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Who needs a big space when you can think small?

May 21, 2013

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Who needs a big space when you can think small?

Forget the country: the city is where it’s at. It’s where all the really inventive gardening goes on. If you’ve got three acres, you can create a spectacular garden. But if you’ve got a roof or a balcony, or a tiny little pati

Three lovely blue flowers

May 21, 2013

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I love blue flowers. Blue isn’t a colour of nature, and yet it is there, in spring and summer flowers, and so intense too. Here are three of the flowers I love the most, with their deep blue hue. 1. Comfrey Comfrey comes in all sorts of colours

Railway gardens

May 21, 2013

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I might be in a minority here, but I just love suburban train journeys. All the opportunities to spy on people’s back gardens! The journey I love the most starts in the country, where the gardens normally have a field at the bottom running down

Top Tips For Achieving That Perfect Lawn

May 19, 2013

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Top Tips For Achieving That Perfect Lawn

With spring upon us and summer arriving soon, we turn our attention to looking after our gardens. We all want that perfect green lawn in the summer but how do we get it? Well it’s a long process and you have to look after your grass but it’s worth it

Make the Most of Your Small Garden

May 18, 2013

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As demand for property continues to grow, more and more housing is being built into increasingly confined plots. Unfortunately, this means that outdoor space is becoming increasingly precious and many people living in urban properties have to make do

Put a spring in your step

May 15, 2013

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Most gardens are sleeping at present, yet despite little going on above the surface, there is a lot going on underneath. Preparing our gardens for the spring is an exciting yet daunting time and in order to ensure our newly planted seeds are protecte

Crops in pots

April 29, 2013

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The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and, oh, your garden is still too small for a real vegetable patch. Worse, you don’t actually have a garden. Just a balcony or a windowsill will provide your crops, and it’s easy at this stage of

My greenhouse year

April 28, 2013

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This year is my greenhouse year. I’ve been yearning to grow tender crops that need the sort of long growing season that only a greenhouse can provide in this country. These include really big beefsteak tomatoes, especially supermarmande and cow

Garden planters – for more than just plants

April 24, 2013

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Garden planters – for more than just plants

So you think garden planters can only be used for filling with soil and plants? Well, think again! Metal planters in particular make really good water features and can also be used in other ways to enhance your garden. Galvanized steel planters and

Aiming for perfection

April 19, 2013

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Ever since I saw artificial grass on Fennel & Fern and in a London garden, I started to give it more thought than I’d ever done before. Hey, this stuff looked pretty realistic. And the main problem that I have in my garden is that my grass

Taming the garden to leave my mark

April 18, 2013

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Time for a tidy-up! Oh yes: its time for a tidy-up. The reason? The weather is better and I really have no more excuses to stay indoors, pretending that the garden will get on just fine without me. So I’ve got out my tools from Bulldog and I

Garden inspiration to bring home from Florida

April 17, 2013

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Garden inspiration to bring home from Florida

As we head into spring – a time of year that heralds refreshment whenever it does finally arrive – taking a trip abroad to both rest and also gain inspiration can add an extra element to new or renewed activities in the garden. Florida, meaning “Feas