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Urban beekeepers

31. August 2009

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Regent Street in London is going to produce its own honey thanks to a hive containing more than 15,000 bees high above the shopping mass.The Crown Estate which owns Regent Street has already installed its first colony and is planning dozens more if the experiment is a success. A special honey garden has been created […]

Climate Change help from RHS

24. August 2009

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The Royal Horticultural Society as the UK’s leading gardening charity has embraced the issues facing gardeners as a result of climate change. It provides excellent climate change information pages on its web-site with advice about the issues our gardens are facing – both now and in the long term future. http://www.rhs.org.uk/climate/index.asp On 6th September RHS […]

Banana Update from the South Coast

23. August 2009

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The very warm weather this week is brilliant news for the fruit on the banana plant growing in Eastbourne that I talked about recently.Finger-like bananas have emerged which look really healthy so I am hoping they will ripen soon. Its an amazing site that I see every time I walk to the the Meads.I can’t […]

Other people’s gardens

23. August 2009

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The sun continues to shine and temperatures are still high creating some wonderful sights in people’s gardens. Checking out what the neighbours are growing is of my favourite things – its a great place to find out what is doing well in your local area and for planting inspiration.Maybe this is just an English thing […]

Moonlight Bananas

12. August 2009

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I was walking along a local street tonight when I cames across across this amazing site: A banana plant bearing some impressive looking large bracts ( leaf-like structure) that are shed as the fruit develops http://www.kew.org/ksheets/banana According to the RHS, bananas rarely produce fruit outdoors in the UK as they need constant warm and humid […]

Climate Change Nurseries

10. August 2009

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Welcome to the Climate Change Nursery Guide It is important to seek out good quality plants for climate change gardening so that they have the best chance of coping with increasingly unpredictable weather conditions. To help in this process, I have created the Climate Change Nursery Guide which offers useful information about the various specialist […]

National Allotments Week inspires veg plot party

9. August 2009

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This week is being celebrated on allotments all over the UK as it is National Allotments Week. Run by the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Growers since 2005, this aims to promote the awareness and availablitity of allotments locally and nationally to demonstrate to local authorities the strength of support and interest for the […]

Tropical and non-tropical Hibiscus

9. August 2009

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Thought I would share this beautiful Hibiscus with you . Three weeks ago I bought a standard plant brimming with buds which now sits on my desk.Every morning another beautiful flower is there to greet me when I sit down at my computer to work. The colours are particularly unusual – the bright pink centre […]

Late Summer Hot Flower Flush

5. August 2009

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This is what the Met Office is predicting for late August through to September and, if today’s temperatures of 28c are anything to go by, it looks promising. At this time of year the traditional herbaceous border looks a bit down in the dumps – flowering is over for many plants and the endless round […]

Weather cycles and cycads

1. August 2009

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Yesterday marked the end of a rather mixed bag of weather for July in the UK – not the welcome heatwave we were all expecting. I have given up listening to the forecasters – they always seems to get it wrong for Eastbourne which appears to have its own wonderful micro-climate. Often it is the […]

Archive | August, 2009

Urban beekeepers

Climate Change help from RHS

Banana Update from the South Coast

Other people’s gardens

Moonlight Bananas

Climate Change Nurseries

National Allotments Week inspires veg plot party

Tropical and non-tropical Hibiscus

Late Summer Hot Flower Flush

Weather cycles and cycads

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