up, sword-like leaves. The corms quickly multiply and produce a very effective clump which can be ... [... more]
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Meadow Phlox
This North American native makes a great show in the early and midsummer border, especially in colourful cottage gardens, with erect, packed spikes of gently scented, lilac-mauve flowers with a dark eye above the dark green leaves. It's often ... [... more]
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Webbs Of Wychbold Garden Centre
At the bottom of the gardens is a section called New Wave Gardens. These include the hawthorn on the right plus themed areas including a pond, woodland garden, prairie, minimal maintenance, coppice and others. These gardens are great at any time ... [... more]
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Dobbies, Atherstone
It's certainly "big", 118,000 sq ft of sales area and a total site size of 53 acres. But does "biggest" mean best? We visited Dobbies at Atherstone and tried, the plants, the restaurant, the toilets, the aquarium and pet centre, the ... [... more]
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Brackenwood Garden Centre, Bristol
As well as ornamental trees, this 12 acre garden centre stocks a very large range of herbaceous plants, conifer trees and many more. If you are looking for unusual plants then this is the place to visit. Brackenwood has supplied Bristol Zoo with ... [... more]
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Garden Centres In Bristol
Bristol is growing in size all the time as is the number of garden centres. We have visited the garden centres and nurseries in Bristol and reviewed them. Everything is looked at including plants, prices, special attractions, disabled facilities, ... [... more]
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Woodlands Garden Centre, Leicestershire
It's also clear that this garden centre is undergoing a major upgrade. In the next few months the facilities will be upgraded to include a 50 seat coffee shop which will also serve a variety of wines. The flower shop (Florista) will be expanded ... [... more]
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Kenpas Nurseries, Coventry
They are on the southern side of the Kenpas Highway at the junction with the A429. You go up a longish driveway and the nurseries are a patch of land behind number 4, Kenpas Highway. Small it may be but Mr Wilson has been raising and selling ... [... more]
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