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Enjoy your garden and bring nature closer


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Common Frog - Photo courtesy Wikipedia

It’s easy to encourage wildlife into your garden by choosing a variety of flowering foliage and fruiting plants.  If you choose the right plants and put them in the right location you will encourage frogs, toads, birds, bees and many other insects and mammals.

The garden will burst with colour, texture, sound and movement.

Here are some of the plants I would recommend to enjoy whilst giving nature a helping hand.

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Back to gardening basics


506821715 mpRxE Th Back to gardening basicsMore and more of us are turning our gardens, patios and window boxes into mini market gardens by growing our own fruit and vegetables says a new survey conducted on www.bbcgardenersworldlive.com

Marking a real back to basics trend, the survey also shows that Britain’s gardeners like traditional plants and garden styles, use a whacky variety of recycled

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Keep fit – keep gardening


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Healthy gardening – Photo Brian Clough

June is a busy time of year in the garden as once again we venture out to battle nature’s response to the warmer weather.

But beware! According to the Department of Trade and Industry’s Home Accident Surveillance System around 87,000 people go to hospital accident and emergency because of

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Give yourself and the wildlife in your garden a treat this month!


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Kniphofia, commonly known as the Red Hot Poker

Kniphofia, commonly known as the Red Hot Poker, is not seen in many gardens these days.  The best know variety, Royal Standard, has beautiful flower spikes, bearing long tubular flowers, starting off at

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Top outdoor tomatoes


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Tomatoes – Picture courtesy of "Fir0002/Flagstaffotos" distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

There are some fantastic low growing bush varieties, which make growing tomatoes outdoors easier because they require little or no support; and no trimming or stopping (nipping out the growing tips). The fruits often grow close to the ground, so to prevent the fruits

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Cracking courgettes


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Zucchini courgettes

Now is the time to plant courgettes.  You can sow seeds directly in to the ground or in containers outside, in a sunny spot with protection from strong winds.

The soil or compost should be well drained and rich in humus, and if grown in pots or containers I would recommend using an organic compost,

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