PLACES TO VISIT, HORTICULTURAL SHOWS, COOL GARDENS
Harrogate Spring Flower Show preview 2018
Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, April 26-29
The Harrogate Spring and Autumn Flower Shows are the highlights of my gardening year, rated the best horticultural events...
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GARDENING NEWS, PRODUCTS, REVIEWS
ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, COMMENT
New study: bird feeders can be disease risk
Close contact with other birds can increase disease unless cleaned regularly
Many of us feed birds in winter, but a new study has claimed it...
Save bees: donate to free seeds campaign
38 Degrees aims to send free pollinator-friendly seeds all over the UK
Want to help protect our bees? Well, thanks to a campaign by 38...
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
American kaki fruit and pawpaw Pennsylvania Golden
A taste of the exotic in your garden from Lubera
After unusual fruit for your garden? Look no further than these two from Lubera, American...
Tomato choice 2018
All cherries of various colours
Like most of us, I'm way behind my usual schedule of sowing, thanks to the terrible weather.
The cold, wet and...
11 unusual fruits for adventurous gardeners
Some weird, all wonderful and fruity
Plumcot anyone? Here are 11 unusual fruit trees and bushes for the experimental gardener, chosen by guest blogger Caroline...
GARDENING JOBS, TECHNIQUES, MY GARDEN
5 key gardening jobs April 14-20
Neaten climbers
Tie in honeysuckle, clematis and other climbers as new growth starts to sprout.
Stake perennials
Perennials should be staked early so they can be tied in unobtrusively...
Has spring sprung at last?
Three weeks behind - garden plants try to make up for lost time
Now weeks, not days, behind, my garden seems to be going 'over...
Winter 2017/18: gardening casualties
Dead bodies mount up in worst winter for years
As Monty Don said in his Gardeners' World column earlier this year, it's wise to take a...
