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Dig out that note-book! Grow-how tips for late summer

August Bank Holiday has come racing along, hasn’t it!  And for many of us gardeners it heralds fading colours, waving seedheads and too much blackspot.  But wait a minute…there are autumn beauties just around the corner!  And in the meantime, let’s take stock, make a few cuttings, and harvest the apples…… Softwood cuttings The salvias have been […]

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Grow-How Tips for Late August

I do hope this holiday season is going spiffingly well for you.  There is a more easeful air about the garden in August. In Scotland, the children are already back at school and in our gardens almost everything that was going to happen, has now happened, apart from the late flowerers and the harvesting of […]