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Growing apple trees

By Pippa Greenwood on 15/05/2008 12:33:00

-tinged blossom - far prettier than many ornamental trees.It's a real delight to see fruit trees right now as they're breathtakingly beautiful. I can't help wondering why more people don't grow tree fruit. There is the misconception that it requires acres of space


Plants growing above the Arctic Circle

By Pippa Greenwood on 21/08/2008 13:03:00

two healthy looking specimens, planted on either side of a front door of a fortress.They looked unusually lush, and the full story soon came to light - they were planted to illustrate the fact that trees can grow above the Arctic Circle. However


Passion for potatoes

By Pippa Greenwood on 11/10/2007 10:19:35

It was definitely NOT the best year to choose to grow large numbers of sweet potatoes, but yes, it was the year that I did so! I adore that ridiculously toffee-like taste and texture of roasted sweet potatoes. Perfection, an apricot


Squirrel damage to Brussels sprouts

By Pippa Greenwood on 31/01/2008 12:04:00

I've had a great few years growing an extraordinary range of vegetable crops for my series 'Veg With Pippa' in Gardeners' World Magazine. The results of my vegetable trials have often been fascinating, and on more than one occasion I've been


Tomato blight

By Pippa Greenwood on 09/10/2008 13:11:00

'Hundreds and Thousands', and I was lucky enough to be given a trial pack of seeds. It's a funny variety, with low-growing plants covered with numerous marble-sized fruits. I grew one plant unsuccessfully in the greenhouse and many very successfully


Trees for autumn colour

By Pippa Greenwood on 18/09/2008 16:43:00

the summer, so it allows the trees' roots to grow and get established before winter sets in. We're lucky enough to have enough space to grow large autumn trees, such as sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua. And while I love the classic cultivars 'Worplesdon


Daffodils in May

By Pippa Greenwood on 22/05/2008 11:00:00

This week at the Chelsea Flower Show there are thousands of gardeners admiring out of season daffodil blooms in the show gardens and floral exhibits.In order to get their daffodils blooming at this time of year, growers force the bulbs to grow using


Mullein moth caterpillars

By Pippa Greenwood on 10/07/2008 13:13:00

and buddleja.The caterpillars can destroy plants' foliage in a matter of days and can literally be seen to swell in the process. Luckily, my one cultivated verbascum has so far escaped their attentions, but a buddleja and several of the wild mulleins growing


Potato blight

By Pippa Greenwood on 19/07/2007 12:03:35

'm growing for the Gardeners' World Magazine series) seemed to be as happy as Larry.That will teach me to be big headed, last night I found it - evil blackish brown blotches just starting up on the leaves. Luckily it has finally stopped raining so the spores


Repotting palm trees

By Pippa Greenwood on 14/08/2008 10:45:00

the last couple of years the palm has become steadily more miserable looking; its leaves have lost their gorgeous green sheen and taken on more of a yellow hue instead. And it's practically stopped growing.Finally I grasped the nettle (actually


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