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Compost Aerators, Bamboo Gloves & Tall Cloches

If you are anything like me, your compost heap is a work in progress.  It is an effort in pure do-gooder hopefulness.  Mine has been active and getting larger for probably 4 years, but since I have never turned it and I have never tried to take anything from beneath the new stuff that gets [...]

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Garden Gallery: Trailfinders Australian Garden presented by Fleming’s – Best Show – 2013 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

The medals have been posted for the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show.  There are lots of great gardens to share, but I am going to start with those that won best in show for their category. The Aussie team behind the Trailfinders Australian Garden presented by Fleming’s has been awarded Best in Show. I can only imagine [...]

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HozeLock’s Flexi Spray & the X-Hose

Between the X-Hose and the Flexi Sprayer, hand watering might just have moved into the world of modern day convenience.  If you have a big garden like I do, then you need lots of lengths of heavy hose that have surely taken out your back — or at least a plant of two as you have moved [...]

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Sneeboer’s Royal Dutch Hoe

Sneeboer makes tools that are on my personal short list of things worth spending a little more money for.   They have developed a new tool that made the Best New Product Shortlist at Chelsea.  It is designed specifically for women and it is meant to be used as you walk backwards (leaving you with [...]

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Twool Wool Garden Twine

A vote for Twool’s new line of garden twine may not be a vote for a product you are going to see on your local nursery shelves (unless you live in the UK) – but that is kind of the point.  Twool twine is local to England is made of wool from sheep in Dartmoor. [...]

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Straysparks Hand Forged Decorative Trellis

Straysparks modular trellis system, which allows you to make your own trellis configuration, has been nominated for the best the new product award a Chelsea Flower Show. The individual pieces are handforged and can be built up to create any size or shape of trellis that you and your plants might require. There are 13 [...]

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Chelsea Flower Show Week

It’s Chelsea time! I’m so excited to be pulling together a week full of coverage.  I’m not able to be there in England this year, but that isn’t going to slow the steady stream of inspiration that I plan to bring you from the show.  So fasten your seat belts and get ready, Chelsea Flower [...]

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