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Pat Duke: Why I’ve distanced myself from shrubs

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Pat Duke: Why I’ve distanced myself from shrubs

For many gardeners, particularly those of a certain age, there is a tendency to obsess about a particular genre which can lead to them disappearing down a horticultural rabbit hole never to be seen again. I’ve been very wary of falling into this ...

06 Sept 2023 at 11:02

Gardening with Pat Duke - time to love those Dahlias

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Gardening with Pat Duke - time to love those Dahlias

In the Garden The drought-like conditions are quickly dehydrating plants, particularly grasses if they haven't had much water. This can lead to the flower patch looking sorry for itself with straw replacing flower stems. With all that in mind ...

14 Jul 2023 at 07:00

Pat Duke: With our special climate you need to plan ahead

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Pat Duke: With our special climate you need to plan ahead

In the Garden There isn’t a gardener alive who can comfortably say their garden is finished. Part of the allure of gardening is straddling the swirling changes where one set of conditions discreetly mushrooms into another. Our unique climate ...

23 Jul 2023 at 13:00

Pat Duke: Gardening is all about relaxing as well as producing

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Pat Duke: Gardening is all about relaxing as well as producing

If you have the time it can pay dividends in terms of petals if you can be fastidious about dead heading when blooms have gone over. Pretty soon you'll be festooned with dahlias and cosmos leaning and billowing in all directions. Stake them ...

31 Jul 2023 at 13:00

It’s Battle of Blueberries with the birds time

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It’s Battle of Blueberries with the birds time

In the Garden The recent showers have had the blackbirds scurrying across our lawns like extras in a Marx Brothers film on fast forward. They love collecting whatever they can, so are a reminder that apart from disrupting the dreaded weeds,...

21 Aug 2023 at 11:00

Gardening: Time to take advantage of sowing window before it closes

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Gardening: Time to take advantage of sowing window before it closes

The recent deluges over the weekend might have led to the hose pipe ban being lifted or morphing recycling boxes into pelagic containers floating aimlessly along our A roads. What all this means for the garden is usually good news and ...

26 Sept 2023 at 13:02

Gardening: Every cloud has some silver foliage

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Gardening: Every cloud has some silver foliage

Behind every cloud there really can be silver foliage. August always flatters to deceive and catches me every year watching it batter the windows with rain whilst packing for a week away. One of the biggest headaches of going away is ...

16 Aug 2023 at 07:00

Pat Duke: Forget the rain and seize the moment to plan your planting

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Pat Duke: Forget the rain and seize the moment to plan your planting

In the Garden If you meet another gardener at the moment all the talk is of the unprecedented amount of rain we’ve had and how the best gardening accessory might be a snorkel. Whilst were pacing up and down the kitchen looking ...

14 Apr 2024 at 10:00

Make your garden yours - like the colour of your favourite football team?

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Make your garden yours - like the colour of your favourite football team?

Nature will decide that for us, so until that’s clear I will be carrying on like summer has yet to give way. At this time of year our gardens can look like paradise, the accurate description of ‘a green place.’ Flowers have ...

09 Sept 2023 at 13:00

Thanks, Edward, for your all-year round wallflower

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Thanks, Edward, for your all-year round wallflower

In the Garden There are two type of gardener at this time of year, those who clear everything from the beds and those who desperately cling on to summer colour by leaving the clearing up until only the last petal has ...

10 Oct 2023 at 17:03

Light relief: It's time to enjoy the perfect antidote to modern life

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Light relief: It's time to enjoy the perfect antidote to modern life

In the Garden Now the clocks have changed, we’ve got our evenings back to potter in the garden or stride optimistically down to the allotment after work. As gardening is the antidote to modern life, the equinox is ...

07 Apr 2024 at 14:30

In the Garden with Pat Duke

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In the Garden with Pat Duke

Meteorologically springtime has arrived but, as is nature's way it has reminded us who is in charge with several sharp frosts. This makes a mockery of all the summer bulb stands in garden centres recklessly ...

10 Mar 2024 at 12:00

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