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Attracting Ladybugs

Ladybugs in the garden will help to eliminate destructive pests like aphids, mites and scale.

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Getting ladybugs to come to your garden, and more importantly stay in your garden, is easy once you know a few simple facts and tricks. 

Camellias

The most famous camellia is the tea plant, Camellia sinensis. The fresh new tips are picked and dried, ready for drinking.

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Camellias are not only popular with tea drinkers but gardeners also. They are easy care, have wonderful glossy green leaves and beautiful flowers of many shapes and sizes. It is no wonder they are one of the best evergreen flowering shrubs.

Carnivorous Plants

Caring for Carnivorous Plants

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As bog plants, most carnivorous plants require damp, humid conditions to thrive. All plants except butterworts will appreciate a bright sunny position, ideally on a windowsill close to the glass. Butterworts do best in lower light levels and should be kept out of direct sunlight.

January Gardening

Keeping your garden worthy of admiration

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Summer is here and our sunny warm days are spent outdoors enjoying nature, family BBQs and, of course, tending to the garden. It's now time to be planting our winter greens and getting them all sown before months end to allow enough time for them to reach full maturity before the colder months halt growing.  

December Gardening

Mid-summer maintenance and disease prevention

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Aside from getting the garden looking spick and span for when all your relatives come visiting over the Christmas period, there are certain, more mundane, things that need to be taken care of during these lovely mid-summer days. 

November Gardening

Sowing seeds for Autumn & Winter veggies

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November is action stations for the seed-sowing vegetable gardeners. So much has to be sown to keep us going through autumn and winter and is a good time to plant your favourite summer vegetables such as courgette, cucumber, peppers, pumpkin and squash all of which need long hours of full sunshine.

September Gardening

When spring is first sprung

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Welcome to Spring! September marks the beginning of Spring and holds the Spring Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere. This means, the daffodils start coming out, Spring blossom is abundant, the days are getting warmer and brighter, and they all contribute to the sweet, fresh spring scent in the air and all the possibilities that the warmer weather entails. Lets get gardening! 

June Gardening

Soil preparation for planting out

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June is all about new season's roses arriving in store. Most flower gardeners consider it unthinkable to create a garden without roses as they can easily lift your garden out of the ordinary. Simply by situating them so...