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Just read a great article about garlic and if you are thinking of trying it in your garden you can start planting now straight into the garden or start in your greenhouse for early crops next year. What we really loved here at flower-shows is the idea of growing garlic as pest control.
Just a reminder for your diaries! The highlight of the Northern gardening calendar is almost upon us – the North of England Horticultural Society’s Harrogate Flower Show. The show takes place at the Great Yorkshire Showground on Friday17th Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th September 2010. Gates open at 9.30am and close at 5.30pm and tickets [...]
The notion of National Collections is to stop varieties of plants disappearing and at the recent Hampton Court Flower Show the BBC featured two such collections, Plantagogo’s Heuchera and Barry Clarke’s Milkweed. The Plant Heritage Marquee was celebrating national collections and it was really interesting to find out that, amateur gardeners and greenhouse growers can [...]
Hampton Court Flower Show 2010 (6th – 11th July) was again a great success. The show always prides itself on providing new ideas for gardeners to grow in their gardens and greenhouses. This year there was an emphasis on ‘grow your own’ and sustainability, something that flower-shows.org is very enthusiastic about together with Shakespearian themes [...]
Greenhouse invasion. It is the time of year that people are getting back into their gardens and having a good tidy up ready for enjoyment in the hot (well hopefully) summer months. Gardeners spend a lot of time ensuring that the outside garden is looking ‘just as it should’ but what about the greenhouse. There [...]
Examples of pothole gardening by Shannon Spanhake were created as early as 2005 in the US and there are further examples in the UK from Pete Dungey. Pete Dungey began planting flowers in potholes in Oxford and advocates “if we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the [...]
Is it a Bush or is it a Tree? Many people tend to think the Mulberry is a bush – mainly as the children’s rhyme refers to it as such “Here we go round the Mulberry bush” but the Mulberry is a tree and is a very intriguing tree at that. The Mulberry came to [...]
This years RHS flower shows are again set against the breath-taking backdrops of the historic sites of Bute Park, Cardiff, The Royal Hospital, Chelsea, Hampton Court Palace, London and Tatton Park, Cheshire. RHS Cardiff has been and gone but for those gardening enthusiasts that missed Cardiff – do not be concerned there are three further [...]
The Daily Mail recently ran an article featuring the 10 best British Gardens as chosen by Clive Aslet, a ‘writer and countryside campaigner’… Here are a few of the best!
Did anyone catch the new Bing ad? Using the same ‘Information overload’ theme, a builder asks about ‘greenhouses’ and gets answers about green men! Amusing… check it out!
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