Featured Stories
Snowdonia orchards project
If you live in the Snowdonia National Park, are you interested in establishing an orchard on your land,… [more]
Holker Garden Festival 2010
Warm summer weather greeted the thousands of visitors to the eighteenth Holker Garden Festival By… [more]
Bee part of it with the BBC
England will be a hive of activity this summer as BBC Local Radio joins forces with the National Trust… [more]
Keeping Honey Bees
A garden cannot thrive without bees and bees increasingly need gardens in order to survive. Beekeeping… [more]
Using gardening hand tools
Using a hand trowel or fork when planting out or weeding can cause strain or be a major source of discomfort… [more]
NEWS & FEATURES
Snowdonia orchards project
If you live in the Snowdonia National Park, are you interested in establishing an orchard on your land, or extending an orchard you may already have? The Snowdonia National Park Authority, in partnership with CALU (Centre for Alternative Land Use, Bangor University) is eager to hear from National … [Read More...]
Lakeland Garden
Lakeland Garden at Holker Garden Show 2010 The Lakeland Garden has been designed and built by Patrick Holmes of Plantspace, as a small example of the plants and materials available in the Lake District and the surrounding areas. Patrick has kindly provided us with details of all of the plants, … [Read More...]
Holker Garden Festival – video
The Holker Garden Festival has seen another successful year with fantastic show gardens, horticultural displays and reported record attendance. … [Read More...]
REVIEWS
Grow Your Own Garden
Carol Klein is passionate about propagating plants, in fact her own garden in Devon is almost grown entirely from cutting, root divisions and seeds and in her latest book she shares her joy in working … [Read More...]
GARDENER’S DIARY
A Thingamadig
Following on from our recent article about using hand tools in the garden. we have recently found this Thingamadig from Lakeland. The Thingamadig is manufactured by Dalson in Australia for Lakeland of Windermere. They claim that; "This unique and versatile garden trowel can dig, scoop, trowel, … [Read More...]
