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From Jim McLaren, East Kilbride, Glasgow, UK
...It also owed £421 to private-hire group Addison Lee and £4,000 to a landscape gardener....
...How best can gardeners follow on? I will address my answers to keen beginners. This column is not pitched to go above their shrewd heads....
The gardener on trusting her husband on all things moral, her pet cow George and her untidy streak
...Charlie McCormick is a gardener based in West Dorset and Scotland...
...Back then, head gardener Hicks would cut down young specimens every year, so forcing vast, jungly leaves, a tradition that continues today....
...One day I will have the time to commit to it, but until then I’ll settle for this hand-forged planting spade with ash handle that is head gardener Fergus Garrett’s favourite tool. greatdixter.co.uk Bordallo...
...In last year’s late frosts Wisley’s gardeners lit fires at night, like vineyard owners in France or the orchard farmers in Chekhov’s great short story “The Black Monk”: the Wisley gardeners too wanted to...
...The picture challenges gardeners’ sense of colour by departing from reality, yet conveying so much more....
...steps above the Churchill War Rooms with a figure who symbolises the importance of innovation and commerce in Britain’s past and future place in the world — George Stephenson, for example, philanthropist, gardener...
...Gardeners need to take into account variable factors such as local weather, regional climate and other claims on their time....
...It is one for keen gardeners and though it is specialised it is not difficult to satisfy....
...As a gardener, I am wary of learning too much. The past year left a mixed legacy for learners. In Britain, it was friendly to gardeners from spring until mid-autumn....
...To the seasoned gardener, many of these practices might seem familiar. No-till farming, whereby you avoid disturbing the soil’s structure, is adjacent in concept to no-dig gardening....
...What do gardeners think of this new naturalising and how can they carry the idea forwards?...
...Orange flowers, avoided by many gardeners, stand out well, she finds, at a distance and match especially well with blue and green....
...Wilding is a hot topic for gardeners. What does it entail? Less gardening and more weeds? Big groups of foreign grasses and masses of herbaceous perennials in shades of rosy mauve and yellow?...
...The tales of loyalty, of those left to suffer in Afghanistan, are harrowing but her hero is inspiring, Shaista Gul, son of a gardener and a gardener himself....
...It is dedicated to Cecilio Rodríguez, a chief gardener who spent his entire life working in the Retiro since joining as an apprentice aged eight....
...The long Easter weekend is superbly timed for gardeners. All they need is some tolerable weather and in Britain, an end to the constant rain....
...Over those two years, my time as an urban gardener has taught me two things....
...Its magical architecture and topiary provides an epic backdrop to beautiful planting by head gardener Steve Lannin. ifordmanor.co.uk Water Lane, Kent The only thing better than gardens is great food in...
...Like British weather, Mediterranean conditions are changing, forcing gardeners to change too....
...“Misting a plant briefly raises the humidity around the plant, but as soon as the leaves dry, the humidity reverts to its original state,” says Dr Scott Zona, author of A Gardener’s Guide to Botany....
...I was to talk for the Beatrix Farrand Society on running a college garden, a task that I share with Farrand, the first landscape gardener to be appointed for an American collegiate campus, beginning at Princeton...
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