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The growing season is over – time for your garden to rest and you to reflect

For those of us in the northern hemisphere winter has arrived. And perhaps more importantly for the plant world, we are also entering into our Persephone Days. This phrase (named after the...
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Want a tree for the garden? Ask yourself these questions first

Part of gardening’s beauty is the ephemerality of it: taking care of a plot can encourage a rich...
Gardening advice

Plant a new flowerbed now and everything will look rosy by spring

Something about this time of year makes me yearn to cut in a new flowerbed and fill it...
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Garden centre chain Dobbies to shut 17 stores as part of restructuring plan

Dobbies is planning to shut 17 of its 77 stores, affecting 465 jobs, as its new owners try...
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I love gazing at my garden as summer melds into autumn. Then I start to plan

Can you feel it? The shift? Sunday is the autumn equinox, when night and day will be almost exactly...

And so farewell, it’s time to say goodbye to my gardening column

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So here, my final Observer column. Plot 29 has reached its autumn. Maybe me, too. I stepped away from the Observer on Friday 13. Twenty-five...

10 of the best gardens to visit around the UK

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Great DixterNorthiam, Rye, East Sussex Created by the late Christopher Lloyd, Great Dixter is the legacy of a garden designer who forced us to...

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