Woman's Weekly Living Series

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The exotic looking pink South African bulb can be relied upon to give a welcome late splash of summer colour amid autumnal hues. One of the best late-flowering bulbs, Nerine bowdenii loves a dry spot at the base of a hedge or foot of a south-facing w

Country Style

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PERCHED GAMELY ON THE EDGE of the forest, above a no-through gravel road, Ray Brodie Cottage has something of the fairytale about it. Koalas doze in the stringybarks, black cockatoos beat by in formation, sounding their sad cries, and in the gully be

Homes & Gardens

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ORIENTATION West facing but shady owing to a park with large mature trees to the south side. SOIL TYPE London clay. SPECIAL FEATURES Tree ferns, textural planting and a concrete terrace. GARDEN DESIGN Tom Stuart-Smith, 020 7253 2100, tomstuartsmith.c

Amateur Gardening

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Tend your baskets every few days by deadheading, trimming any plants that are swamping others and, if necessary, replacing any failing plants. FOR bringing colour up to buildings and for decorating the vertical spaces of gardens small and large, you

Pip Permaculture Magazine

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This beautiful Form Boss three-tiered planter is an ideal way to create an instant kitchen garden in any garden space. Suitable for growing vegetables, herbs and small trees such as dwarf apple or citrus varieties. And receive a free packet of seeds

Amateur Gardening

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Incredible value for money and ideal for getting ahead of the game, these trays of small plants will give you dozens of plants when grown on, for ultimate 'flower power' in your garden! Grow them on in pots in a frost-free location, for around 5 week

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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This tropical plant with its large leaves can be used as a structural plant to provide lush shadiness. Although not usually found in Thailand, this beech hedge can be used to provide a sense of privacy and lush foliage in a garden. Grown indoors in

go: Platteland

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I trained as an ecologist, so when I started my Cape coastal garden I selected plants already growing wild on the site and nearby. Most of the planting and serious propagating happened three years ago, at the start of the worst drought in recorded hi

Country Homes & Interiors

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This extraordinary walled garden is actually a former covered game larder which, centuries ago, served an extensive country estate in Wiltshire. Confined by the former building’s walls, this 40 by 25 metre, now-open-topped enclave harbours a flourish

Country Homes & Interiors

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We have a beautiful south-facing suite in the old servants’ quarters, which we’ve named the Potagerie Suite because of the most fantastic view it presents of the walled garden below. There’s nowhere else like it in the house. I love the dappled light

The English Garden

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• This is a good time to plant new hedges. Order bare-root hedging plants during winter’s dormant period, or for quicker results try instant mature hedging from a supplier such as Practicality Brown (pracbrown.co.uk). • Clean greenhouse glass to ensu

Homes & Gardens

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At first glance, Yews Farm appears to be a quintessential English garden. Grass paths, framed by clipped box and espaliered apples, converge beneath an old pear tree. But the detail is created less conventionally by architectural planting rather than

BBC Gardeners' World

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This is a very good tree for a middle-sized garden: ace fruit and interesting leaves in the autumn, but it is for its winter flowers that we really love this plant. Imagine, if you would, waking up on a cold February morning, flinging open your bedro

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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With summer’s hot colours coming to an end it’s time to look elsewhere for a vibrant blast and one of the best is Aloe ‘Echidna’. Not to be confused with the medicinal Aloe vera, this spectacular South African flowering hybrid shines as conditions co

Country Homes & Interiors

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It has not been easy to find refuge from recent events, but there is one place I know I can rely on. Pevensey & Westham Community Forest Garden is an acre and a half of former allotment land in East Sussex, and an unexpected haven. From the entrance

NPR

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Social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus might leave you with some extra time — and an opportunity to spruce up your garden.

Country Life

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As spring advances, the opportunity arrives to plant evergreen shrubs. Dig a hole somewhat bigger than the rootball of the intended specimen. Break up the base and sides of the hole with a fork. Pick up the shrub and loosen the fibres of the rootball

Kitchen Garden

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If your plot is prone to flooding in the winter months, I would go for a spring planting variety or start the sets off in 9-10cm (3½-4in) pots instead. Starting the sets off in pots is very easy and allows you to move them to a warmer or drier spot i

The English Garden

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If you do a little bit of discreet staking in spring it really pays dividends later in the year. I always used to hope that my peonies would stay up on their own, but they won’t, so I now use metal hoops to support them. Deadhead as often as possibl

Woman's Own

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In fabulous fiery coral and lime green, this new evergreen poker will make an eye-catching addition to any garden. Plant in the middle of a border or pop in a container and place in a sunny spot and it will reward you with flowers from July to Octobe

The English Garden

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MOST NOTABLE GARDENS ARE developed over a lifetime, or at least a few decades, but very few evolve as rapidly as the flower gardens at Malverleys in Hampshire. In just eight years, head gardener Mat Reese has orchestrated a series of borders that del

Country Life

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Your championship sweet peas now reach a key stage in their development. The long pots of seedlings should be retrieved from the cold frame and brought to their final positions. These will be marked by a double row of tall canes securely tied at the

Kitchen Garden

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Haxnicks’ Grower Frame system has long been a staple for gardeners without greenhouses. New for 2021 is the Compact Grower Frame, a half-length version for people with less space. Made from tubular steel rods that slot together to make a sturdy, rust

The English Garden

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When garden designer Sean Walter was asked by his friend, the interior designer Charlotte Crosland, to remodel the garden behind her Notting Hill house after a new garden studio had been added, he couldn’t have been happier. “I’ve worked with Charlot

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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It takes a concrete jungle to remind us of the power of flowers, the freshness of foliage and how a cacophony of colour can be corralled to soften sharp edges and dilute the jarring sounds of busy city streets. The City of Sydney celebrates the comin

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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I hold the late, great plantswoman Beth Chatto personally responsible for my hellebores obsession following a visit here in early winter 2011. Head to the Woodland Garden to find the nodding pink, plum, white, green and sometimes mottled heads of thi

BBC Gardeners' World

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• Stop slugs and snails They do most damage in damp weather. Reduce numbers and protect vulnerable plants and seedlings with organic ferric phosphate pellets. • Combat couch grass This is the tough grass that invades flowerbeds. Fork it out as soon a

Amateur Gardening

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Paradise after five years HAVING seen the flowers of strelitzia, or the bird of paradise, at Gran Canaria, I wondered whether I could grow one of these beautiful blooms myself. So I bought a packet of Strelitzia reginae seeds, scarified and soaked

Home

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Pentas Lucky Star ‘Lipstick’ has been bred to re-bloom faster, so it seems to flower non-stop throughout summer. This compact plant (40cm tall and wide) grows best in full sun and thrives in heat and humidity. When first planted, water once a week or

Country Life

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IN spring, a young man’s fancy may lightly turn to thoughts of love. A gardener’s fancy, however, turns to thoughts of primroses and daffodils, of cherry blossom, celandines and snake’s head fritillaries. Yet there is one spring flower that seldom ge