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Improving Your Garden For Pleasure

December 29, 2012

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Though maintaining a home always sounds like something that can be fun, personal and creative, it is often easy to let the boring sides of home ownership take over. For example, things like making repairs, applying new paint jobs, keeping up with you

Five Things You Must Know About Japanese Knotweed

December 21, 2012

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The World Conservation Union marks it as one of the world’s 100 most invasive species of plant, and if you find it on a domestic property it can put an end to mortgage application. But what is Japanese knotweed and why is it such a problem? What is i

Making A Big Deal of A Small Garden

December 20, 2012

by F&F

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With many of us downsizing, a smaller house usually inevitably means a smaller garden as well. We’re so used to upsizing everything our whole lives, making everything bigger and better, it can come as a shock when we have less room and less space to

Wheelie bin covers and garden storage

December 19, 2012

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It’s that time of year again, when we really give up on our gardens! Now there may be a few of us diligently pruning and preparing for Spring, but many of us will have taken the opportunity on a cold foggy December day to order our Summer bulbs, seed

Our Top Tips for Winter Gardening

December 10, 2012

by F&F

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Winter is hardly the season to start planting flowers and plants but keen gardeners will know that winter is a very important time for your garden. Winter gives garden owners the opportunity to plan for the New Year and gives you the opportunity to r

The prettiest pots and planters

December 7, 2012

by F&F

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If you’ve got as small a garden as I have, you’ll know how important it is to find lovely planters, rather than just any old boring pots. They’re as important as the plants themselves, like the clothes on a beautiful woman. I’

Lovers of trees

December 2, 2012

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Improving the look of your outdoor rooms, conservatories and patios

November 27, 2012

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Improving the look of your outdoor rooms, conservatories and patios

A few simple tips and DIY magic tricks for quickly and easily transforming an indoor-to-outdoor space A very popular DIY solution to the no-garden/small-garden situation is to re-think your unorthodox outdoor space and find neat transitions which ble

Lit up by bulbs

November 19, 2012

by F&F

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My last post was rather wistful, melancholy, about autumn. But I do, in many ways, look forward to what comes after. For instance, autumn is the season when I get my brightest acrylic paints out and daub the garden with colour: buried underground col

Making Your Garden Child Friendly, Part Two: the Playhouse

November 12, 2012

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Having a child friendly garden is something that most parents do want. To get your children outside in the garden playing is more often than not a difficulty with all the electronic entertainment around. You may be an enthusiastic gardener and would

When the autumn leaves start to fall

October 24, 2012

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The leaves are falling thick and fast now. I love sweeping them up from around the front of my house into bright candy-coloured drifts. As I tidy, and tidy, and tidy over again, I look back over the garden, note the spaces and start to plot my planti

Making Your Garden Child Friendly – Part One: the Climbing Frame

October 17, 2012

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Making your garden child friendly without making it somewhere where you can’t relax can sometimes be a hard balance to strike. You have realised the dilemma that you really want your children to be outside playing in the garden a lot more, but do not