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Know Your Nematodes: Your guide to biological pest control

0 Comments 26 February 2010

Limp, unrooted and brown patches in your lawn; unsightly ant hills in your borders; rotting carrots and nibbled cabbages – these are all signs of infestation by one garden pest or another. They can ruin a garden and your enjoyment of it, but you might not want to use potentially damaging chemical insecticides to get [...]

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Flower Friday: Botanicals

1 Comment 19 February 2010

It’s about time I revealed this little obsession of mine. I love botanical prints, the more scientific and instructional the better, and they’re finally back in style. Moving away from simple outlines and bold floral forms, botanical prints are all about the details. Roots, stems, stamens, offshoots – these are flowers as they really look, [...]

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Garden Design Green Awards

1 Comment 17 February 2010

Sarah from Garden Design kindly sent me a link to the magazine's Green Awards which is taking submissions until May this year. If you're a garden design junkie you get to flick through images of beautiful design-based eco gardens; if you're a garden designer you can submit one of your gardens.

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The Issue: Urban Agriculture

0 Comments 15 February 2010

An increasing number of people don't want that many air miles attached to their five-a-day. So this is where urban agriculture comes in: that is, a sustained and permanent effort to grow, process and distribute agricultural produce in urban environments and to incorporate agriculture into urban planning.

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Flower Friday: Saipua

0 Comments 12 February 2010

I fully credit them with making me fall in love with ranunculus, which appears prominently in almost all of their arrangements along with other pretty feminine flowers like blowsy dahlias, traditional English roses and ruffled peonies...