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Category: 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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Lavender for the Under 30s
kitchen garden / Perennials / Pruning / Shrubs / Summer Interest
  • 10th June 2014
  • 6 mins
Tagged bees, haven for wildlife, kitchen garden, Lavandula "Imperial Gem", Lavandula "Little Lady"

Lavender for the Under 30s

Lavender for the Under 30s This title was used by Laetitia Maklouf in her book The Virgin Gardener, and I love it. I […]

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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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Concrete Garden
Bulbs / City Garden / Perennials / Spring Interest
  • 5th May 2014
  • 1 min
Tagged Bluebells, Edgbaston Reservoir, Nest, Sutton Park, Swan

Concrete Garden

Its May and unfortunately we are still in the concrete jungle. We keep getting closer and closer to our garden, but not […]

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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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Favorite House Plant
Container Plants / Perennials / Pruning / Winter Interest
  • 21st February 2014
  • 4 mins
Tagged Aloe Vera, Ceropegia linearis subsp 'Woodii', Ficus benjamina, house plants, Laetitia Maklouf " Virgin Gardener"

Favorite House Plant

My favorite house plant is one I knew nothing about. We have had the usual Poinsetta Euphoribia pulcherrima although I have to admit […]

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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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