From the monthly archives:
Treat your plants like you would yourself – and you won’t go too far wrong! That’s the advice many new to gardening don’t fully appreciate when they ask for gardening advice. One of the biggest problems facing newbie gardeners is their own lack of self-confidence when faced with cultivating their strange new plants. After all, [...]
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The South West of England is well-known for its glorious ‘spring’ and ‘woodland’ gardens with their extensive and colourful rhododendron and camellia collections but, unfortunately such displays come to an end at the end of May leaving just a mantle of green for the summer visitor. This was my own view when I discovered a derelict and forgotten Victorian [...]
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As a self-confessed plantsman actively cultivating around 3,000 different plant varieties in his garden, you can be sure I’ve come across every type of plant label imaginable. Yet, for all that, I haven’t come across one that’s really up to the task of providing the would-be purchaser with all the information they need. On the [...]
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