Country Homes & Interiors

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We have a beautiful south-facing suite in the old servants’ quarters, which we’ve named the Potagerie Suite because of the most fantastic view it presents of the walled garden below. There’s nowhere else like it in the house. I love the dappled light

Australian Country

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BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE PHOTOGRAPHY ROSS WILLIAMS, STYLING BRONTE CAMILLERI As Alex Kowald traces the story of her garden in the Adelaide Hills, she began with a blank canvas in 1988 and has spent the better part of the ensuing 30 years colouring in the

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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It takes a concrete jungle to remind us of the power of flowers, the freshness of foliage and how a cacophony of colour can be corralled to soften sharp edges and dilute the jarring sounds of busy city streets. The City of Sydney celebrates the comin

Organic NZ

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The Soil & Health Association – publisher of Organic NZ – has groups that meet in different parts of the country. These meetings and field days are wonderful ways in which to meet fellow gardeners and growers, and other people interested in healthy s

Amateur Gardening

4 min. di lettura

I LOOK forward to see Amateur Gardening drop through my door. I wasn’t sure what to do with my lovely mags after reading them and planting the seeds. With time on my hands and my garden all tidy, I ordered a scrapbook and set out to keep all my favou

Living Etc

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What… Omved Gardens Where… Townsend Yard, N6 Why… A former garden centre, this is now a spectacularly beautiful garden just off Highgate High Street. Paul Gazerwitz is responsible for the design – a sinuous path (left) snaking through weeping willows

Homes & Gardens

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At first glance, Yews Farm appears to be a quintessential English garden. Grass paths, framed by clipped box and espaliered apples, converge beneath an old pear tree. But the detail is created less conventionally by architectural planting rather than

Country Homes & Interiors

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It has not been easy to find refuge from recent events, but there is one place I know I can rely on. Pevensey & Westham Community Forest Garden is an acre and a half of former allotment land in East Sussex, and an unexpected haven. From the entrance

Amateur Gardening

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Clematis tangutica ‘Bill Mackenzie’, a vigorous yellowflowered clematis that peaks in September, has silky seed heads like giant silver spiders. These stay intact all winter then disintegrate in early spring. Train it against a fence or wall, or allo

Amateur Gardening

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Listen to Peter’s free podcast every Thursday. Search for ‘This Week In The Garden with Peter Seabrook’ on iTunes THE dramatic new interest in gardening nationwide is quite remarkable, although with weeks of lockdown we should not be surprised. The b

Amateur Gardening

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1 This winter has been pretty mild so far, so you may still have a few tender annuals outside. Lift and pot them and overwinter in the greenhouse. Tie the leaves of evergreen agapanthus so they protect the crown, and mulch well. 12 Dried figs are a f

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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This tropical plant with its large leaves can be used as a structural plant to provide lush shadiness. Although not usually found in Thailand, this beech hedge can be used to provide a sense of privacy and lush foliage in a garden. Grown indoors in

The English Garden

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• Don’t put up with something you don’t want. Be bold and resolute and get rid of things. • Break the rules. If you want to grow a plant but aren’t sure it will work, have a go! We’ve lost some plants but many others have thrived. • See your garden a

The Gardener Magazine

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If bold, bright and beautiful is what you are after, plant this month’s bedding bestie: Celosia (commonly known as cock’s comb). Available in a colour feast of red, orange, yellow, hot pink, rose, mahogany and magenta, celosias are exceptionally hard

The English Garden

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MOST NOTABLE GARDENS ARE developed over a lifetime, or at least a few decades, but very few evolve as rapidly as the flower gardens at Malverleys in Hampshire. In just eight years, head gardener Mat Reese has orchestrated a series of borders that del

BBC Gardeners' World

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By rights we shouldn’t be here this month. We should all be lolling around on some beach or exploring gardens in other countries. But chances are we’re still here, and most of us will be seeing even more of our gardens. Maybe this too will become the

Country Life

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June is the month for pinks. Never was a flower better named. Every cultivar is pretty. It is a curiosity that the time of flowering is also the time of propagation. Examine the tufts of spiky grey leaves and you will see that some do not bear flower

The English Garden

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Catmint is a border stalwart, teaming particularly well with roses. Try ‘Six Hills Giant’. Generous amounts of deep crimson, velvety blooms on this fragrant shrub rose. Tubular purple-pink flowers emerge from darker calyces on this frost-hardy plan

The Gardener Magazine

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If your pretty aloe, such as this ‘Twice as Nice’ hybrid with its striking red and white bi-coloured flowers, has become a congested clump due to forming lots of pups around its base, divide it and replant them in a handsome pot. This little dwarf al

Garden Gate

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Protect and fertilize the garden like a pro with the Chapin Premier Stainless Steel Sprayer. The 2-gallon tank features a funnel top for easy filling. The brass wand has a shut-off with lock-on feature for fatigue free spraying, and a brass nozzle th

Getaway

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Nibbling on an elegant ploughman’s platter, I stared at the clematis winding its delicate shoots up the side of the doll’s house in the rose-filled garden at Eildon Farm. Hardy aloes dotted the hillside beyond the garden, somehow surviving years of d

The Gardener Magazine

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Use less plastic by recycling your old gardening magazines (our pages are bio-degradable) and newspapers into plant pots. • It’s cheap and easy to do.• The seedlings can be planted out pot-and-all, which means no root disturbance – the paper will dis

Your Home and Garden

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Minimalism will beat a hasty retreat in the 2020s. An intensely manicured, soulless garden with few plants and even fewer flowers means no insects or birds. In other words: a garden with no life. The next decade is all about rekindling life so minima

Florida Design

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Inside these pages: The Graphic Garden is the first monograph from Keith Williams, a partner, along with Mario Nievera, of Nievera Williams Design based in South Florida — one of the country’s leading landscape architectural firms. Illustrated with e

Country Life

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As spring advances, the opportunity arrives to plant evergreen shrubs. Dig a hole somewhat bigger than the rootball of the intended specimen. Break up the base and sides of the hole with a fork. Pick up the shrub and loosen the fibres of the rootball

NPR

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Social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus might leave you with some extra time — and an opportunity to spruce up your garden.

Amateur Gardening

3 min. di lettura

Write to us: Letters, Amateur Gardening magazine, Pinehurst 2, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough Business Park, Farnborough, Hants GU14 7BF (please include your address). Email us: amateurgardening@futurenet.com MY neighbour and I are both keen gardeners,

Ideal Home

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Ubud parasol, £161.50, Maisons du Monde St Mawes garden table, £945, Cuckooland Green trug, £5, Wilko KitchenCraft Living Nostalgia jug, £14.95, Amazon.co.uk Malmesbury planter, from £40, Garden Trading Chandler antique brass indoor/outdoor skeleton

High Times

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A good balance of reliability to performance and economy makes flood-and-drain (a.k.a. ebb-and-flow) systems very popular with growers. The drawback with this type of system is that some growing medium is required, so it’s not a “true” water culture.

Kitchen Garden

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Haxnicks’ Grower Frame system has long been a staple for gardeners without greenhouses. New for 2021 is the Compact Grower Frame, a half-length version for people with less space. Made from tubular steel rods that slot together to make a sturdy, rust