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Gardening Gifts for Mum

Gardening Gifts for Mum

Your mum deserves to be celebrated every day of the year and with Mother’s Day coming up, showing your mum that you appreciate her just became that much more important. Why not make your mum feel cherished with the perfect...

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Colourful Foliage Plants For Your Garden

Colourful Foliage Plants For Your Garden

We all love a splash of colour in the garden. While we tend to think of flowers as the main means of achieving this, they actually have some stiff competition in the colour stakes - foliage can be just as...

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Tools For Planting Bulbs

Tools For Planting Bulbs

Flowering bulbs are a fantastic addition to garden beds, in drifts under trees, and grouped in pots or containers. Their spectacular blooms are unbeatable for form and colour, and many are delightfully fragrant. Whether you’re leaving your bulbs to naturalise...

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Plants For Privacy

Plants For Privacy

Between nosy neighbours and pedestrians peeping over the fence, enjoying your space uninterrupted can sometimes be a challenge. If that rings true, it’s time to start using plants to your advantage. Screening plants are the ideal way to create a...

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What Are Evergreen Plants?

What Are Evergreen Plants?

‘Evergreen’ refers to any plant that retains its foliage throughout the year, as opposed to shedding it ahead of winter. In fact, the foliage doesn’t necessarily have to be green for a plant to qualify as evergreen - for example,...

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Dichondra repens: Is it invasive?

Dichondra repens: Is it invasive?

Is Dichondra repens invasive? This is a commonly asked question. Here, we’ll put those concerns to rest, and explain how to use this plant to great effect in your garden. What sort of plant is it? Dichondra repens, also known...

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Do Trees Absorb Carbon Dioxide?

Do Trees Absorb Carbon Dioxide?

In a word, yes! The more pressing question, though, is whether trees can help solve the ongoing problem of climate change by helping to mitigate CO2 emissions, and if so, how this can best be achieved. Many gardeners are wondering...

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How Do Trees Help The Environment?

How Do Trees Help The Environment?

Trees are essential to life on planet Earth, and with the environmental issues more pressing than ever, awareness of this is becoming more widespread. But what exactly is it that trees do for us? The answer spans a number of...

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Enviro-friendly Plants That Attract Butterflies

Enviro-friendly Plants That Attract Butterflies

How To Attract Butterflies To Your Garden Butterflies are a true pleasure to have in the garden. Not only are they enchanting to watch, they’re also highly beneficial for both the plants in your garden and local wild ecosystems. Want...

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