Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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There have always been gradual shifts in the way you plan, plant and care for your garden, but among the professionals – landscape designers, horticulturists and nurseries – who help shape your thinking, the shift has been seismic over the past year.

American Farmhouse Style

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Here’s a secret to instantly expand the usable square footage of your home: Think of your outdoor spaces as rooms. While you obviously won’t be relaxing outside with a cocktail in December or January, spring weather is peeking through the clouds, and

Garden Gate

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This spade is made of steel and is a heavy-duty, well-constructed garden tool that will last through generations of gardeners. The 15-inch-long straight blade cuts like a breeze because of the sharp bevel that’s engineered to abrade the soil and shar

The English Garden

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When is a weed not a weed? That is the perennial question. Foxgloves, snapdragons, forget-me-nots and primroses all have decorative function but given half a chance will quickly consume more than their allotted space. Others, like Japanese knotweed,

Liz Earle Wellbeing

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From crocuses to daffodils and cherry blossom, the gardens at Kew explode with colour in March and April. Get lost in the magnificent yellow of the daffodils flowering along the Great Broad Walk borders or the mauve-purple of the crocus carpets on th

Country Homes & Interiors

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Visit... ‘Pythouse Kitchen Garden, West Hatch, Tisbury (01747 870444, pythousekitchengarden.co.uk). A great restored walled garden with dedicated vegetable beds and a cut-flower patch. The produce is used in the garden’s restaurant and you can pick-y

Cottages and Bungalows

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Combine classic garden species like roses with perennials like echinacea. Use pastel colors for a soft, harmonious color scheme. If you have the room, craft borders with potted or herbaceous plants to organize and control your space. Layer borders w

Amateur Gardening

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THE people have spoken and after thousands of votes were cast, Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ was crowned People’s Plant of the Decade. Visitors selected the Japanese snowball from the line-up of previous winners of the RHS Che

Indianapolis Monthly

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Eric Doepp doesn’t always follow the rules when it comes to the ancient art of bonsai. He has grown his business, Fountain Square Bonsai (1336 Shelby St., fsqbonsai.com), by sometimes breaking tradition—uniquely potting his little trees in vintage be

Woman's Own

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Have a wander through the Palm House and Tropical Ravine, with its jungle of tropical ferns.  Nose around the fascinating flower borders and greenhouses, and wander the ‘thinking path’ at Charles Darwin’s former garden. A beautiful public oasis wit

Independent on Saturday

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Gardeners all agree that pottering about in the soil, getting plants to thrive and produce blooms or food, gives them a natural boost and a spring in their step. Here are 10 really good reasons why you should join the trend… today. See http://bit.ly/

Backpacker

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BY OLIVIA DWYER HERE’S HOW A SLINKY STOP works. You lag behind the crew, all heavy legs and labored breaths. Then—sweet relief!— your hiking partners halt to nosh trail mix and gulp water. But as you catch up, the uber-fit alpha at the front announce

Victoria

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A financial adviser who retired to a second career in landscape design, June Mays recognized a worthy investment for her family in a historic Alabama home. “We had attended parties in this house,” she says, “and loved the location, its grace, its per

Australian Home Beautiful

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Idyllic and quaint, this English-style garden on the outskirts of Launceston in Tasmania is an oasis of European charm, settled on hills dotted with grand peppermint eucalypts and kookaburras. “There was no garden or house when we bought the land 17

The English Garden

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• Weed, tidy and water bare soil before applying a layer of organic matter, such as well-rotted farmyard manure or garden compost. This will help to reduce water evaporation. • Support herbaceous perennials by pushing peasticks into the soil around e

Style At Home

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ABOUT ME I’m Sarah Jarman, 46, a graphic designer and enthusiastic Instagrammer@sarahjarmanalexander. I live here with my husband Paul Alexander, 50. Our home is a four-bedroom three-storey Victorian townhouse in Leeds, with an 8x10m back garden. MY

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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The coastal gardens of Argyll offer exotic species, blue Himalayan poppies, towering rhododendrons and some of the most breathtaking scenery in the British Isles. The viewpoint at Arduaine looks out over islands that bask like seals in sunshine. At C

National Park Journal

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Fish the legendary waters of the Rio Grande River that meets the South Fork in town or try fly fishing with a local guide. If you’re a golfer, head to the Rio Grande Golf Course, a difficult but spectacular mountain course. Bring a car, ATV, jeep or

Caravan and Outdoor Life

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The one thing that struck me immediately on my arrival at Kleine Bela, was the sheer size of some of the trees – particularly the huge Wurgvy (Ficus craterostoma) which is said to be one of the largest and oldest trees of its kind in Limpopo. Koos an

Woman's Own

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1 It’s time to get your lawn in good shape, so either lay turf or scatter seeds over bare patches – you’ll find special types for particular areas such as shady spots. 2 Deadhead plants in window boxes and hanging baskets as well as dahlias, penst

South African Home Owner

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Follow these top tips to give your garden a much-needed boost and keep Jack Frost at bay. • Fill bare patches of lawn by transplanting runners (sideways-growing pieces with some roots) from couch, kikuyu or LM Berea grass. • Give deciduous fruit tre

Real Homes

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Summer house (inc. electrics, insulation and materials) £4,000 Furniture, accessories and paint £1,600 Sandstone and gravel £1,150 Plants and turf £900 Timber (decking and sleepers) £540 Total £8,190 Plants and turf Newbridge Nurseries, 01403 2

The English Garden

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Catmint is a border stalwart, teaming particularly well with roses. Try ‘Six Hills Giant’. Generous amounts of deep crimson, velvety blooms on this fragrant shrub rose. Tubular purple-pink flowers emerge from darker calyces on this frost-hardy plan

BBC Gardeners' World

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Planting up your container is an easy, fun and create process. Follow these simple steps to make sure that your pot provides the right conditions for all your plants to thrive and that you arrange them in the best way to show them off to full advanta

Backpacker

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Secure a permit at the Kuchel Visitor Center, where you’ll get directions and a code to the locked entry. Past the gate, drive another 6 miles to the Tall Trees trailhead. Set out through a mixed understory of fir and rhododendron (blooming May and J

Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine

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There’s no sweeter way to celebrate 100 years of Michigan’s beautiful state parks than with an overnight camping adventure. And for countless camping families, especially those headed Up North on I-75, a pit-stop in Clare is part of that tradition. J

Simply You

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For those who are more at ease surrounded by structure, Buxus, which comes in many varieties, is beloved as topiary and low hedging. Slow-growing and suitable for a range of conditions, it’s relatively easy to care for and shape. Pair with fresh whit

BBC Gardeners' World

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Patio clematis have been bred to grow in containers. This one makes a resounding splash of colour to wake up the August garden. FJul-Sep HxS1.2m x 1m In my garden, penstemons work best in containers, as by August my borders are a tall mêlée of perenn

BBC Gardeners' World

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Exclusive book extract! MONTY shares the joy of birds in our gardens, and how to help them thrive Healthy eating – discover the best apples PLUS how to harvest through winter Pruning – find the best lopper for you as we put them to the test

Garden & Gun

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The Memphis suburb of Olive Branch, Mississippi, is home to the country’s largest collection of miniature trees. Brussel’s Bonsai Nursery is roughly the size of New York’s Grand Central Station and stocks some 100,000 tiny trees, from $33 dwarf jades