June 30, 2009

Garden advice helps the birds – Bridlington Today

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Garden advice helps the birds
Bridlington Today
The RSPB at Bempton wants people to give them a helping hand by not having too tidy a garden. According to Ian Kendall, who works at the RSPB reserve at

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Geoffrey Palmer opens Bledlow gardens – This is Local London

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Geoffrey Palmer opens Bledlow gardens
This is Local London
POPULAR actor Geoffrey Palmer joined guests at the opening of the gardens at Bledlow Manor on Sunday. The 'As Time Goes By…

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A Forest Garden Year – The Ecologist

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A Forest Garden Year
The Ecologist
The thing about permaculture forest gardens is that to a conventional gardener they look like a total mess: no lawns; no raised beds; no crop rotations;

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Raw sewage floods Hampstead Garden Suburb home – Times-Series

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Raw sewage floods Hampstead Garden Suburb home
Times-Series
TWO feet of raw sewage flooded a cottage in Hampstead Garden Suburb on Saturday, causing tens of thousands of pounds of damage.

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Gardens are buzzing with greenfly as searing June weather causes … – Daily Mail

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Daily Mail
Gardens are buzzing with greenfly as searing June weather causes
Daily Mail
The sap-eating bugs are a threat to a quarter of all common garden plant species. The insects are usually between 1mm and 6mm and are usually known as

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June 29, 2009

Glorious Gardens: Tips from the 2004 winner – Chicago Tribune

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Glorious Gardens: Tips from the 2004 winner
Chicago Tribune
In 2004, Melinda Lehman and Jim Cybul of Riverside won the Glorious Gardens Contest with an enchanting combination of lush perennials, roses, self-sowing

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Sowing the seeds of revolution – The Herald

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Sowing the seeds of revolution
The Herald
In the Gorbals area of the city, though, there is just one allotment site: Oatlands Leisure Gardens, which has been working successfully since the late

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