In the Garden - Summer Gardening
More colour, less fuss
Nothing says spring like a garden full of flowers. Keeping up the colour right through spring, summer and autumn is easy to achieve with so many long flowering modern hybrids at our disposal.
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Nothing says spring like a garden full of flowers. Keeping up the colour right through spring, summer and autumn is easy to achieve with so many long flowering modern hybrids at our disposal.
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Summer from seed
November is planting time for some favourite summer crops. Sarah O'Neil speaks from experience about sowing seed outdoors.
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November is planting time for some favourite summer crops. Sarah O'Neil speaks from experience about sowing seed outdoors.
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The taste of Summer - tomatoes
As far as Sarah O'Neil is concerned, summer only means one thing - Tomatoes
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As far as Sarah O'Neil is concerned, summer only means one thing - Tomatoes
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A cucumber a day
Summer brings such simple pleasures - like taking a break on a hot day to munch on a fresh crunchy cucumber picked straight from the garden.
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Summer brings such simple pleasures - like taking a break on a hot day to munch on a fresh crunchy cucumber picked straight from the garden.
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A new lease on life!
Revive, reveamp, repurpose! When it's time to freshen up the home interior, there is great satisfaction in making the most of what we already have. Especially when stretching the budget also helps to minimise our impact on the planet.
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Revive, reveamp, repurpose! When it's time to freshen up the home interior, there is great satisfaction in making the most of what we already have. Especially when stretching the budget also helps to minimise our impact on the planet.
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Be a sun smart gardener
Gardening is a healthy pursuit in so many ways, but it is also an outdoor pursuit. Sue Linn relates how she deals with her love of gardening and being safe in the sun
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Gardening is a healthy pursuit in so many ways, but it is also an outdoor pursuit. Sue Linn relates how she deals with her love of gardening and being safe in the sun
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Drought alert!
It's dry out there and your garden will be stressed. Here's 10 tips to help it get through.
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It's dry out there and your garden will be stressed. Here's 10 tips to help it get through.
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Floriferous!
A colourful garden that peaks in high summer is a magnet for beneficial insects and provides loads of flowers for picking. These free-flowering favourites deliver maximum satisfaction for minimal effort.
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A colourful garden that peaks in high summer is a magnet for beneficial insects and provides loads of flowers for picking. These free-flowering favourites deliver maximum satisfaction for minimal effort.
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From the patio to the plate
Simply sow some seed in the comfort of a sheltered patio and watch them grow. In a month's time or less, you can be snipping them for dinner without even putting your gumboots on.
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Simply sow some seed in the comfort of a sheltered patio and watch them grow. In a month's time or less, you can be snipping them for dinner without even putting your gumboots on.
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Marigolds
Generous, cheerful resilient marigolds are hardy characters who get going when the going gets tough.
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Generous, cheerful resilient marigolds are hardy characters who get going when the going gets tough.
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Pride of the patch
It's planting time for those warm-weather vegetables that will feed the family for six months or more.
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It's planting time for those warm-weather vegetables that will feed the family for six months or more.
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Summer colour for butterflies
Load your garden with colourful plants to ensure you have a blazing display to attract as many butterflies as possible.
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Load your garden with colourful plants to ensure you have a blazing display to attract as many butterflies as possible.
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Summer in bloom
These summer flowering perennials are a selection of easy care plants that fill a variety of garden situations.
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These summer flowering perennials are a selection of easy care plants that fill a variety of garden situations.
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Survive and thrive!
As is right and proper in the excitement of spring, planting enthusiasm reaches heady heights and summer crops are well underway in gardens all round the country.
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As is right and proper in the excitement of spring, planting enthusiasm reaches heady heights and summer crops are well underway in gardens all round the country.
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Surviving summer
Early summer rain and warm temperatures see vegetable crops leaping into growth, but as summer progresses there will be hotter drier weather and expanding pest populations.
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Early summer rain and warm temperatures see vegetable crops leaping into growth, but as summer progresses there will be hotter drier weather and expanding pest populations.
