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Amenity: Keeping up standards

Lottery-funded parks have to ensure continuing maintenance standards. But will tighter budgets put these in jeopardy?

Historic and Botanic Gardens: Bringing history to life

Kenilworth Castle's Elizabethan Garden reveals what a sophisticated discipline garden history has become

Amenity: Keeping dogs under control

How should parks managers deal with the growing number of problem dogs?

Making room to grow

How should councils respond to the huge rise in demand for allotments?

Garden of knowledge

The new University of Bristol Botanic Garden creates learning opportunities at every turn, discovers Gavin McEwan.

Landscape planting to combat pests and diseases

With chemical controls being restricted, it is increasingly important to source plants bred for pest and disease resistance, says Kris...

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Events

Spring into action

  • 18 March 2010|Bishop's Stortford Bowling Club, Bowling Lane off Beldams Lane, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 5FE
  • Sisis Equipment (Macclesfield) Ltd

Creative use of plants with Christine Walkden

  • 20-21 March 2010|Writtle College, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR
  • Writtle College

Pruning Your Shrubs (Spring)

  • 20 March 2010|Writtle College, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3RR
  • Writtle College

RHS London Orchid and Botanical Art show 2010

  • 20-21 March 2010|

    RHS Halls, Lawrence Hall, Greycoat Street, London, SW1P 2QD

     

  • The Royal Horticultural Society

Weekend Gardener: Vegetable gardening

  • 20 March 2010|Brinsbury Campus
    North Heath
    Pulborough
    West Sussex
    RH20 1DL
  • Chichester College

Plant Focus

Ornamental Malus

Although famous for their blossom, crab apples offer other seasonal interest too.

Erysimum

Wallflowers are a harbinger of spring and provide a familiar sweet scent, says Miranda Kimberley.

Shrubby Lonicera

There are honeysuckles for winter fragrance no matter how cold it gets, says Miranda Kimberley.

Potatoes

No grow-your-own offer is complete without spuds and the range is inspiring, says Miranda Kimberley.

Chimonanthus, Calycanthus and Sinocalycanthus

These exotic shrubs provide seasonal fragrance as well as unusual blooms, says Miranda Kimberley.

Test Reports

Echo HCA-265ES

"Don't like it at all," declares Alscot Park gardener David Williams, rejecting the Echo HCA-265ES. "It doesn't seem to be...

 
 

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Matthew Appleby

 1. Good to see the Daily Telegraph gardening section plugging the biggest new garden centre to open this year. I...

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Nocton Dairy Consortium

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Food security brings pressure for action

News that University of Warwick bosses have been "summoned" to a meeting with environment secretary Hilary Benn - as the...

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