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{Green Lane Allotments} April round-up

April 30, 2010

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Things are really springing into life on the plot. The few days of lovely weather was the trigger the plants were waiting for. It also spurred us into action. Grass paths have been mowed for the first time this year and the permanently planted fruit

Image of the week

April 30, 2010

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Image by tambrieann If you want to enter your stunning photos for Image of the Week, you can either upload them to the F&F Flickr group, or email contact@fennelandfern.co.uk

Collector’s Item: Magnolias

April 29, 2010

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M. wilsonii If I could only use one species in my garden, I would gladly fill it with magnolias. They are the most beautiful, the most majestic and the most elegant trees. It isn’t just those enormous goblet-shaped flowers that stop me in my tr

A plant to love: Erythronium ‘Pagoda’

April 28, 2010

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I don’t know who it was who called Erythronium the ‘dog’s-tooth violet’, but quite frankly, they must have been terribly confused. While violets are delicate, dainty, and tiny, Erythroniums are fabulous and showy. True, they l

A plant to love: Kerria japonica

April 27, 2010

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This isn’t just a plant to love: it’s a plant to cheer you up. Forget all the pinky-and-perky pastels of spring: big pincushion sprays of Kerria japonica ‘Pleniflora’ are the way forward.

Dandelion fritters

April 26, 2010

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I have adored every single episode so far in Alys Fowler’s The Edible Garden. It has just the sort of happy, floating-about-in-the-garden feeling that I really love, and as well as making me very happy, it has inspired me with some quirky recip

Biodiversity competition

April 26, 2010

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It is desperately important to encourage wildlife into your garden. Not only is it good for fighting nasty pests, but it is also giving back a few of the habitats we have destroyed with our big fat cars, houses and roads. It’s a way of saying t

The wrap-up

April 25, 2010

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{Weekly wrap-up} Hot posts, stories and images from the web this week.

The hot plot: stunning veg

April 25, 2010

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Image by Steve Minor I defy anyone to tell you that vegetables look boring. This bunch of crops are tasty and striking, and far better looking than a lot of purely ornamental plants. When I was writing a post for the Guardian gardening blog on good-l

A plant to love: summer snowflake

April 24, 2010

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I’ve fallen head over heels in love with this plant. In mid-spring each year I fall for it again. I’m not being terribly careless: these gorgeous tiffany-lamp blooms are perfect. Yes, I know it looks a bit like a snowdrop, but come April,

F&F loves…

April 24, 2010

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This beautiful ceramic tableware from Julia Davey. You might not be able to grow anything in these beautiful hand-made, hand-fired products, but this milk jug and matching cup-and-saucer will look fabulous on the table next to luscious servings of yo

Propagating raspberries

April 23, 2010

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I don’t normally feel this Pollyanna-ish about weeding. But when dozens of little raspberry suckers pop up in my veg patch and ask to be pulled up, I can’t help but look on the bright side. Raspberries propagate themselves by sending up s

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