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Composting in winter

By Kate Bradbury on 17/12/2010 16:26:51

is full. Hurry up spring. My compost bin fills up every winter. It’s a lovely wooden beehive type that looks perfect in our tiny garden. It’s sited against the south-facing wall and gets really hot and steamy in summer. The frogs love it and it’s full


Garden festivals galore

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 29/08/2007 09:38:02

this is to be ground breaking. I also liked The Garden that Time Forgot by Catherine Charles and Victor Moreaud (dripping water, twisted metal and balloons), The Frog's Dream by Remi Salles (boxing rings,goldfish and Edith Piaf) and Amelie Leroy's Family Tree. I


Artificial grass

By Kate Bradbury on 13/08/2010 10:43:21

noticed, except the butterflies, of course, and the blackbirds and the robin and the frogs.I can see the benefits of having an artificial lawn, a lawn that stays green and lush under trees and in between goal posts, that you don't have to get up to mow


Wilding the Chelsea Flower Show

By Kate Bradbury on 23/05/2011 15:20:50

couple of ducks were found in Ann Marie Powell's British Heart Foundation Garden and a frog was sat in the stream of the SKYShades Garden. When I arrived on Sunday, everything was buzzing with the sound of honey and bumblebees foraging on the variety


Controlling slugs and snails with copper

By Adam Pasco on 06/07/2009 10:38:37

I can keep the slugs out.In the meantime I'll continue to welcome in the hedgehogs, frogs, toads, beetles and birds that all play a vital role in pest control in my garden.


Creating a pond

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 02/08/2010 08:23:38

as great gobbets of turf and topsoil are heaped into enormous piles and then, slowly, from the chaos, a pond emerges.I know this is very different from many people's experience of building a pond as this is a garden which is bigger than most


Vine weevils again

By Kate Bradbury on 30/09/2010 16:12:19

A few months ago I wrote about vine weevil, which I had inadvertently brought into my garden in a pot of hellebores. I was worried they'd kill my orange tree (which pretty much always has something wrong with it) and my 'nursery' of seedlings. I


What to do with your old Christmas tree

By Kate Bradbury on 31/12/2010 07:02:08

into pieces, drilled holes in them and then arranged them in the box with some bamboo, sunflower and teasel stems, all from the garden. The last bit of the trunk went into the pond so frogs could enter and exit more easily.This year I'll use the whole tree


A dry spring

By Kate Bradbury on 06/05/2011 13:07:46

frosts.My garden in East London hasn't seen rain since before Christmas. We've had snow, of course, and the promise of rain - dark clouds, even a thunder storm, but no water (we did have a two minute shower last Friday but it by the time I recognised


The gardening bug

By Kate Bradbury on 24/06/2011 17:07:06

to squeeze gardening in before work, and I'll go hungry when I get home in the evening to spend the last hours of sunlight with the plants, frogs and bees.But that's enough of me. I asked around the office and, not surprisingly, the answers were all similar


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