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On pests and diseases and an indepth look at honey fungus
The Royal Horticultural Society ranks the top 10 pests and diseases in the UK based on the queries received by their help desk. And top of the list of…
Nov 26, 2025
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Growing plants for mulch and the conservation of an endangered palm
Its the time of year when we should be mulching our soil to protect it for the coming winter. But do you produce enough mulch to be self sufficient? I…
Nov 19, 2025
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Looking back on a hot, dry summer
This week I list some of my successes and some of the not so successful aspects of the summer garden, plus news of my garden appearing on Gardener's…
Oct 17, 2025
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A garden update
This week in the garden with salvias (and how to propagate them), a false autumn, hedgerow food for wildlife and hedge trimming
Sep 29, 2025
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Sally Morgan
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Two inspiring Dublin gardens, a quick plant quiz… and a greenhouse zombie?!
Two inspirational gardens in Dublin, a short edimental plant quiz and if you scroll to the end you can read about the zombie in my greenhouse!
Aug 18, 2025
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RHS Chelsea 2025 - my favourite bits
I spent the day at RHS Chelsea wandering round, taking photos and generally looking for ideas to take away, of which there were plenty. And one garden…
May 21, 2025
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A nature inspired garden, making compost and coping with ground elder
This week I’m writing about a wonderful garden nestled by a river in the Brecon Beacons in Wales. If I mention its a RHS Partner garden, you will…
Apr 18, 2025
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Make your own potting composts and a seed sowing experiment
Do you buy bags of potting compost / mixes? Why not make your own from readily available ingredients? And do you use a commercial seed sowing compost…
Apr 9, 2025
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Peat, climate change, and mushrooms
Summer in spring, the importance of protecting the world's peatlands to combat climate change and why we should avoid spent mushroom compost
Apr 3, 2025
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Spring, snowdrops, and saved seed
As we look forward to a new growing season, I look back on the snowdrop season, and think about saved seed and its genetic diversity, plus I delve into…
Feb 26, 2025
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Sally Morgan
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Cloning
This week's post is all about the lack of genetic diversity in many of our gardens and why we need to address this in order to create a more…
Feb 19, 2025
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Roses and a changing climate
Resilience 4 Roses, climate change, pests & disease, treating black spot and the role of the phyllosphere
Feb 7, 2025
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Sally Morgan
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