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Keeping Onā€”Toni Gattone shares tips on how to be a forever gardener

Toni Gattone doesnā€™t ever want to stop gardening. This prolific writer, dynamic speaker, and author of an upcoming book on adaptive gardening from Timber Press says, ā€œWe all have physical limitations. Especially as we get older. But the question isā€”how and when and what do you change so you can keep on doing what you […]

HARTLEY BOTANICā€™S TRADESTAND SCOOPS 5 STARS AND DIRECTOR GENERAL LINLEY ACCOLADE AT RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW – PRESS RELEASE

Press Release For Immediate Release Wednesday 23rd May 2018 Hartley Botanic Tradestand ā€“ stand number SR32 Lancashire-based greenhouse and glasshouse manufacturer Hartley Botanic has this year been awarded both the 5 Star award and the Director Generalā€™s Linley award for its ā€˜provenance and historyā€™ themed tradestand at this yearā€™s RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The stand, […]

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Grow Your Own Avocados and Mangos

Avocados and mangos are both very popular fruits, not just for their delicious flavors and versatility, but also for their significant health benefits. Both are loaded with vitamins and powerful antioxidants, in addition to many other nutrient properties. These characteristics are among the reasons why health-conscious people are increasingly adding them to their diets. Most […]

Named after ashes this is not at all dull

Some plants, and oddly rather many glasshouse plants, have somewhat misleading common names. This gem has perversely come to be known as Cineraria though it is not a Cineraria but a Senecio. Cinerarias are so named for their soft white downy leaves like cineres the Latin for ashes. Some Senecios also have white or grey […]

HARTLEY BOTANICā€™S 2018 RHS CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW TRADE STAND

This year, British greenhouse and glasshouse manufacturer Hartley Botanic is celebrating a landmark 80th anniversary. The Lancashire-based business, which was founded in 1938 by brothers Vincent (RHS fellow) and Norman Hartley has been making its beautiful, handmade and bespoke aluminium greenhouses and glasshouses for 80 ā€˜trustedā€™ years, working from the same artisan factory beneath the […]

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Growing Organic Fruits and Vegetables Year-Round

Have you noticed that produce has become more expensive in supermarkets lately? One reason is the cost of transporting fruits and vegetables from the southern hemisphere, another is unfavorable recent weather in California, a major supplier of produce, and a third is a decreased number of migrant workers available for harvests. If youā€™re a greenhouse […]

What is the best way to make compost?

Thereā€™s a lot of unnecessary myth and magic about making garden compost says Jean Vernon First letā€™s unravel the confusion between the compost that you buy in bags for container plants and growing seeds. This, the trade, is called growing medium and is basically specially formulated to a precise recipe with a variety of ingredients, […]