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Towns, Cities and industrial spaces are often dominated by hard surfaces; schools, hospitals and community centres can be surrounded by tarmac, with limited biodiversity, offering little life for pollinators. But with a few wooden planters and a regenerative approach, we can transform these “tarmac deserts” into thriving growing spaces. By building wooden planters and filling […]
Read more →March and April are the perfect months to sow the stunning Echium ‘Blue Bedder’, a fast-growing annual that brings a haze of vivid cobalt-blue flowers to beds, borders, and wildlife gardens. Once it gets going, this beautiful plant quickly becomes one of the busiest spots in the garden. Closely related to our native Viper’s Bugloss […]
Read more →Pulmonaria, or ‘Lungwort’ as it is commonly known, is a genus of flowering plants in the Boraginaceae family, native to Europe and western Asia. Traditionally, Pulmonaria plants have been used in herbal medicine for their purported respiratory and lung related benefits, hence the common name. These hardy, herbaceous perennials are renowned for their distinctive spotted […]
Read more →At the start of the year, as the weather gets milder and the days longer, thoughts may turn to the garden. If you’re looking for something to brighten up the early part of the gardening year, and offer welcome sustenance for pollinators into the bargain, then look no further than the humble Hellebore. Hellebores make wonderful, […]
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