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pool sun lounger umbrella You might have seen the headlines warning about the 3-hour gardening rule and wondered if it can really be that dangerous to get green fingered between the hours of 11 am and 2 pm. Forcing you to consider parking all your backyard ideas for the foreseeable future. As an unprecedented heatwave…
Gardening is widely regarded as a moderate to strenuous form of exercise. All that bending, lifting, digging and hauling burns calories and builds muscle. But it can also strain backs and leave even the fittest among us aching the next day. And when we’re less fit, or have arthritis, a limited range of motion or…
A thriving British family business that makes hand-made gardening products has been taken to court by international fashion giant Louis Vuitton in a trademark spat over the company’s use of the initials “L V.” The Norfolk-based company, L V Bespoke, was started by couple Lawrence and Victoria Osborne after their construction business was shut down during…
Making its debut this year is Luminary Sunset Coral tall garden phlox. I grew it last year as part of Proven Winners’ garden writer trial program and fell madly in love with it. The color is electrifying in the garden — so thrilling in fact, that I just had to add more plants this year….
You spell potato, Dan Quayle spells it P-O-T-A-T-O-E. Some of you may recall the Vice President’s 1992 gaffe making a 6th-grader misspell “Potato.” In the VP’s defense, however, he was using an incorrect flash card prepared by a teacher. Quayle later wrote in his memoirs, “I can’t overstate how discouraging and exasperating the whole event…
watering flowers Q: I recently heard that using distilled water on plants can benefit them. Is this true? I usually use harvested rainwater, and wondered if it’s worth making the switch. A: Watering plants, as you’ll already know, is a crucial part of plant care. But the type of water that you use can make…
A flowerbed beside a white wall, with mature shrubs, and alliums and agapanthus flowers. A former sloping garden, redesigned and terraced cottage garden in a village in Dorset, home of Judith and Michael Rust. Electroculture gardening and pyramid energy are doing the rounds on TikTok at the moment, and, while they might sound like the…
A popular meme circulating on social media proclaims, “You don’t stop gardening when you get old, you get old when you stop gardening.” Come to think of it, a lot of the most impressive landscapes I visit in the course of my job as a garden writer/author are tended by green-fingered folks who are seniors….
