Gardening Advice

Award-Winning Gardener’s Exciting Border Design Service

 Award-Winning Gardener’s New Border Design Service

An expert garden designer has launched a new service offering gardeners the chance to create their very own award-winning borders.

Philippa Pearson, whose design and planting skills have been scrutinised by and rewarded with medals from Royal Horticultural Society judges over the last five years, is offering a tailor made, affordable border design service that takes into account your specific gardening conditions: An online form outlining the needs and requirements for the border is the basis for Philippa to create a unique hand drawn colour border design, using plants suited to the soil, site conditions and the garden owner’s personal design wishes. A shopping list is provided, specifying which plants to buy, and how many, plus a useful plant maintenance schedule, to help with caring for the border throughout the seasons is also part of the service. The specialist on-line garden store Crocus has teamed up with Philippa, to offer a 10% discount off plants for the new border. The choice of top garden designers, Crocus have grown and supplied plants for Philippa’s own award winning show gardens.

“I think all gardeners face times when they would appreciate some expert advice and knowledge,” explains Philippa.

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Beat the Snow This Winter With the Award-Winning ‘Snow Wovel’

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Last winters heavy snow fall saw millions of UK households unable to clear their paths and driveways for many days and even weeks.

Apart from the immense inconvenience caused, the snow was also directly responsible for a record number of falls and accidents.

Now, as meteorologists predict another winter in which high levels of snow are likely, the UK launch of an innovative and award-winning snow shovel, the ‘Sno Wovel’ comes as a timely godsend.

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Trees Direct Sends Trees As Gifts

 Trees Direct Sends Trees As Gifts

Trees Direct specialise in sending trees as gifts and offer an attractive choice providing a beautiful, balanced and useful collection.

All are chosen for their colour, blossom, shape and size, to suit all types of garden and patios and are also helpful to wildlife and the environment.

The idea for Trees Direct was started around the family dining table in 1999, when they decided they could create a business and also help the environment.

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No More Holiday Watering Woes

 No More Holiday Watering Woes

Summer is upon us, which means gardeners are struggling to strike the fine balance between under-watering and over-watering and wondering who they should get to provide holiday watering cover.

Help is at hand as a company has set up a helpline to provide free watering advice and developed a range of innovative holiday-proof watering products.

Lancashire-based gardening products retailer and manufacturer, Greenhouse Sensation has set up a free ‘Gardening Angel’ phone and email advice service, to answer watering related questions.
According to Gardening Angels, most people know that it is important to ensure plants are not under-watered, because they need water in order to transport nutrients to all parts of a plant, but most people don’t realise that it is just as damaging to over-water.

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Micro Irrigation Products New From Darlac

 Micro Irrigation Products New From Darlac

Darlac always aims to offer the best for your garden and now their new range of micro irrigation products offers the best for your pots and baskets too.

With a micro irrigation kit you can water between one and five pots or hanging baskets from an individual outlet.

Each of the five sprinklers can be adjusted to suit the various requirements of different plants, and combined with one of Darlac’s electronic timers you can save yourself the daily chore of hand watering.

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Grow Your Own Vegetables Made Easy.

 Grow Your Own Vegetables Made Easy.

The new ‘Grow’ range of vegetable growing kits from Greenhouse Sensation, promises to help gardeners develop greener fingers, produce bigger harvests and enjoy stress-free holidays.

These clever vegetable plots and pots automatically feed and water plants to prevent over and under-watering, the chief causes of many common gardening problems.

Simply top-up the growing kit’s integral reservoir and plants are automatically provided with the water they need, when it’s needed.

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Organic, Thrifty Tasty & Eco-Friendly

 Organic, Thrifty Tasty & Eco-Friendly

Delicious, fresh vegetables from your own garden on your dinner table every day – what a luxury!

It needn’t be a worry if you think your garden is too small, or if you only have a few hours to spare.

Complete kits for instant edible gardens have arrived!:

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Plan A Vegetable Garden with The Innovative GrowVeg.com

 Plan A Vegetable Garden with Innovative GrowVeg.com

Following in the footsteps of the Obamas, the Queen and the Prime Minister, planting a kitchen garden is one of the most environmentally friendly ways to start the New Year.

More and more people are including fruit and vegetables in their gardens as they experience the superior taste and health benefits of home-grown food.

However, growing vegetables has traditionally needed more experience than picking out plants from a garden centre; many crops need to be grown from seed, spaced correctly and ‘rotated’ in groups, to prevent the build-up of pests or loss of soil nutrients.

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Create Your Very Own Green Roof

Create Your Very Own Green Roof

Why not turn that dull roof into something spectacular with a low maintenance green roof that offers some worthwhile environmental benefits?

Sedum Supply specialises in growing and supplying a marvellous range of sedum products, for use on green roofs and in garden landscaping projects and has also developed ready grown environmentally friendly wildflower roofs.

Green Roofs are becoming more and more popular in both rural and urban locations and they can be installed on flat roofs as well as roofs with a slope of up to 45 degrees.

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Get Creative With Gap Gardening Products

 Get Creative With Gap Gardening Products

Gap Garden Products is a family run business that has been manufacturering their own high quality hand made garden products for over 25 years; the company is well known within the industry for their quality, expertise, customer services and value for money:

All of their products are made in their factory in Kettering using the best quality materials.

Gap offers a wonderful range of quality products from tables and chairs to plant supports, which have received the stamp of approval from The British Clematis Society, yet more proof of the quality guaranteed in every item.

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