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Late flowering Chrysanthemums for Autumn colour

I love all of the seasons equally because they all bring their passionate burst of interest in the garden.

Spring time because it starts to shake us from our slumber and it is almost as though our blood is replaced with sap and it rises as the days get longer and sun warmer.

I especially like to see the Peony as it's succulent red fleshy shoots emerge through the sometimes iron frosty soil or the perhaps the Sedum or Alchemilla as the due settles in the top of the new shoots making the water look like little crystal balls,

How to propagate and root rose cuttings

Gardeners are a frugal bunch and most of us have developed a knack of getting our plants for free by collecting seeds, layering cuttings or by propagating cuttings.

I have always wanted to be able to propagate roses by cuttings but never really had a great deal of success. However, now I feel a little more inclined to have a go after stumbling on Santa Clarita Valley Rose Society page Propagating Roses by Rooted Cuttings.

The page is clearly set out with photographs and explanatory text on how to go through the different stages from selecting your six inch stem, wounding the bottom of the stem and dipping into rooting compound.

Allotment keepers handbook review

I am a regular reader of Jane Perrone's allotment and garden blog. It was not a conscious decision to make Jane's blog one of my favourite's, it just happen, but I am glad I did.

Jane (when she finds the time) tells some funny little stories and also gives some great advice to here considerable following.

Now, for all of Jane's fans (both now and in the future) you can actually read about her exploits in the allotment in a new book The Allotment Keepers Handbook.

Brigitte Tee-Hillman New Forest mushrooms

After a long and costly and not to mention humiliating legal battle, the Forestry Commission has been forced to back down after banning a commoner from picking mushrooms.

Brigitte Tee-Hillman, 64 has lived in Lymington in the New Forest all her life and has been collecting mushrooms there for over 30 years. She then sold on her collections from her home.

Tips on frost damage and avoiding plant loss

It has been a strange Autumn - Whilst there has definitely been some frosty weather it was short lived and the southerly winds have kept the temperatures abnormally high.

The weather men say it is likely to be an above average winter so fingers crossed.

Finding cheap gardening tools

Cheap gardening tools - It gets attention. Put the word 'cheap' at the front of anything and potential buyers flock to find out what its all about.

British birds species in decline

Are you thinking of digging up part of the lawn to extend your patio or perhaps constructing a large deck for summer entertaining?

Maybe that area of scrub at the bottom of the garden could be turned into a gravelled storage or parking area for the caravan.

Tranpsorting and storing petrol

One of the great barriers to solving anything is a lack of information.

How many of us encounter a problem every day of our lives but without the proper advice or knowledge we do not always get the right fix and possibly in frustration pay someone else over the odds to sort it out.

British gardens under threat from development

The urban garden is under threat more so now than ever before. Home owners eager to cash in on their investments are selling off what was once a prized vegetable garden to developers who erect flats or one off houses.

Where will this all end? Well if the Councillors in Swindon get their way, legislation will be brought in to change the urban classification of town gardens.

The problem exists at present because gardens in towns are classified as 'Brownfield' which means that they can be developed as though they were an existing factory unit coming up for re-development.

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