Amateur Gardening

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What do you like most about gardening? I realised recently that for me it was about playing my part in the creation and prolongation of nature. I know that sounds a bit worthy, but it’s true. It’s great when my roses are trouble-free and bloom, and n

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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Thames & Hudson, £19.95 ISBN 978-0500023273 A insightful look into the world of patterns and how they touch and influence our gardens as well as almost everything else around us. Reviewer Benjamin William Pope is head gardener at Trotton Place.

BBC Gardeners' World

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March is a month of countless tiny miracles. Dry seeds bursting into growth, fresh leaves unfurling from the coldest soil, bare branches crackling with tiny flowers – all signs of life emerging daily from the most unpromising beginnings, full of wond

BBC Gardeners' World

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Wind your way through the pleasure garden to an area dedicated to plants for winter flowers, colour and scent. Take notes for your own planting – you’ll be surprised by the range of flowers in bloom right now. Book nationaltrust.org.uk/ osterley-par

Backpacker

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It’s easy to defend the choice to stay dry by saying you’re protecting the trail from getting trenched out, but take a look at the implication: that the trail itself is more important than the area and vegetation it travels through. Widening the trai

The English Garden

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Spectacular plants, setting and people: Great Dixter is the pinnacle of gardening and head gardener Fergus Garrett has produced a whole generation of keen, down-to-earth gardeners. Tel: 01797 252878; greatdixter.co.uk The beautiful surrounding garde

Amateur Gardening

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Subscribe 6 issues for only £6 *amateurgardeningsubs.co.uk/20save – see page 46 24 “Sow these seeds now for gap-filling flowers in a year’s time,” says Anne HOW much has your garden changed since the lockdown? I am amazed at what my fiancée and I ha

Australian Home Beautiful

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Save for a magnolia on one end and a solitary palm up the other, the original yard gave landscape designer Andrew Panton of Andrew Panton Design a blank canvas. “We told Andrew to treat it as his own,” says homeowner Rebecca, who was knee-deep in ren

Hawaii Fishing News

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■ Forty-five women, mostly from Hawai‘i, spent a few days in early September being schooled in outdoor skills during the first-ever “Becoming an Outdoors Woman” (BOW) retreat in Hawai’i. This is the Aloha State’s initial foray into a 20-year-old inte

BBC Gardeners' World

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Several other fast-growing garden shrubs will benefit from the same pruning technique as buddleia. This will trigger either fresh growth that will go on to flower later in the season or cause plants to produce larger, more dramatic leaves. • Catalpa

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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WHAT’S ON? Perth becomes a mecca for wildflower lovers with the 56th Kings Park Festival in September. Called Beauty, Rich and Rare, it offers spectacular wildflower displays, wellness demonstrations, plant sales, guided walks, photography exhibition

The English Garden

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• Remove insulating materials from around plants and pots after the worst of the cold weather has passed. • Clear spring-flowering bedding plants and prepare soil for summer by lightly forking over it, removing weeds and adding fertiliser. • Plant

BBC Gardeners' World

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City bumblebees prefer pink and purple flowers, and perennials over annuals1 . Scientists studied 17 species of urban bumblebee – each has favourite flowers, flower shape is also a factor. Tatton Park, Cheshire, had the best reviews of any National

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

Australian House & Garden

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Hosting a long-awaited lunch with family? Do it in style and comfort with the Orlando eight-piece round outdoor dining setting, $3999. Consisting of a 165 centimetre-diameter table, a lazy susan and six cushioned dining chairs, the Orlando setting is

Homestyle UK

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In a world where calm is wished for, and your own green space may be limited, a NIWA Design Terrarium, available exclusively through Four Store London, is the perfect soothing addition to your home. That’s why we’ve teamed up with them to offer you t

Country Life

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Now is an ideal time to propagate herbaceous perennials. Approach an established clump of cranesbill and work soil away from the edge. Then use the trusty old carving knife found in every gardener’s tool bucket to excise a piece of the plant, complet

Gardens Illustrated Magazine

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Juncus effusus This rush intermingles with Juncus patens ‘Carman’s Gray’ to provide a green matrix in damper areas throughout the year. 1.2m. USDA 4a-9b† . Muhlenbergia capillaris Regal Mist (= ‘Lenca’) Drifts across the meadow just as most other per

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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Each August, he takes cuttings from tender salvias, along with impatiens and plectranthus. ‘Once they are rooting nicely, I pot up in compost, ready to grow slowly over winter under glass.’ Most of the remaining plants are grown from seed as annuals

SA4x4

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A few years back the term ‘Terror Trail’ was coined by SA4x4 staffer Patrick Cruywagen. It aptly described those adrenaline-infused, heart-in-the-mouth, sweaty palm tracks that required lots of guts to attempt, and which delivered equally in terms of

The Classic MotorCycle

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Mathewson’s Motorcycle Auction. Roxby Garage, Pickering Road, Thornton-le-Dale, Pickering, North Yorkshire, YO18 7LH.mathewsons.co.uk. Tel 01751 474455; 07507 210031. Email enquiries@mathewsons.co.uk. 11th Footman James Great Western Classic Car Sho

Log Home Living

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It’s exciting to start seeds indoors at the beginning of the gardening season. Keep an eye on your seedlings’ progress with this easy swap: Instead of growing seeds in black plastic trays, peat liners or other opaque items, use clear plastic drinking

Mountain Bike Rider

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£3,199.99 / 27.5in / bikes.com After six months together and emerging from a full winter of use, the Rocky Mountain and I have reached the next stage of our relationship. We’ve sized each other up, found that there’s an attraction and are now reachi

Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine

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IF YOU’RE INTERESTED in the WESS Enduro World Championship you shouldn’t be surprised to hear that most of the stars of that discipline come from a trials background. With the exception of moto freaks like South African Wade Young, most top riders in

Home

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Brighten up the winter garden with Cineraria ‘Senetti’, a new, taller-growing cineraria hybrid with huge heads of daisy-like blooms in vivid blue or magenta, with white centres. Plants grow up to 60cm with a 45cm spread, and bloom right into summer.

Caravan and Outdoor Life

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Are you into kayaking, quad or mountain biking, boating, or bass fishing? Perhaps just hiking? Heard of Bivane Dam? Planned and built by Impala Water Users Association this resort was completed in 2000 and was built on the Bivane River, a tributary o

Trade-A-Boat

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The team from Mulpha have just announced plans to host a yearly event at Sanctuary Cove that will celebrate all things outdoors, which they're calling OutdoorX. With decades of event-hosting experience, the same team that brings together the hugely s

Psychologies

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GARDENING IS A FANTASTIC PASTIME. The benefits to your wellbeing are endless, but it doesn’t have to mean time alone. Consider ways to be more sociable outdoors. Join a gardening club – they often take trips to formal gardens and host speakers. Explo

Mountain Biking UK

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Route summary A big climb to begin with is followed by some undulation along the top of the South Downs, with an optional exhilarating loop at Devil’s Dyke adding a fun descent but a big climb back up. Then it’s back along the top before a fast, fun

Country Style

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RATHER LIKE OUR BUSINESS, the house and gardens at Wardington Manor have developed in a haphazard way. Built in the 15th century as a nunnery, the house was reconfigured in 1665. It was again reworked in the early 20th century, first by Clough Willia