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Hi my friend  who lives in a care home got a christmas cactus   a few  weeks ago, but even though the plant is very healthy and green with lots of  pink shoots ready to flower they have just dropped off, why has this happened is it tt  warm

Every family has their own Christmas traditions – the festive season just wouldn’t be the same without them. Some of ours have been going for as long as I can remember, passed on to successive generations to enjoy.Down come the boxes of carefully

Happy Christmas Adam. A very Merry Christmas to all at Gardeners World and thanks for all  the interesting and practical articles throughout the year! It has always been a tradition in our house to have fresh veg from the garden on Christmas day

Last year we made a momentous decision. After many years of buying real Christmas trees to decorate our home over the festive period, we decided to buy a fake one.Previously we had endless scenarios like this:"Are you going to get the tree

Happy New Year to you A very Happy New Year to you as well martymower,  lets hope that next year we can all enjoy some good gardening weather. Have a wonderful christmas and a bright new year. Happy Christmas and a happy gardening year to you!

I was pleased with this year's Christmas harvest – much of our Christmas dinner was allotment produce. King Edward potatoes from the garage were roasted, Charlotte new potatoes from store were steamed. Greens took the form of braised leeks and

Decided to get a real Christmas Tree last year and bought one in a pot to go on the coffee table, it's about 2ft tall. It went outside in January and I didn't expect it to survive but it looks as healthy as the day it was bought, hasn't dropped any

Christmas is lurking just around the corner, like a well-oiled middle manager holding a sprig of mistletoe at an office party. So, this is my last blog for Gardeners' World before we are all swept away on a breaking wave of tinselled overindulgence

This week I learned that there is little point in making a Christmas wreath unless you have a bright red front door to hang it on. Or any front door at all, really (both entrances to my flat are PVC French doors, which make the positioning of a

It is December (already) and Christmas is lurking around the corner like a tinsel clad, benevolent bogeyman dripping with cranberry sauce and liqueur chocolates.You know that perennial question “what would you like for Christmas”? It was all so very