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Compost and green manures

By Adam Pasco on 31/03/2008 10:23:00

.Types to sow now include crimson clover, fenugreek, field lupins - even broad beans. They germinate and grow quickly and reduce weed growth. Flowering varieties even attract bees and beneficial insects.Nothing could be simpler, and the green manures help break


Growing borage for Chelsea

By Jekka McVicar on 04/04/2008 16:27:00

It's always exciting when we move the stock outside from the polytunnels to 'harden off' and 'grow on', so that they're just perfect for the Chelsea Flower Show. I guess it's rather like farmers letting cows out onto the grass after a long winter


A poke in the eye

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 30/10/2007 09:01:02

(Patron Saint of Gardeners) never impulse shopped in nurseries. I had not seen the plant before, all I knew was that it was quite large and had been planted in the middle of my carefully planned flower bed. Hmmmm...some designers would have thrown a bit


Seeing double

By Adam Pasco on 23/07/2007 10:58:02

Sometimes plants do the strangest things, and some of these could make you a small fortune. One of the first dahlia blooms to open in my garden has put on more of a show than expected by producing a flower head with two faces! It looks as if two


Pruning herbs

By Jekka McVicar on 07/03/2008 16:26:00

the flowers, but they need to be at their best for the Chelsea Flower Show. For that reason I don't want them to use their energy producing flowers at the expense of lush green leaves. And finally I tackled Eric, the name we give the South African wild


Begonias

By Adam Pasco on 25/03/2008 14:10:00

carefully slip split canes down the sides of the pot and tie in the thick fleshy stems with soft green string.Then come the flowers; I usually bring a pot indoors to brighten the kitchen window sill while I'm doing the washing up - it's good to have a


Plants for shade

By Adam Pasco on 05/05/2008 11:04:00

in height its spreading branches cast quite a shadow over the bed below. Being a deciduous tree its full canopy doesn't really develop until later in May, so many early flowering plants have time to bloom before the shade takes over.My star performer over


Dianthus: In the pink

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 02/09/2008 13:56:00

, your safest bet is the white double Dianthus 'Mrs Sinkins' which smells like the wrists of wood nymphs. It's one of the old garden pinks (great scent, short flowering season, most of them about 30cm high) and was originally bred in 1868 by John Sinkins


Planting seeds and germination

By Jekka McVicar on 15/02/2008 17:02:00

This has been a better week despite the weather. The days are getting longer, the light levels are increasing, the sun has shone off and on and the seedlings are emerging.Our nasturtium seedlings will be beautiful flowering plants at the Chelsea


Houseplants

By Adam Pasco on 10/03/2008 11:49:00

above), a glorious Clivia miniata. I had one many years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed its stunning display of bright orange trumpets, but this one was different. Among a selection of Clivia with broad green strap-like leaves was one plant with light


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