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Many of the BBC's factual websites will be changing over the next twelve months. Exciting changes are planned but in the short term, it means that we will no longer be updating some of our exis...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2012/04/changes-to-the-bbc-gardening-w.shtml

The Gardening Blog team are taking a short break for a few weeks, but we'll be back later in January. In the meantime, have a very Happy New Year and we wish you all the best for 2012!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/12/happy-new-year.shtml

‘The holly and the ivy When they are both full-grown Of all the trees that are in the wood The holly bears the crown’   What would Christmas be without holly? Its red berries bedeck our ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/12/tis-the-season-to-be-holly.shtml

Prunus x subhirtella 'Fukubana' If you thought there wasn't much to look at outside at this time of year - think again. Dozens of beautiful trees and shrubs are at their colourful best in Decem...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/12/winter-flowering-trees-and-shr.shtml

No other part of fruit growing creates more uncertainty and confusion than pruning . Terminology such as renewal pruning, replacement pruning, tip bearers, spur bearers, fruit buds and growth b...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/12/pruning.shtml

It's easy to buy a plant for a gardener at Christmas, isn't it? You just pop into a garden centre and buy a bright poinsettia or, if you're really pushing the boat out, a pure white orchid tied...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/12/all-i-want-for-christmas.shtml

The poinsettia could have been specially designed for Christmas with its bright-red halo and festive green foliage. However that red halo is not just a pretty face: it's the secret of the poinse...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/12/poinsettias-for-christmas.shtml

Right, before you read on I'd like you to walk to a window and take a look at your garden. So, what's it look like? Colourful? Full of interest? My garden is neither of these things right now, an...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/12/designing-a-winter-garden.shtml

Decorating Christmas trees is so last year. This weekend, it's all about sprucing up your local spruce (or oak , or beech , or ash ). Tree Dressing (Photo: Weald & Downland Open Air Museum) ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/12/tree-dressing.shtml

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the Poinsettia ! At least, that's what many of our customers tell us after visiting our annual Poinsettia Walks, now approaching their 15th year. The poi...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/11/poinsettias.shtml

Christmas has arrived again already at Cotehele , and the gardeners are busy putting together our Christmas decorations and really putting the 'd' in decoration! "Last year's garland suspended ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/11/dried-flowers-for-christmas.shtml

If you work any kind of regular hours, it is easy to feel disconnected from your garden. It has its finest moments when you are stuck in the office. Your flowers are blooming away while you play ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/11/night-gardening.shtml

I once had to sit in a yew tree with a smoke machine and press a button at the required moment so that a great bellow of smoke would appear. It was a pretty awful job, as more smoke seemed to co...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/11/biodegradable-decorations.shtml

On a cold, frosty morning like today the idea of diving into a cold garden pond for a swim isn't my idea of fun. But these natural swimming ponds are becoming quite popular as people like the id...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/11/natural-swimming-ponds.shtml

Water hyacinth Baby blue flowers rising from gloriously glossy, luxuriously generous leaves make water hyacinth s among the most beautiful of all the pond plants you can grow. If you've got ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gardening/2011/11/a-drop-of-exotica-water-hyacin.shtml