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Chinese Garden Design – 8 Ideas You Can Use In Your Own Garden
8 peaceful Chinese garden design ideas for your backyard: framing views, moongates, water, rocks, paths and simple planting.
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8 peaceful Chinese garden design ideas for your backyard: framing views, moongates, water, rocks, paths and simple planting.
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An end of September garden tour in West Sussex as summer turns to autumn. Roses flowering again, dahlias at their best, powdery mildew on the verbena, tomatoes and cucumbers still cropping in my 15m2 kitchen garden, Conference pears picked, and My
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In September, overgrown shrubs and floppy roses entice you into dusting off the pruners and tackling some of the undergrowth....
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Here's a shrub with soft blue flowers appearing in late summer and autumn which never fails to pull its weight at this time of the year....
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Create a climate resilient garden without having to start again- how to adapt your planting, watering and mulching to weather extremes.
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September gardening includes giving the grass some TLC, planting spring bulbs and beginning your leaf-mould campaign...
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Another big September tomato harvest from my 15m2 kitchen garden in Chichester, West Sussex. Picking after the rain, cutting down the last three Small Sugar pumpkins, an enormous Femspot cucumber, honest notes on which tomato varieties earned their
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What brings your garden scene together is the hard landscaping, and today we 3Growbags are going to chat about how we handle this subject..
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Solanum laxum 'Album' AGM is a marvellous climber for semi-shade with its dark green glossy leaves as the perfect foil for snow-white flowers
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Don't clear away dead wood in your garden! Re-use it to make it more interesting and wildlife friendly with these ideas from John Little.
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An end of August harvest from my 15m2 kitchen garden in Chichester, West Sussex. Trays of tomatoes, giant cucumbers, two marrows, a tray of beans and five pumpkins from one plant, all picked before the rain arrived.
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My early autumn jobs include some considered tidying, a little rose-care and tending Amaryllis bulbs among other tasks……
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An end of August garden tour around my windy garden in Chichester, West Sussex, after a hot and very dry summer. Freshly painted decking, potted fruit trees, roses, floppy dahlias and one very generous blueberry.
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Lifting Charlotte and King Edward potatoes from my 15m2 kitchen garden in Chichester, West Sussex, after a very dry summer. My biggest potato harvest so far, plus an uninvited digger under the bed.
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For plant sharing to be a rewarding experience for both giver and receiver there are a few pitfalls to avoid............
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This hardy, succulent perennial is clump forming, and its stems are so densely packed that there is little room left for interlopers.
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Here are some end-of-summer tasks to tackle such as pruning lavender, sowing hardy annuals and noting some changes needed for next year....
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Grow at least a couple of plants to infuse the warm summer air with intriguing, hscent in August will lift your garden to another level.....
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This narrow garden border looks absolutely stunning. And it’s not limited to ‘compact plants’ and climbers (neither feature at all!). But, as garden designer Paul Morrow explains, you do need...
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An honest August update from my little allotment plot in West Sussex: rock hard clay, weeks of drought and hand watering, thieves on the site, and a real question about whether keeping this plot is worth my mental health.