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Cyclamen

How to grow & Care for Cyclamen

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Flowering at a time of year when little else can be found flowering, Cyclamen are a popular indoor houseplant. With their beautiful, long-lasting flowers and interesting heart-shaped leaves with a marbled silvery pattern, who can resist one to brighten up any room in the house!

Easy Care Gardens

Easy Care Gardens

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An easy-care garden is a perfect answer for the homeowner who wants an attractive garden to enhance and add value to the house but wants to spend their weekends enjoying leisure activities. The wide range of colourful, hardy, low-maintenance plants and quality landscape materials available makes all this possible 

Climbers

Climbers create rooms and atmosphere in the garden

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There is always a place for a climber or two. Whether it is to hide an eyesore or to soften architectural lines, they can be grown up walls, over archways, or along fences - such is their versatility. Deciduous or evergreen, some cling, twine, scramble, or just lean. Whatever their method they can be trained to fit any shape or space 

Cottage Gardens

Cottage gardening is an enthusiast gardener’s delight.

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The style is timeless and suits modern houses as well as those of last century. Wide borders containing a profusion of fragrance, colour and foliage can transform a house of quite simple lines. 

Container Gardening

A few well placed pots can transform any outdoor area.

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They are the perfect solution for today’s lifestyle gardener who may not have a conventional garden, but wants to add atmosphere to a patio, deck or balcony. 

Ferns

The use of ferns for decoration dates back several centuries

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Ferns come in all shapes and sizes with a classic beauty of their own. There are the magnificent giant tree ferns, right down to the small moss like ferns found on the forest floor. Where ever they grow ferns require shade, moisture and little attention. 

Fragrant Gardens

Fragrance makes a garden romantic and memorable.

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Flowers have long been associated with a luxurious feeling of well being, such as the calming effect of lavender. Leaves too can have hidden delights. Try crushing a leaf of lemon verbena or rose-scented geranium for a rapturous experience. 

Hot & Dry Solutions

Gardening in Hot & Dry Environments

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Gardening in a hot and dry area in your garden is always a challenge. By choosing plants suited to these harsh conditions and by taking extra care at planting time, a charming, colourful effect can be achieved. Plants native to the Southern Hemisphere, the Mediterranean and South Africa, that have adapted to a shortage of water, will provide the best framework. 

Indoor Plants

Indoor Plants create a calming, relaxed atmosphere, bringing living spaces to life.

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They have another less known use as clean air machines, removing impurities from the air and replacing the impurities with oxygen. Studies by NASA show Peace Lilies and Boston Ferns are two very effective clean air machines. 

Bring Ladybugs to your Garden

Attracting ladybugs is one of the top wishes for many organic gardeners.

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Ladybugs in the gardenwill help to eliminate destructive pests like aphids, mites and scale. Getting ladybugs to come to your garden, and more importantly stay in your garden, is easy once you know a few simple facts and tricks.

Lillies

Tall and stately, Lilies add a touch of the exotic to the garden.

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From the pure white Xmas lily, to bright yellows, oranges and reds, there is a Lily colour to suit all tastes. Lilies are surprisingly easy to grow provided a few simple steps are taken. 

Improving Clay Soils

Simple Practices for Planting in clay soils

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Success with plants is assured, and relatively easy, if a few basic steps are followed. Growing plants in clay soil can be a little more difficult but these problems can be overcome in most instances by adopting simple practices set out in this brochure