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• Climbers for Late Summer Colour

  

  The garden is burgeoning into shaggy mayhem at the moment and I love the two or three months when the growth is allowed to get out of control, only to be... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Keeping Your Summer Containers Going

  

  The rain that we have had over the past few days has been very welcome – the smell of the burnt earth that is given off as a shower starts is one of my... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Plants with Scented Leaves

  The plants in our front garden are revelling in the hot dry weather. The Dieramas (Angel’s Fishing Rods) are a picture; their bell shaped flowers held as... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Allotment Jobs

  

  Peas almost ready to pick!The allotment is producing a good range of crops including potatoes, peas, broad beans, carrots, courgettes, mange tout (great in a... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Summer Care of Roses

  The roses in our garden are really enjoying the hot weather of late and are blooming prolifically. In recent past summers, many have not performed as well as... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Summer Daisies

  Many of the summer flowering perennials in our garden are starting to flower now, among them the Shasta Daisies (Leucanthemum). There are a huge range of... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• A Cautionary Tale

  

  Lyme disease is something that most of us have heard about, but something we don’t really talk about, after all it can only be contracted in the USA,... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 GARDENING, HEALTH, HOME

• Plants for Cutting

  

  Colour in the garden at last! With the warmer temperatures and welcome sunshine, plants that have been in bud seemingly for weeks are finally in flower. Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Water in the Garden

  Although there has been a ‘blip’ in the summer weather, Mrs McGregor and I have enjoyed sitting in our garden this month, whenever we have the... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Lawn Care

  The cold weather through spring has meant that I am later than usual in sorting out my lawn. I have been cutting it on a high blade setting while the weather ha... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Planting out

  

  With warmer nights at last after one of the coldest springs on record, my allotment is coming to life and we are already eating radish and salad leaves. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• RHS Chelsea Flower Show Infographic

  

  2013 has proved to be an extraordinary year already, marking a century of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and to celebrate 100 years of inspiration and innovation... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Why I Love Roses...

  Every garden should have at least one scented rose in it and although they may need a little more care than many other plants, the joy of burying my nose in... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Containers for Summer Colour

  

  DiasciaThe sunny weather of late has made me determined to plant up more containers for summer colour. I walked around the garden the other morning and counted... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Multi Level Planting and ‘see Through’ Plants

  

  Allium christophiiThe beautiful show of spring bulbs that we have had in the garden this year has made me think more about multi level planting and ‘see... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Win £1,000 & Transform Your Garden

  

  With the Chelsea Flower show well underway and the great and the good pouring into the Royal Hospital Gardens to view the best of British Garden Design, a very... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• My Chelsea Flower Show Experience by Wellywoman

  

  Copyright of Louise CurleyWe are so pleased to have caught up with Louise from http://wellywoman.wordpress.com after she ventured down to Chelsea to discover th... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• The Delights of Home-grown Compost!

  

  Minnie, our Marketing Director, is a gardening zealot. Nothing enthuses her more than her own home grown asparagus and lettuce (which she munches at Notcutts... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Busy, Busy, Busy!

  

  Part of the allotment 'nursery'!My allotment has been a busy place for the last three weeks and I have been seed sowing and potato planting! Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Malvern Spring Show

  

  Many thanks to Helen Johnstone of The Patient Gardener who has kindly reported on the Malvern Spring Show on behalf on Notcutts. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 GARDENING, HOME