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Threatened plants need you! Charity calls for help saving the UK’s garden plants

Plant Heritage’s Missing Genera 2020 campaign highlights 10 plant groups that need saving Horticultural charity Plant Heritage is calling for anyone across the UK who is passionate about plants to help save ten plant groups which could be at risk, as part of its annual ‘Missing Genera’ campaign. The Missing […]

More Than Half Of Britons Have Never Been On A Picnic, OR VISITED A UK LANDMARK

The team at www.hampers.com undertook the study as lockdown restrictions are beginning to ease, Britons are keen to get outside and the weather has been, for the majority of lockdown, lovely. Almost 2,500 British adults, aged 18 and over, were quizzed. Asked if they had ever been on a picnic, […]

EDEN’S ICONIC BIOMES TO REOPEN

The Eden Project confirmed today that the Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes and Core education centre will reopen to visitors on Saturday July 4. Eden’s 30-acre outdoor garden, shop and some food outlets are already open. The reopening of the Biomes and Core follow the latest Government directives announced today by […]

Ryobi found even gnomes were embarrased about some gadrens

THREE QUARTERS OF BRITS HAVE HAD A DISASTER IN THE GARDEN

Research has revealed that gardening disasters plague around three quarters (73%) of Brits, prompting power tool manufacturer Ryobi to launch a search for the nation’s ugliest garden. Disasters range from not being able to get plants to grow (14%) to forgetting to water plants (10%), as well as physical injury […]

Blue tits taking a bath. Fresh water is essential for garden birds in summer

Birds of a feather get hot in this weather

With temperatures set to soar above 30C in parts of the UK over the next few days, the RSPB is asking people to give birds a helping hand in the hot conditions by leaving out a supply of fresh water in their gardens or outdoor space. Birds need water for […]

Polytunnel Strawberries

Who doesn’t love strawberries, especially homegrown? I have quite a few plants growing in pots in the polytunnel. I leave them outside after harvesting and then bring them back into the polytunnel in early spring. I give them a good feed of general (liquid) fertiliser and then let the warmth […]

Sowing Turnips

I’ve not grown turnips for a while now as they have never been in great demand by the family. However, I do love them in a Cornish pasty, so that’s a good enough reason for growing them to my mind. I’m sowing two rows in all in this 1m square […]

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