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Mulching to feed your soil
Feed your soil We are often encouraged to apply feeds and fertilisers to plants in our garden. However, mulching can create the basic foundation for happy and healthy plants by improving the soil. If you're lucky, you may have a garden with beautiful crumbly soil...
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Semi-Ripe Cuttings – When, What and How
When to take Semi-ripe Cuttings You can take semi-ripe cuttings from plant stems and use them to grow new plants for free. They are just one type of stem cutting; you can take different types of cutting through the year - Hardwood cuttings are taken from November to...
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Herbs for Aromatic and Wildlife-friendly Gardens
Herbs in the Garden Herbs, rather than short-lived flowers, can provide fragrance all year round in the garden with their aromatic, often evergreen, leaves. Brush past a mint or sage plant or rub the leaves of lavender or thyme between your fingers and the herb leaves...
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Seed Collecting Tips
Seed Collecting Your garden, and other green spaces, are constantly producing seed from their existing plants. Flowering plants strive to reproduce and spread themselves by a range of different means. However, seed production is one of the most successful as the...
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Autumn Colour with Small Garden Trees
Autumn Colour with Small Garden Trees When many flowering plants are finishing for the year you can still have autumn colour with small garden trees through their leaves and berries. When choosing trees for a small garden you need to check the eventual height and...
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Long Flowering Viola cornuta
Long Flowering Still looking beautiful as summer slides into autumn, the long flowering Viola cornuta is a small (up to 15cm), but tough, border plant . Its clear blue flowers start in late spring and continue all the way through to September. It performs well in...
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Garden Design Tips for Beginners
Colour Schemes Pick a limited range of colours you like and stick to those. This will give your garden a clear theme and make it pleasing to look at. People tend to choose purple/pink/blue/white or yellow/orange/red. But contrasts with purple/orange/yellow can also...
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Scented Phlox
Scent is often something that is overlooked when we are choosing plants for our garden. We are captivated by flowers and colours and forget the added pleasure of fragrance. During this long, warm and dry summer I've been sitting outside in my garden almost every day...
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Plants for Shade
Most gardens have at least one area that is in the shade. This could be caused by nearby buildings, walls, trees or hedges. But it is still possible to create a beautiful and interesting feature out of a shady area by using plants are adapted to cope with woodland...
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Growing Flowers for Bees
Reasons to help Bees As farming practices change and urban areas increase, the natural habitat of bees is in decline. But gardens can play a very important role in supporting bees by providing places for them to shelter, breed and hibernate as well feed. We rely on...
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