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Taking care of tomatoes
At planting time, sturdy young tomato plants show no sign of trouble ahead but wise gardeners are on watch.
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At planting time, sturdy young tomato plants show no sign of trouble ahead but wise gardeners are on watch.
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Talking tomatoes
Tomatoes must be one of the most rewarding summer crops. Get the basics right and we can all grow a crop to be proud of. But it's always useful to talk to someone who's been doing it for years. Sue Linn talks to two experienced tomato enthusiasts.
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Tomatoes must be one of the most rewarding summer crops. Get the basics right and we can all grow a crop to be proud of. But it's always useful to talk to someone who's been doing it for years. Sue Linn talks to two experienced tomato enthusiasts.
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The sweet taste of Summer
Picture your summer vege garden bursting at the seams with colour, health and vitality. Picking armloads of fresh, sweet homegrown fruit and veges to feed family and friends is one of summer's greatest joys, but there's no time to waste if we're to make the most of the warm months ahead.
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Picture your summer vege garden bursting at the seams with colour, health and vitality. Picking armloads of fresh, sweet homegrown fruit and veges to feed family and friends is one of summer's greatest joys, but there's no time to waste if we're to make the most of the warm months ahead.
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The taste of summer
There is something about the strange smell the tomato plant gives off, the scent of anticipation. Soon there will be tomatoes ripening within the branches
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There is something about the strange smell the tomato plant gives off, the scent of anticipation. Soon there will be tomatoes ripening within the branches
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The world smiles in daisies
Simple sun-loving daisies are among the most prolific summer flowers. These easy-going, easy to grow plants provide lashings of colour and bees love them too.
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Simple sun-loving daisies are among the most prolific summer flowers. These easy-going, easy to grow plants provide lashings of colour and bees love them too.
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Berry delight
Beautiful perennial 'Berry Delight' nemesias are another exciting feature for the spring cottage garden, hanging baskets and pots. Those magical early spring blooms are now bigger and more fragrant than ever.
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Beautiful perennial 'Berry Delight' nemesias are another exciting feature for the spring cottage garden, hanging baskets and pots. Those magical early spring blooms are now bigger and more fragrant than ever.
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Designing with flowers
If colour is your thing, or if you love to keep your vases full of flowers, modern breeding has delivered a plethora of plants that deliver bloom after bloom in the hottest months of year. Master the art of planting a garden that keeps on giving throughout summer and beyond.
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If colour is your thing, or if you love to keep your vases full of flowers, modern breeding has delivered a plethora of plants that deliver bloom after bloom in the hottest months of year. Master the art of planting a garden that keeps on giving throughout summer and beyond.
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Easy on the eye
Flowering perfection in a rainbow of colours. New Alstromerias perfect for pots and the garden.
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Flowering perfection in a rainbow of colours. New Alstromerias perfect for pots and the garden.
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Environmentally safe Agapanthus
Agapanthus are often looked on as a weedy plant but there are a new generation of agapanthus available that don't spread themselves around.
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Agapanthus are often looked on as a weedy plant but there are a new generation of agapanthus available that don't spread themselves around.
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Love Me & Leave Me
Going on holiday can cause anxiety. Will plants survive without daily care? However 'Love me and Leave Me' Roses will be just fine.
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Going on holiday can cause anxiety. Will plants survive without daily care? However 'Love me and Leave Me' Roses will be just fine.
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Perfectly petunia
How do you like your petunias? Big and blousy or dainty and diminutive? Spreading and tumbling or chunky and upright? Striped, starred, multi-toned or plain? Bright brazen reds, pinks and . . .
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How do you like your petunias? Big and blousy or dainty and diminutive? Spreading and tumbling or chunky and upright? Striped, starred, multi-toned or plain? Bright brazen reds, pinks and . . .
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Princess Lavenders
The very best of breeding is bringing the wow factor to outdoor living spaces and lavenders are extending the gardener's design palette with new colours and textures.
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The very best of breeding is bringing the wow factor to outdoor living spaces and lavenders are extending the gardener's design palette with new colours and textures.
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Roll out the Red Carpet, it's SHOWTIME!
