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Flowers

Flowers were first recorded as being used in food in 140 BC, many different cultures since incorporated them into everyday foods. Check out The top 5 tastiest flowers.

Spectacular Giant Lily Blooms at the Himalayan Gardens

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Alongside more than 80 contemporary sculptures, the Himalayan Gardens and Sculpture Park showcase nature’s own masterpieces. Now is the time to see the spectacular giant Himalayan Lily (Cardiocrinum giganteum), which is currently in full bloom. To celebrate being open and with this weekend being Father’s Day, the Gardens in Grewelthorpe near Ripon have partnered with Toast of Harrogate, so visitors…
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‘Grow to give’ flower project

‘Grow to give’ flower project

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A bestselling author who struggled with severe anxiety for more than 20 years is launching a national ‘let’s grow together’ campaign  Nicola Bird, 48, from Chobham, Surrey, believes The Floral Project (Thefloralproject.co.uk) will help parents encourage their children to spend less time on their devices and more time in the garden, planting and growing flowers. The aim is that the…
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Snowdrop Festival brings first signs of Spring

Snowdrop Festival brings first signs of Spring

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On a wintry day there is nothing better than visiting a garden teeming with one of the earliest flowering plants of the year The National Garden Scheme’s fourth annual Snowdrop Festival brings the first signs of Spring to everyone with over 92 snowdrop gardens open across England and Wales. Whether you enjoy carpets of naturalised white in woodlands, meticulously grown…
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Plants and bees – a 100 million-year-old love affair…

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All gardeners love and appreciate the flowers in their gardens… …but few realise that almost all plants, shrubs and trees, are entirely dependent on pollinating insects for their ability to reproduce and thrive. In fact, plants evolved flowers purely as a means of attracting pollinating insects, offering food for them in the form of carb-rich nectar for energy, and pollen…
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Heatwave brings bumper year for British flowers

Heatwave brings bumper year for British flowers

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While arable vegetable crops are struggling in the heat, this summer’s heatwave has helped the British flower industry to blossom The Great British Florist has seen its cutting patch and wild meadows produce a bumper crop of flowers, thanks to glorious sunshine and the absence of the torrential downpours and wind which have been typical of July in recent years.…
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Gardeners ID best plants for bees

Gardeners ID best plants for bees

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The three flowers most visited by bees are viper’s bugloss, teasel and toadflax, according to gardeners using the new Blooms for Bees app The app, created by scientists from Coventry University, is the only bumblebee-surveying app to record the flower being foraged as well as the insect. The app, developed by scientists at the university’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and…
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Good enough to eat!

Good enough to eat!

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As the Chelsea Flower Show gets under way, we reveal one of the top trends from members of the Society of Garden Designers – edible gardens. Evident in gardens large and small this year is a trend for incorporating edibles into floral displays. Tom Massey uses herbs, cleverly displayed on a planted-up building block wall, and exotic fruit trees –…
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Creating a force for good

Creating a force for good

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Horticulture college and military veterans join forces to create an award-winning Chelsea Flower Show exhibit. Sparsholt College continues its RHS Chelsea Flower Show medal-winning run with news of a Gold medal and Best Discovery Exhibit at this year’s show. The college and its 2018 partner Help for Heroes’ The Force for Good garden was designed and created by horticulture students…
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