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Fabulous native plants

July 22, 2011
by F&F
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Forget about flashy exotic plants: some of the coolest flowers have been growing right on your doorstep for years.
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Patio wildflowers

July 18, 2011
by Sarah-Bird
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She may not have sweeping pastures in which to plant a meadow, but Sarah Bird has planted up her own beautiful wildflower container garden.
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Cooking with wild garlic

May 17, 2011
by F&F
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Don't just stand and sniff at the full-throttle scent of wild garlic: get yourself a bunch of its leaves and flowers and start cooking.
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Snake’s head fritillary

April 13, 2011
by F&F
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The snake's-head fritillary is utterly mesmerising. Fall in love with it, then learn how to grow it and naturalise it in long grass for the most enchanting display.
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Wild snowdrops

February 6, 2011
by F&F
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We stumble upon some stunning wild snowdrops.
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The lovely lawn

September 26, 2010
by F&F
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At F&F, we don't really worship lawns. In fact, we think they're normally pretty boring. So here's our manifesto for the lovely, low-carbon lawn which will welcome wildlife and make you very, very happy.
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The mini meadow

August 1, 2010
by F&F
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Poppies and cornflowers are quite the prettiest of weeds. This year, I decided to jazz up my vegetable patch using a packet of wildflower seeds from The Balcony Gardener. I followed the normal steps for creating a meadow, and sowed the seeds in rows
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F&F loves…

May 29, 2010
by F&F
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…these fabulous seed grenades from Suck UK. Filled with wildflower seeds and soil, these grenades will help any would-be guerilla gardeners jazz up dull and neglected spots of land. And they look fabulous.
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Dandelion fritters

April 26, 2010
by F&F
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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
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Municipal meadow

June 16, 2009
by F&F
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Believe it or not, this wildflower meadow is slap-bang in the centre of Southampton. It seems the council have seeded it in a rather dull bed of ornamental grasses. This new municipal planting seems to be growing in popularity: last year we found a m
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Cow parsley

May 13, 2009
by F&F
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Isn’t cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) just marvellous? In May the roadsides become frothy and playful, and rather fun, until a goon clutching a strimmer butchers these gorgeous white umbellifers. Cow parsley, or Queen Anne’s Lace, if you’re intro
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Prim and proper

April 22, 2009
by F&F
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Nothing is quite so cheering about the English spring as the Primrose, Primula vulgaris. And nothing is quite so depressing as the sight of bright yellow, pink and red cultivars bringing ‘spring colour’ to miserable-looking beds. These ga
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