The world's favourite romantic bloom really puts on a show when the curtain rises to warm summer weather. Summer is the ultimate time of year for lovers of roses.
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The world's favourite romantic bloom really puts on a show when the curtain rises to warm summer weather. Summer is the ultimate time of year for lovers of roses.
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Salvia Wishes
A lovely new range of uniquely coloured salvias is proof that wishes can come true
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A lovely new range of uniquely coloured salvias is proof that wishes can come true
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Summer garden design solutions
Summer's a great time of year to work on some garden design solutions like how to make your garden beds look a whole lot better
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Summer's a great time of year to work on some garden design solutions like how to make your garden beds look a whole lot better
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Sun worshippers
Impatiens; they're a top choice for cheerful garden borders or adding bright pops of colour among shrubs and perennials. But they've always needed shade. That is, until SunPatiens came along!
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Impatiens; they're a top choice for cheerful garden borders or adding bright pops of colour among shrubs and perennials. But they've always needed shade. That is, until SunPatiens came along!
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Tried and true Lavender
Easy care lavenders are among life's simplest pleasures and have stood the test of time as some of the most accommodating shrubs of all.
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Easy care lavenders are among life's simplest pleasures and have stood the test of time as some of the most accommodating shrubs of all.
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Voodoo Magic
Floriferous Voodoo Verbenas are taking their place among summer's top flowers.
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Floriferous Voodoo Verbenas are taking their place among summer's top flowers.
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Winning combinations
Successfully combining flowers and foliage is an art form that takes time and experimentation, even for the most practiced gardener. But happily, we can also depend on some classic combos that always come up trumps.
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Successfully combining flowers and foliage is an art form that takes time and experimentation, even for the most practiced gardener. But happily, we can also depend on some classic combos that always come up trumps.
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Kids Go Gardening - flutterby butterfly
Planting a butterfly garden is easy and you'll be rewarded with the fluttering of butterflies all through the summer
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Planting a butterfly garden is easy and you'll be rewarded with the fluttering of butterflies all through the summer
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Kids Go Gardening - fun with herbs!
Herbs are fun and easy to grow in pots or in the garden. Squeeze their leaves and breathe in their awesome scents.
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Herbs are fun and easy to grow in pots or in the garden. Squeeze their leaves and breathe in their awesome scents.
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Kids Go Gardening - grow giant pumpkins
Weird and wonderful! It is planting time for giant pumpkins - maybe the biggest pumpkin you ever grew!
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Weird and wonderful! It is planting time for giant pumpkins - maybe the biggest pumpkin you ever grew!
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Kids Go Gardening - hypertufa pots
Do you like making mud pies? With a bit of help from a grown up you can take it to another level and make your own fake rock "Hypertufa" pots.
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Do you like making mud pies? With a bit of help from a grown up you can take it to another level and make your own fake rock "Hypertufa" pots.
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Kids Go Gardening - plant a bite sized treat
Here comes summer! It's time to plant tomatoes! Cherry tomatoes make a sweet colourful snack, just the right size for your lunchbox. Grow your own and taste the sunshine in them!
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Here comes summer! It's time to plant tomatoes! Cherry tomatoes make a sweet colourful snack, just the right size for your lunchbox. Grow your own and taste the sunshine in them!
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Good, green giving
A garden centre is just the place to escape the stress of Christmas shopping with a healthy refreshing environment that calms frazzled minds, and where there is a gift for just about anyone.
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A garden centre is just the place to escape the stress of Christmas shopping with a healthy refreshing environment that calms frazzled minds, and where there is a gift for just about anyone.
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The room outside
A space to relax and refuel with the ones we love, the room outdoors is a valuable extension of home.
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A space to relax and refuel with the ones we love, the room outdoors is a valuable extension of home.
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Beat the heat!
As each summer seems to sizzle hotter and drier than the last, gardeners are feeling the effects of climate change, and the need to make adjustments in the garden.
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As each summer seems to sizzle hotter and drier than the last, gardeners are feeling the effects of climate change, and the need to make adjustments in the garden.
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20-Apr-2024
In the Garden
