Turning winter into a virtue

ALL over the country certain people will be heaving a great sigh o...

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Passion for the ‘Good Life’

A new exhibition that has opened at the Garden Museum suggests our...

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How a dash of lime adds zest to greens

BACK in Grandad’s day, serious vegetable growers swore by their re...

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Kew reaches seed target with the pink banana

KEW GARDENS' Millennium Seed Bank today celebrates reaching its ta...

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It’s time to scrape out a wildlife water park

AS a small boy, I sometimes got myself into scrapes. One I remembe...

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A garden paradise is yours for making

ON moving into a new home, many homebuyers sigh with disdain when ...

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Dark secret to turn your tomatoes red

FOR veg growers the trouble with an early autumn is that it leav...

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Put life into your lawn

INSTEAD of digging up and returfing a threadbare patch of lawn tak...

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Greenfly invasion that turned me into a star

AS ASPIRATIONS go it was a pretty simple one: “I want to be a gard...

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How to tame the rampant thugs

GARDENS go through three distinct phases: newly planted, at their ...

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Gardening help

The passionflower I planted last year has flowered brilliantly thi...

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Don’t lose the plot

TRADITIONALLY allotments change hands in the autumn and if you fan...

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Sow the seeds of a hefty cash saving

IF YOU want to cut down on your gardening bill, here’s a tip that ...

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