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Buy drought tolerant plants- beat hosepipe ban
Now is the time to think about how your garden will cope with the hosepipe ban that starts today in many areas of the UK. Visit these web-sites to find plants that can thrive in drought conditions.These are specialist nurseries offering quality plants who can also provide helpful planting advice to make sure that you choose [...]
Continue reading...The Palm Centre, Richmond, Surrey
28. June 2010
Hotter summers are great news for growing Palms in the UK Check out this excellent nursery near London The Palm Centre Located not far from Kew Gardens is The Palm Centre which claims to be one of the leading exotic plant nurseries in the UK. This impressive nursery not only stocks a range of palms [...]
Continue reading...Climate Change Gardening
1. May 2010
If you want to find expert advice about climate change gardening visit the web-site of the beautiful Trewithen gardens in Cornwall. They have an excellent information sheet on their home page which is a summary of ideas and advice from a conference organised by Planetnetwork in September 2008. This organisation promotes botanical collections in Britain [...]
Continue reading...Buy locally grown plants
26. April 2010
Yesterday I went to a local Garden Fair which aimed to encourage gardeners to buy locally grown plants whenever possible. More and more nurseries now propagate their own plants which cuts down on air miles and helps gardeners to become even greener. I met lots of interesting people and saw some wonderful plants – managed [...]
Continue reading...April Delight at Athelas
22. April 2010
It was16c today and, even though the wind was cold, I braved the beach for a couple of hours – have a weeks reprieve from commuting to London. Should have been digging over my allotment but I looked at some gardening books for inspiration instead. The blue sky and bright sun-light were impressive for April [...]
Continue reading...How green are our garden centres?
20. April 2010
Spring is when planting mania arrives in the UK. This year it has co-incided with some fabulous weather which means most nurseries and garden centres are busy with people searching for new plants and ideas for their gardens. I am pleased to see more nurseries helping gardeners to adapt to climate change. The english garden [...]
Continue reading...Architectural Plants weather the storms
28. November 2009
Its been incredibly wet and windy everywhere in the UK for the past week but also exceptionally mild for the time of year . Day-time temperatures in the South East have been around 14c and only dropped to 10c at night . This is well above the seasonal average and in keeping with climate change [...]
Continue reading...Climate Change Nurseries
10. August 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Tropical plants at Athelas Plants
8. August 2009
There is an excellent article today in the Sunday Times about the best tropical plants for UK gardens. The article was put together with the help of one of my favourite nurseries - Athelas Plants who have recently launched an award winning e-commerce site http://www.athelasplants.co.uk/ Read about my visit to their wonderful nursery in the [...]
Continue reading...Paramount Plants, Crews Hill, North of London
2. July 2009
Paramount Plants hhtp://www.paramountplants.co.uk is based in Crews Hill, Enfield, just 5 minutes from junction 25 of the M25. It is a very friendly, relaxed nursery with a good range of plants at much cheaper prices than some London nurseries. When I visited they had an impressive display of beautiful, large camelias full of wonderful buds/flowers [...]
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