BLUEBELL WALKS AT RODE HALL

BLUEBELL WALKS AT RODE HALL

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Experience one of the finest Bluebell Walks in the North West at Rode Hall and Gardens in Cheshire New for 2016, visitors can enjoy Rode’s carpets of ancient bluebells even more extensively due to the recent discovery and restoration of an old path through the Old Wood, previously used by villagers walking to the House in the 1800s. A magical stroll…
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Carbon gold studies show enriched biochar suppresses ash dieback

Carbon gold studies show enriched biochar suppresses ash dieback

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Tree care products produced by Carbon Gold have been found to suppress ash dieback in a recent study featured on the BBC’s Countryfile. The research featured on the BBC’s best-loved programme reveals that ash dieback could be more effectively managed and the spread of the disease slowed and potentially halted using Carbon Gold’s biochar-based Tree Soil Improver. The study was…
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Garden Re-Leaf Day

Garden Re-Leaf Day

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Greenfingers Charity has designated Friday, March 18 March as Garden Re-Leaf day. On that day and during the weekend that follows garden centres and garden retailers around the country will be showing off the best of their plants and gardening aids to raise money for Greenfingers Charity that builds recreational and therapy gardens in the grounds of children’s hospices around…
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National Trust puts cider apples at its core

National Trust puts cider apples at its core

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An important collection of cider apples, with almost 300 varieties, has been given to the National Trust to help secure its future… Slack-ma-Girdle, Netherton Late Blower and Billy Down Pippin are just three of the apple varieties in the ‘National cider apple’ collection established over the course of more than 25 years by collector and donor Henry May. A process…
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mudandgluts - first post of 2016

mudandgluts – first post of 2016

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So here we go again, another shiny new year! To mark the occasion my propagator is back on the kitchen windowsill from its short holiday under the bed, stuffed with onions, cerinthe and a third of my sweet peas. Unfortunately my Long Red Florence shallot seeds are lost in the wilderness that is my flat. Once it’s been de-Christmassed I…
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