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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 Mid-August

So how’s it all going for you?! In this year of peculiar weather, many of us will have been in unknown territory – how have our plants fared through a bitter late winter, a sopping spring, and now a roasting summer?  Strange botanical goings-on, worthy of The X-Files (cue the spooky music) but regardless, a gardener’s […]