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The flower show season is well and truly under way! Here are a few more looking at flower shows in June and August. These are incredibly popular so get booking NOW! BBC Gardeners world Live – Birmingham NEC Alan Titchmarsh and a host of celebrities will be on hand at this years BBC extravaganza, with [...]
Happy New Year Flower Show Readers! After a couple of months lying dormant, we’re back and ready for the new gardening calendar! There are many ways to spend a day off, but why not make the most of the flower and garden shows this year? Here are just a few planned for 2011: The 2011 [...]
The idea of foraging for wild foods in the countryside has been an ancient practice, it is how all life began with the hunter gatherers and is again very popular especially for present day foragers searching for wild mushrooms. It appears however that there are so many people now engaged in the foraging practice that [...]
We have already mentioned here at flower-shows.org that many of the trees in the UK are suffering from diseases that could completely change our landscape for years to come, there have been moulds, moths, bugs and bleeding bark – but there is new evidence that something other than nature itself is destroying the trees.
In light of the governments suggestion that it is to measure the UK levels of wellbeing and quality of life there is already a piece of research that suggests that growing your own vegetables leads to longer life expectancy.
How brilliant to read about the success of the British Bee Keepers Association (BBKA) regarding the UK adopt a beehive scheme and this year’s figures that confirm 5,000 people signed up to sponsor a beehive and become as the BBKA call them ‘armchair beekeepers’. The scheme has been a tremendous success and confirms a fifty [...]
Strictly Come Dancing is not usually a programme linked with gardening, but last night’s show had a great gardening joke and Bruce Forsyth really made us laugh here at flower shows. It was amazing watching Felicity Kendal dance the Rumba but she is more well-known for her role as Barbara Good in the Good Life [...]
Bob’s Basics are a new series of books by acclaimed organic gardener Bob Flowerdew. Bob Flowerdew has been gardening for 30 years and with his wealth of experience these books are an opportunity to share his gardening knowledge with both experienced gardeners and those wanting to take up gardening for the first time. There are [...]
The end of summer brings with it a number of jobs to do in the garden and a very important job is the successful storage of your crops for the winter season. The key to successful storage is to ensure that only the very best of your crop is stored for winter. The slightest damaged [...]
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.
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- A Greenhouse from Hartley Botanic is on our gardening wish list this year!
