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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 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...]
The Holker Garden Festival has seen another successful year with fantastic show gardens, horticultural displays and reported record attendance. … [Read more...]
Our plant of the month for June is Pimpinella Major Rosea; a perennial plant for the herbaceous border. The delicate umbels of pink flowers are very similar to wild cow parsley and provide graceful movement and softness to planting schemes. Flowers in May and June are held high on stiff, wiry … [Read more...]
Warm summer weather greeted the thousands of visitors to the eighteenth Holker Garden Festival By 10.00am, on Saturday the car parks were filling rapidly and reports were of higher than average attendance figures. Final figures for the three days indicated that over 26,000 people attended the … [Read more...]
Gardening For Health regularly give presentations at events and gardening clubs and the diary for 2011 … [Read More...]
Using a hand trowel or fork when planting out or weeding can cause strain or be a major source of discomfort … [Read More...]
When growing veg, it is important to plan ahead very carefully to gain the best out of your plot and … [Read More...]
For those who follow or are interested in the biodynamic planting method, check out the lunar planting … [Read More...]
