Aquilegia live full sun but do well in partial shade too. They are fully hardy and flower during May and June, self seeding around the garden.
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It is an award-winning bush rose and does well in full sun with fertile, moist, well-drained soil. It is disease resistant and the blooms make excellent cut-flowers.
Forced Chicory has quite a different flavour to the non-forced salad type leaves. The usual colour is white but you can also force the red varieties to serve as Radicchio for a less bitter flavour.
This Orchid has thick, fleshy stems and small, greenish flowers which, once pollinated, produce the popular vanilla pods which can be dried and cured to produce the vanilla we know and love.
The first method of growing is in Suttons Windowsill Mushroom Kits which are amazingly easy and reliable. The kit comes with a base tray filled with pre-spawned substrate and a lid as well as easy-to-follow instructions. All you have to do is keep the substrate moist and out of direct sunlight and you should be picking your first crop in a few weeks followed by at least another two pickings.
Now is the time to sow green manures on your vegetable plot or allotment. At this time of year most people will be harvesting the last of their vegetable crops and will be left with large areas of bare soil. To help stop weeds germinating and to improve the soil […]
I’ve just been to buy my prepared hyacinths and some paper-white narcissi. Here’s what to do to get yours to produce scented flowers in time for Christmas
The British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) is running lots of projects to raise money to fund research into honey bee health, and education programmes for beekeepers.
The Rowan or Sorbus sargentiana is a slow-growing tree with large, sticky red buds in autumn. In spring, dark green leaves are produced which turn a fiery orange and red in autumn. The white flowers are produced in early summer usually followed by red berries which are quickly eaten by birds.
The symptoms to look out for are white-winged insects about 1.5mm long which fly up in clouds from the underside of brassica leaves when disturbed, flat, oval, whitish-green scale-like nymphs are attached to the lower leaf surface and black or greenish-grey sooty moulds can develop on the upper leaf surface on the sticky honeydew excreted by this pest.