Category: Gardens

Hiring a Landscape Gardener

A landscape gardener will have more specialist skills than your everyday gardener. They will be able to design and craft a garden that looks entirely new, ensuring that it will be designed on a different scale and will look far more impressive than it does at the moment. By this token, people tend to only…

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Exploring Cyclaminieus Daffodils and their Preferred Growing Conditions

Daffodils: a spring flower whose infectious colour brings joy, along with the promise of better weather that is on its way. Daffodils are a popular flower grown in the UK, and there are lots of varieties that you can experiment with. Some of the most iconic are trumpet daffodils, large cup daffodils and small cup…

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Looking After a Chilli Plant

Chilli plants can grow well in the UK, as long as they are in a warm sunny place. This usually means growing them indoors, in a window that is south facing and gets a lot of sunlight. If provided with the right conditions, a chilli plant can grow lots of chillies for you, and grow…

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How to Look After your Garden

Looking after your garden will depend on many different factors – what you want to achieve with the space, whether you have children and pets, the landscape of your existing garden. It’s useful to have some aims in mind for the space, so that you can decide what you want to do with it and…

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Gardening for the Environment

Gardening might seem like an environmentally-friendly activity, but there are lots of things you can do that might have a detrimental effect on the environment instead. This could involve using different kinds of weed killers and pesticides, using various tools that can destroy animals’ habitats, or killing certain kinds of insects. If you love your…

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How Often Should a Gardener Visit your Property? 

There are lots of different options when you hire a gardener. Do you want regular garden maintenance? Do you just need a garden tidy once a year? Would you like to get your hedges trimmed and tidied up? Much of it depends on your individual garden and your preferences. Some people prefer to have a…

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A Guide to Growing Cyclamen

Cyclamen is a good way of adding colour to a winter garden. It will keep flowering when little else is, making it popular amongst gardeners as the weather gets colder. Here is a guide to successfully growing cyclamen: 1. You should plant the tubers in holes that are 3-5cm deep. If they are planted too…

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How to Improve Soil Quality

Soil is important when you are going to be growing plants and flowers. It needs to give the right nutrients in order to keep them alive and make them grow strong and healthy. If you have poor quality soil in your garden, this can be a real disappointment and you may want to do something…

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Growing Herbs in your Home

Growing herbs can be very satisfying and also very useful if you are a keen chef. It’s always nice to have plenty of herbs available for you to use straight away and they will make your home smell lovely and fragrant.   You can easily grow herbs like basil, lemongrass, chives, mint, parsley and oregano.…

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Growing Bearded Iris – What you Need to Know

The Bearded Iris is a very easy flower to grow – as long as you know how. It will flower in the spring time and is available in many different colours. It has been said that anybody can grow Irises once they know how to. Here are some top tips for beautiful blooms:   •…

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