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Peonies

By Adam Pasco on 19/05/2008 11:00:00

If I followed the adage that every plant in my garden had to earn its place then I'm not convinced peonies are worth growing. When it comes to their contribution to the display I'd have to say it's... brief. Of course, anticipation is a virtue every


Knowing your onions

By Jane Moore on 16/11/2007 10:07:49

After a good few years of vegetable growing I would go so far as to say that I know a thing or two about onions and their cultivation. For instance I know that onions are prone to a nasty fungal disease called 'white rot' and I know exactly what


Red cabbages

By Jane Moore on 27/03/2008 11:11:00

I have a confession to make. After raving about the arrival of the purple sprouting broccoli and extolling the virtues of winter veg in my blog last week I realised that I had forgotten to mention red cabbages. Not only are red cabbages easy to grow


My favourite irises

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 03/06/2008 13:21:00

This is prime iris season: a few weeks when these hugely flamboyant flowers come into their own. I grow two different sorts of iris in my garden: the Siberian iris and the bearded iris. Siberian irises are smaller flowered, have thinner leaves


Nasturtium and thyme

By Jekka McVicar on 02/05/2008 18:00:00

It's now May, and we're just 12 days away from building our display at the Chelsea Flower Show. We've had a few bouts of sunshine in the last week, during which I could literally feel the plants growing.The new Nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus 'Black


Agapanthus seed heads

By Adam Pasco on 13/10/2008 15:18:00

, so I keep the agapanthus pots outside to enjoy for as long as possible before carrying to the winter shelter of my unheated greenhouse.Many of the tender bulbs I grow outside in pots form attractive seed heads, and patient gardeners may be tempted


Preparing beds for planting

By Jane Moore on 14/03/2008 12:29:00

to leave. The beds dedicated to growing hungry crops, such as beans and courgettes will need plenty of organic matter added, such as garden compost or well-rotted horse manure.Beds dedicated to growing root crops, such as carrots and parsnips will not have


Compost and green manures

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

farm or stables then I'm sure I'd be calling in regularly for a few bags of their delicious produce, but now I've discovered an alternative. I'm growing my own compost. Well, actually its correct name is green manure.Several plants can be grown as green


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


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