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100 beautiful flower quotes & flower captions for instagram

January 6, 2022 by Catherine

Are you searching for the best flower quotes and flower captions?  This list has over one hundred beautiful flower sayings and inspirational floral quotes to lift your mood and put a smile on your face. The power of flowers Flowers just make life better, don’t they? We use them to convey messages of love and support, we enjoy their beauty and their fragrance, and growing them in our gardens helps us to embrace nature and can even ...

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Win a Seedball mini wildflower meadow pot set

September 3, 2021 by Catherine 90 Comments

This is a collaborative post in partnership with Seedball Welcome to a lovely new giveaway. If you'd like to explore a quick and easy way to make your garden more wildlife-friendly, this is perfect for you :) I'm teaming up with the lovely people at Seedball to give away four sets of their Mini Meadow Pots, which are a super-simple way to grow wildflowers in even the smallest of spaces. Why you should plant wildflowers There are ...

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Easy autumn gardening: planting wildflowers to support bees

August 27, 2020 by Catherine Leave a Comment

This is a collaborative post in partnership with The Grass People Would you like to make your garden more bee-friendly?  If the answer is yes, autumn is a great time to do just that by planting wildflowers. You may already be aware that bees are struggling, with species and numbers in dramatic decline.  Bees play a crucial role in the pollination of plants - and that’s all plants, including food crops.  Around a third of ...

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The best flowers for bees, and easy ways to make your garden bee friendly

July 25, 2020 by Catherine 11 Comments

Is your garden popular with bees? If not, here are some easy ways to transform it into a bee friendly garden that these vital insects will love to visit. Why bees are important If you’re interested in gardening and nature, you’re probably aware that bees are in trouble, with numbers and species in quite dramatic decline.  What you might not be aware of is just how important bees are to us, and the planet in general. Native bees ...

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Gardening Calendar: What to Plant in April

March 9, 2020 by Catherine 1 Comment

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If you’re keen to sow, grow and plant things this month, here are some ideas for what to plant in April. April is when things really start to get going in the garden. The soil is warming up, the risk of frost is much lower, and there's lots of planting to be done! Flowers to plant in April Bedding plant & hardy annual seeds April is a good time to sow seeds for hardy annuals and summer bedding plants. Growing these plants from ...

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Giving nature a home in our garden: sowing wildflowers

March 27, 2018 by Catherine 22 Comments

sowing wildflowers on an unused patch of land

If you’re a regular reader, you’ll be aware that we’re joining forces with the RSPB 'Give nature a home in your garden' campaign.  With 60% of the UK’s wildlife species seeing decline over the last fifty years, the campaign aims to encourage us all to take small, achievable steps to help nature in our own green spaces. We’re going to be sharing our experiences as we try out lots of fun family activities to make a home for nature in our own ...

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How well do you know your weeds from your plants?

May 19, 2016 by Catherine Leave a Comment

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When it comes to keeping your garden looking lovely, how well do you know your weeds from your plants? Most of us are familiar with the common weeds that can cause problems in our gardens, and can probably identify culprits such as dandelions, daisies, nettles, creeping buttercup and bindweed.  But there's a whole host of wild plants that could easily be tricking you into thinking they're actually cultivated varieties. So how do you work out ...

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15 Inspiring garden projects

April 11, 2016 by Catherine 9 Comments

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Have you caught the gardening bug yet this year? With Spring well underway and National Gardening Week starting today, lots of us will be thinking about sprucing up the garden.  Whether you want to just tidy things up a bit, introduce some new plants, or plan a big garden project, it's always really inspiring to take a look at what other people are up to. To help you with your garden plans for the year, some of the UK’s top home and ...

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Wildflower wanderings

August 6, 2015 by Catherine 22 Comments

wildflower field

Have you ever had the chance to roam through fields of wildflowers?  It’s the stuff of romantic novels and Hollywood movies isn’t it, and certainly not something I expected to be able to do locally - but that’s exactly what we spent an afternoon doing at Naturescape wildlflower farm in Langar, Nottinghamshire. Naturescape is a 90 acre wildflower farm, producing native species of wildflowers and grasses primarily for the wholesale wildflower ...

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