Chelsea Flower Show — Gardening For Health

Gardening Scotland record attendance

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June 13, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

GREAt Gardens Ltd at Gardening Scotland 2011

The organisers of Gardening Scotland 2011, which ran for three days at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh, on 3rd - 5th June, say that record numbers of 40,000 people passed through its gates this year, an increase of 5,000 on the 2010 total. Show organiser Martin Dare says that the increase in … [Read more...]

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Kew & The Times, Important Plants at Chelsea

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January 27, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Kew Gardens have reported that they will be working in partnership with The Times to create their Chelsea 2011 show garden.Chelsea gold medallist, Marcus Barnett has designed a theme named "Eureka Garden" which will showcase plants important to science and society.The plant species chosen … [Read more...]

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Plant of the month – Sedum

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September 4, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Sedum Spectabile

Sedum spectabile or ice plant, is a wonderful flower for adding autumn colour to the border and is loved by bees and butterflies.Growing to a height and spread of around 45 cm, Sedum Spectabile enjoys full sun in light to well drained soil and is hardy enough to survive British … [Read more...]

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Holker Garden Festival 2010

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June 6, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Carol Klein at Holker Garden Festival 2010

Warm summer weather greeted the thousands of visitors to the eighteenth Holker Garden FestivalBy 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 … [Read more...]

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