Amateur Gardening

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Q Can you tell me what this plant is, please? C. Jones-Evans, via email A This is three-cornered leek (Allium triquetrum), an invasive weed that can be troublesome to remove.Fork out the small white bulbs and compost them or take them to your local g

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Annemarie van Wyk of Pretoria writes I planted ‘Forever Delight’ in pots and they receive a lot of afternoon sun. During the past two hot summers they have not done well, even though I watered them every day. Ludwig replies It is possible that the

The Gardener Magazine

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Fact file: The basionym of Merwilla plumbea is Scilla natalensis. A basionym is an earlier, valid scientific name of a species that has since been renamed. Merwilla plumbea, also known as the wild squill, is a member of the Hyacinthacea family. It is

In The Moment

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This is what we call a blockbuster! If you’re celebrating an important event and want something a bit different and extra-special, then this is the one. It’s a great way to show off some of the best flowers of the season and really play with the stru

You South Africa

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A great alternative to putting all your flowers in one vase is spreading the bunch across several vases or glass jars. Here we used a mix of secondhand glass bottles and new vases to display pennygum, chelone, chrysanthemum green button and white lac

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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Window boxes are great for everyone – they brighten the front of the house and the environment generally, providing enjoyment for passers-by too. Go traditional or ring the changes with something different – maybe clashing colours. Or help the envir

Kitchen Garden

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Growing up in Wiltshire, my interest in wild flowers as a child was originally sparked at least partly by economics, identifying correctly the edible wild greens I collected to feed our pet rabbits, when a combination of poor grain harvests and the o

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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Celebrate with these gorgeous gifts from your garden. NSW CHRISTMAS BUSH is stunning as a big indoor floral arrangement. CHRISTMAS ORCHIDS, with their angel-like wings, will lighten up the dark corners in your place. WONGA WONGA VINE rings in the sea

Amateur Gardening

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1 Description of area with vegetation consisting mainly of brushwood or stunted forest growth (7) 6 Genus subject of this week’s Miscellany! (4) 7 Fungal disease attacking potatoes and apples, resulting in dark-coloured crust-like spots (4) 8 Found i

Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft

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Remember that Copic markers will not blend on metal as they do on card, because it’s a non-porous surface. The ink will sit on top of the metal, so any secondary marker you use will pick up this ink and you will need to remove the ink from the tip by

Chicago magazine

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If your pandemic garden consists of a droopy row of herbs on your windowsill, Hank Adams wants you to know it doesn’t have to be that way. With the help of software developers, a horticulturist, and a chemist, the Evanston native launched Rise Garden

Amateur Gardening

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Deadhead plants as soon as flowers fade and remove yellowing, battered foliage. It keeps them looking neat and in shape, and encourages the growth of more buds. Clean bill of health: In next week’s AG (on the shelves from 2 June) I look at ways of be

Kitchen Garden

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As I stood in the most northerly walled garden in mainland Britain, the waves crashing in the distance and the wind swirling around the coastline, this two-acre garden felt remarkably protected, enclosed and full of life. I’d arrived at the Castle of

Country Life

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A creeping perennial that opens like the striking of a clock at 5am-hence the country name of ‘lady-jump-out-of-bed' -but the roots go down to Hades. ‘One should speak kindly of its white and pink flowers, all the same,' considered florilegialist Geo

Pick Me Up

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HALF PRICE! 12 FREE! Peter McDermott, Head Gardener & Plant Expert. Take advantage of this amazing half price offer and illuminate your displays this summer with this sensational palette of vibrant colours – the best ever seen in Begonias. And includ

In The Moment

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Cleome seeds can be bought in a variety of shades. ‘Colour Mix’ has elegant flowers of white, pink and purple, which look rather like daddy long legs on a stem. These look good in the garden and mixed up together in a jumble in a large vase, or you c

The English Garden

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Cape figworts are super shrubs for pots. Protect in winter weather below -10°C. Let opium poppies seed around for silken flowers in pink and purple hues. Grey-green toothed leaves and daisy flowers on a shrub that hails from New Zealand. Felty gre

Liz Earle Wellbeing

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Make the most of the last few pink roses, orange alstroemeria, bright crocosmia and feverfew, with their egg-yolk centres. Bunch together in a small terracotta pot or place a single stem or two in a clear jam jar. For a knock-out display, fill your t

Amateur Gardening

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Golden creeping jenny forms a ponytail of round yellow-green leaves (there’s also cup-shaped yellow flowers). Lovely in baskets until summer’s end, when you can transplant and use it as groundcover beside a pond, in sun or partial shade. H: 4in (10cm

Country Life

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THREE miles south of Ripon, a footpath leads from the medieval ruins of Fountains Abbey across undulating wooded parkland to Markenfield Hall, an impossibly lovely 13th- and early-14th-century fortified manor house, entirely surrounded by its moat. D

BBC Countryfile Magazine

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• Freshly cut willow, wisteria, vine or jasmine stems to make the hoop • Short lengths of mixed robust foliage and berried stems • Secateurs • String (approximately two metres) 1. Make a hoop from freshly cut willow rods or lengths of wisteria, v

Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom

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Cleome seeds can be bought in a variety of shades. ‘Colour Mix’ has elegant flowers of white, pink and purple, which look rather like daddy long legs on a stem. These look good in the garden and mixed up together in a jumble in a large vase, or you c

The English Home

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“Use what you love – this will be so much better than going for second best, which you will live to regret and in a short time find yourself re-doing the project. Often a simple single colour can work well – our Hatley print has been going strong for

SA Garden and Home

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Position: Full sun. Soil: Well-drained, fertile soil. Size: 60cm high by 60cm wide. Flowering season: Late autumn to early summer. Harvesting: Harvest young leaves and open flowers from late autumn through to summer. Parts used: Leaves and petal

American Craft

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“THE CHALLENGE OF BEING bicultural and bilingual is that I live in two different worlds,” notes Salvador Jiménez-Flores, who grew up in Mexico and now lives in Chicago. “Everywhere I live, I am a foreigner.” Jiménez-Flores’ work often examines aspect

Amateur Gardening

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Chenopodium album colonises a border fast and is a host to black bean aphid. Hoe and pull up to control. Stop it seeding – the seeds can live for ages. Small but pervasive, Cardamine hirsuta's explosive seed capsules will shoot their seeds up to 3ft.

Woman's Weekly

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Few plants can beat the impact of roses tumbling from a pergola or arch. To encourage flowering, train stems to arch downwards. ✣ Climbers are great for clothing walls, trellises and arches, and will repeatedly flower. One of the longest-flowering c

BBC Gardeners' World

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Most Michaelmas daisies are saving themselves for September, but this ‘best-of-the-lot’ blue daisy can come into bloom in June and still be going strong in October. Its elegant branching stems carry an abundance of simple flowers. Plant it in an open

Woman's Weekly Living Series

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Hardy geraniums will sit comfortably in sun or shade, so are great filler plants for bridging the gap between both aspects. A dramatic-looking plant that looks fabulous in the heat of summer when most herbaceous perennials will typically be flagging

The Gardener Magazine

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Treat yourself to a lovely new cyclamen variety called ‘Pipoca’. This fabulous and sturdy little plant is a vision of frilly flowers above a dense skirt of small, serrated leaves. It produces a mass of lantern-shaped buds with an acid-yellowish-green