
A Poinsettia is not just for Christmas
02.12.2014Top tips for keeping that much loved Christmas plant alive. We've tested a plant sensor and mixed it up with some good old gardening knowledge...
Top tips for keeping that much loved Christmas plant alive. We've tested a plant sensor and mixed it up with some good old gardening knowledge...
Founded by English gardener John Tebbs, The Garden Edit redraws the traditional boundaries associated with shopping and the garden by bringing together a modern collection of products that embody functionality, timelessness and beauty.
What an amazing gardening-video, published by "Nowness, for the culturally curious"... Enjoy.
The Zurich Succulent Plant Collection is one of the most impressive of its kind, covering more than 4750sqm and displaying over 6500 plants. We visited the collection and brought our good old 35mm camera.
by zoe | 17.04.2014 | garden , gardening , april , jobs , to do | 0 comments | Rating: 1 votes
You know that feeling – when you go round to your friends’ homes mid-summer and see their thriving tomato plants and wish you had thought to plant some. Well this year, you can be that friend! But like everything relating to plants, having a thriving vegetable garden requires forward planning, and now is the time to start sowing your seeds.
One mistake that people often make is to try to separate different vegetables. But in fact you’ll notice that in many of our plant sets there are a number of different vegetables planted near each other in the same bed. Cross-planting, or polyculture, has a number of advantages including attracting pollinators, deterring pests and event preventing the spread of weeds. It can also help to create a more attractive vegetable garden with plants of different heights. For example:
So what should you be planting? Well, check out our handy to-do list below. And then get going – you’ve got a lot of work to do!
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Check out our great how-to guides on growing vegetables. You can also click on the links below to buy seeds from our online shop.
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree - Joyce Kilmer (1913)
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