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Top Ten Garden Tasks for Autumn

1. Tidy up! Autumn is a great time for those who love wielding the clippers – all that summer growth will need a trim back now to keep the garden tidy. But many off-cuts will strike well in the humidity right now so think about planting some of your cuttings out into pots. 2. Dig [ READ MORE ]

THE SECRET ART OF SACRIFICIAL PLANTING

By Simon Eade – our exciting new guest blogger from ‘The Garden of Eaden’! THE SECRET ART OF SACRIFICIAL PLANTING Although the terminology sounds a little blood thirsty, it is in reality a practiced organic method of protecting your garden plants from the pests that feed from them. This is achieved by the deliberate act [ READ MORE ]

Random Acts of Gardening – Guerilla Gardening

On 1 May guerrilla gardeners around the world sow sunflowers all over the place. It’s a way to bring beauty, bumble bees and bundles of fun to your neighborhood. 2010 is the fourth “International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day” and this time it’s on a Saturday! So hopefully it’ll be bigger and more colourful than ever [ READ MORE ]

Daily Telegraph Top 10 Hellebore Days Out

Top 10 hellebore days out These subtle but stunning plants will be flowering soon. Was Helleborus – as some historians believe – the plant on which the 33 year old Alexander the Great fatally overdosed in Babylon in 323 BCE?  We’ll probably never know!  But we love these understated beauties.  Check out this great list of [ READ MORE ]

Call a spade a spade? How to choose a decent spade..

If you’re passionate about gardening  - the chances are you probably take pride in your shed and your beloved garden tools. I still have my grandfather’s spade which is a beautiful sturdy beast that’s been going for decades.  But recently it was time for Grandpa’s spade to retire due to overwork.  This meant is was [ READ MORE ]

What to do in the Garden in March – Start Composting

Why Compost? Compost is the perfect free organic food for your garden. It’s the ultimate in recycling that you can do in your own home & garden. It also links your own food chain from your home to your land – putting back nutrients directly to the soil.  Compost is packed with nutrients any garden [ READ MORE ]

Spring! Time to go out & visit gardens – Waterperry, Oxfordshire

I first went to Waterperry two years ago – when I was desperate for Spring! Here’s a little video I made, inspired by the rising saps, fiery tulips and and unfurling ferns.. Waterperry is at its best when plants are starting to come to life from about now through to late Spring. A day out [ READ MORE ]

Grow Your Own Veg – we like this video!

Now is the season to be thinking about what vegetables you want to grow for the forthcoming year. Growing your own veg can be so rewarding as well as nutritious. You don’t even need a garden – many successful vegetable beds are now being born on city balconies and nurtured window boxes. It can also [ READ MORE ]

MyGardenSchool’s Community of Gardening Photographers is Sprouting!

We’re delighted that MyGardenSchool’s Flickr group is going from strength to strength – now featuring over 100 original gardening related photographs. Some beautiful and thoughtful garden photographs are being posted, and new members joining every day thanks to word of mouth from our thriving flickr community. If you’re interested in joining our group every gardening [ READ MORE ]

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