Thousands of birds depend on us to provide food to get them through the winter, but many perish due to a disease picked up from the feeders we use. After Trichomonosis wiped out the greenfinches in his garden, Dick Woods, set about creating a high quality, easy clean bird feeder, which is manufactured in the […]
When I announced last spring that I was planning a new cutting edge garden project to mark the Coronation of King Charles III, there were the usual groans and sniping from the sisterhood. ‘Just plant a new rose’ and ‘Why not simply put a couple of extra ferns into your stumpery – he likes those’. […]
Get your patio ready for a sizzling summer. The3Growbags are giving away this fabulous Thompson & Morgan patio pack to one lucky winner. Worth over £35 you’ll be getting a fresh collection of Clematis ‘Little Lemons’; Fuchsia ‘Tom West’ and the adorable Sunflowers Sunbelievable ‘Brown Eyed Girl’. Imagine relaxing on a warm evening surrounded by […]
This competition is open to UK mainland residents aged 18 or over. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. The Competition opens at 8am on the 3 December 2024, and closes at 12pm on the 16 December 2024. Entries received after that date and time will […]
I recommend that you keep each bulb type in a separate pot, rather than mixing them up together. Each bulb has a different growth habit, and one could easily swamp out the other two, especially in subsequent years Eucomis bicolor, the pineapple lily A wonderfully exotic looking plant, easy in a pot that can be […]
Having experimented with many different plants in my glasshouse over the years I’d like to share with you the 10 that have given the most pleasure for the least fuss. Here goes.. 1. Jasminium polyanthum. Yes that’s the very common one you can buy almost anywhere but especially as a gift at Christmas. Move it […]
ANSWERS TO THE 3G CRYPTIC CROSSWORD 2021 Across: 4. Sunflower Seeds 6. Dogwood 7. Chestnuts 11. Laura 13. Mistletoe 16. Parsnips 17. Elaine 18. Holly Down: 1. Cyclamen 2. Tangerine 3. Noel 5. Frost 7. Caroline 8. Blue Spruce 9. Poinsettia 10. Evergreen 14. Sprouts 15. Winter Box
ANSWERS TO THE 3GROWBAGS PRIZE CHRISTMAS CROSSWORD ACROSS: 2. Jute 4. Pond 5. Birch 7. Sage 8. Sloe 9. Moss 11. Gala 14. Daphne 15. Carrot 16. Heather 17. Sedge 18. Rhubarb 19. Pineapple 23. Gladioli 25. Cane 26. Chitting 27. Primula 28. Raspberry DOWN: 1. Dixter 3. Trowel 6. Clematis 7. Sycamore 9. Mulch 10. Spade 12. Cranesbills 13. Heuchera 20. Iris 21. Physalis 22. No Dig 24. Lime
Question 1. It’s called the gin and tonic plant! If you brush against its foliage it emits the fragrance of a delicious G & T. Chin chin! 2. Plant identification A. Helleborus foetidus. Grows best in thin chalky soils and I snapped this striking specimen last December, obviously loving life in car park of the […]
Answers at the end ? 1.Who was the father of plant nomenclature? a) Charles Darwin b) Carl Linnaeus c) Alfred Einstein c) Sir David Attenborough 2) Why are scientific names more useful than common names? a) they are unique and recognised globally b) they are easier to spell c) they never change d) they make […]
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As regular readers of our blog will have come to realise, of the three of us I am the one with the most inquiring mind, the fact finder, the researcher. So my holiday reading on our recent break to the Hebrides was a copy of the recently published ‘A History of Gardening in 50 Objects’ […]
Every area of RHS Wisley garden in Surrey has ‘its moment’ some time in the year so it was with great intent that I set off last Sunday to take my annual tour around Battleston Hill, principally to look at magnolias. Unsurprisingly for this spring, it was wet, but en route to Battleston Hill there were […]
If you’re already a member of the Royal Horticultural Society you’ll know that besides its internationally renowned Chelsea Flower Show each May, a more permanent jewel in its crown is the RHS garden at Wisley, just off the M25 in balmy south-east England – and luckily a manageable drive from my house. I’ve been visiting […]
A few years ago when my sisters said that they were going to come over to France for a couple of days, I jumped at the chance to show them what I had been up to in my rather rampageous Normandy garden. In the event, they found out why this part of Europe is so […]