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Gardeners Tips
http://gardenerstips.co.uk/blog/
Tips on growing plants and food in your garden or home in an eco-friendly manner
- Added on: Jan 1st, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Hortoris Pettinger
- Listed in: Gardening Home and Garden
- Tags: tips flowers gardening plants gardens vegetables
Recent Posts
Crab Apple Trees Fruit and Ornamental
The flowering crabs, Malus Rosaceae, are excellent floral trees with the added bonus of small usually edible fruit. The Malus Red Sentinel above has a profusion of small hard red autumn fruit that can be admired in the garden, left to feed birds, co...
Alpine Troughs and Plant Selections
Outside Harlow Carr’s new Alpine house are a collection of troughs, stone sinks and other containers suitable for a collection of Alpine plants. The planting varies and is related to the soil and rock conditions each plant prefers. One contain...
Hippophae Orange Berries
Hippophae Rhamnoides also called Sea Buckthorn, is related to Elaeganeous and is shown here and below with it’s heavy crop of Apricot coloured berries. The shrub can grow to over 15 feet but makes a nice ornamental feature. It flowers in sprin...
Pampas Grass Upclose
Pampas Grass in cottage garden Pampas grass is the name given to species of the genus Cortaderia, most commonly Cortaderia Selloana which is available with white or pink plumes on strong stalks. Different varieties flower at different times and this...
Choisya Bonsai
This small pot containing an even smaller Choisya ternata is growing happily in our front room. New leaves of light green are almost translucent and provide clean foliage. The leaves when crushed give off a very pleasant scent. This plant was one o...
In Praise of Frost
Jasmin nudiflorum ‘If winter comes can spring be far behind’ or should that be changed, due to global warming, as the season merge. Due to lack of seasonal frost many spring flowers have been appearing through late Autumn and my Primul...
