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Category: Herbaceous Perennials

Summer Gardens
Annuals / Bulbs / City Garden / Container Plants / Deciduous / Grasses / Herbaceous Perennials / Herbs / Houseplants / kitchen garden / Perennials / Plant Husbandry / Pruning / Shrubs / Summer Interest / Therapeutic Gardening / Young Gardeners
  • 5th August 2014
  • 5 mins
Tagged annual seeds, climbers, fair weather gardener, gardening with kids, growing cress in egg shells

Summer Gardens

Summer Gardens   I love summer, its this time of year you get to reap the joys of all your hard work, […]

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Garden Jobs to do in July
Annuals / Bulbs / City Garden / Climbers / Container Plants / Deciduous / Diseases / Herbaceous Perennials / Herbs / kitchen garden / Perennials / Pests / Plant Husbandry / Propagation / Pruning / Shrubs / Summer Interest / Young Gardeners
  • 9th July 2014
  • 4 mins
Tagged apples, autumn flowering bulbs, beans, bearded Irises, bird baths

Garden Jobs to do in July

Garden Jobs for July Where is this year going? Its July already, I’ve only just managed to start reading this months The […]

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Softwood Cuttings
Herbaceous Perennials / Houseplants / Perennials / Pests / Plant Husbandry / Propagation
  • 9th June 2014
  • 4 mins
Tagged Aster, Buddleja, cuttings, Dahlia, Delphinium

Softwood Cuttings

Taking Soft wood Cuttings There are many benefits of vegetative propagation such as creating a clonal replica of the parent plant, it’s […]

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Jobs to do in June
Annuals / Container Plants / Deciduous / Diseases / Herbaceous Perennials / Houseplants / Perennials / Pests / Plant Husbandry / Pruning / Winter Interest
  • 5th June 2014
  • 4 mins
Tagged apples, aquatic plants, Argyranthemum, Asparagus, bearded Irises

Jobs to do in June

Its June already and our gardens are in full swing. Our spring plants are finished and summer is well on its way.  Garden […]

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Plants that will heal, cure and otherwise do good.
Container Plants / Deciduous / Herbaceous Perennials / Herbs / Houseplants / Perennials / Shrubs
  • 27th April 2014
  • 6 mins
Tagged Aloe barbadensis, Calendula officinalis, Echinacea, Hamamelis virginiana, Healing

Plants that will heal, cure and otherwise do good.

Plants that will heal, cure and otherwise do good I recently wrote a post on dangerous plants, I think it only right to […]

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Plants that Will Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Definitely Offend
Acid Loving Plants / Annuals / Bulbs / Container Plants / Deciduous / Herbaceous Perennials / Perennials / Plant Husbandry / Pruning / Shrubs
  • 3rd April 2014
  • 9 mins
Tagged Carrot or Parsley - Apiaceae, Cashew - Anacadium occidentale, cow parsnip, Elderberry - Sambucus spp., English Ivy - Hedra helix

Plants that Will Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Definitely Offend

 Plants that Will Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Definitely Offend It is so important when gardening to know the difference between a dangerous […]

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Jobs to Do in February Part 2
Deciduous / Grasses / Herbaceous Perennials / Perennials / Pruning / Shrubs / Winter Interest
  • 21st February 2014
  • 2 mins

Jobs to Do in February Part 2

So I might have waffled on on part 1 as I was going to put all of the jobs for Feb in […]

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Jobs for February Part 1
Container Plants / Deciduous / Herbaceous Perennials / Perennials
  • 20th February 2014
  • 4 mins
Tagged container, container plants, plants

Jobs for February Part 1

Taken from my Februarys copy of the RHS Garden and worded in my simple English. Do you have any permanent container plants? […]

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