Amateur Gardening

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Coming up roses: The leaf buds are bursting and leaflets unfurling, so now is the time to get your roses ready for their summer show. In next week’s AG, I show you how. Cut back and compost last year’s dead perennial stems that you left in winter to

Amateur Gardening

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The paper-thin seed capsules of annual honesty are too delicate to survive throughout winter, but are worth keeping for those days early in the season when the pods are illuminated by low rays of sunshine. After flowering, both species leave behind

Horticulture

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Its beauty is found in the simplicity of its single yellow flowers and the spectacular display they create when viewed en masse. They are held in large, open sprays on a rounded, branching shrub. Named to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Annie Tempe

Amateur Gardening

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A garden that truly nourishes the soul is not all about looks – scent, sound, movement, light and texture all play a role too, and adding them to the mix will make your plot extra special. Combine touchy-feely grasses such as Stipa tenuissima with th

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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BHG SPECIAL ROSES OFFER These beautiful, large, velvety crimson blooms have the distinctive David Austin style. They have a strong old rose fragrance with fruity notes of blackberry, blueberry and damson. Grows to 1.2m. This pretty in pink David Aust

Amateur Gardening

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ON Valentine’s Day (or, indeed, any other day), there’s nothing that says ‘I love you’ quite like a rose. And if you prefer to avoid cut roses flown in from thousands of miles away that – in uncomfortable symbolism – will soon drop their petals and d

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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There are flowers, and then there are roses – their folding and unfolding petals releasing perfumes that match their beauty. Bring them indoors and create this pretty posie to fill your rooms with a sweet fragrance and your eyes with all their loveli

The English Garden

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An English climbing rose with fully double, rich pink flowers with a heavenly myrrh scent, held on nodding stems. A rich musk scent from myriad small white flowers held in large clusters on a plant that can reach an incredible 11m. An upright peren

Country Life

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THE generous arched front door, framed by Morello cherries and light skeins of pale yellow roses, will stay open this summer, just as it has done since Katherine Swift arrived at the handsome Shropshire stone Dower House 30 years ago to make a garden

Kitchen Garden

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Sally Cunningham takes a look at the best ones to grow for their sweet flavour Those who know me are well aware that I have more than an average fondness for good food. As I have often remarked, I come in the bumble-bee version, not the wasp waist. A

Backyard

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WORDS: JENNIFER STACKHOUSE Roses are usually grown for their flowers. Good gardeners regularly prune away spent rose flowers to keep the plants in bloom from spring to autumn. However, if the flowers are left on the plant, many go on to form a fruit

The English Garden

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For Michelle Thomas, her one-acre garden in rural Essex has helped her cope with serious illness. As she puts it: “Being in the garden among my roses is better than any medicine.” When she first moved here 32 years ago, the ancient cottage was in a p

Amateur Gardening

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If you’re looking to add height to a cottage gardenstyle border, look no further than the compact Verbascum chaixii with its impressive 3ft (90cm) flower spikes; ‘Album’ looks dreamy with the striped pink blooms of Rosa mundi. HxS: 3x1ft (90x30cm). A

Home

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WHO LIVES HERE? Desmond (Benk) and Philda Benkenstein, Juno the Bull Mastiff and 10 Boschveld chickens WHERE George SIZE 3 750m² TYPE OF SOIL Loam What was once part of an apple farm is now a dream garden in the heart of George. “We bought the ho

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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There’s a rose for every occasion and every garden… and there’s the dilemma. Picking a rose that suits you best out of the thousands available can be difficult. Or, you can turn the experience into a delight at Woolmers Estate in Tasmania. This rose

Woman's Day

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This tasty tuna chilli pasta is a family weeknight winner SERVES 4 Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil. Cook 400g wholemeal pasta according to packet instructions until al dente, then drain. Meanwhile, heat 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil in

Amateur Gardening

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White or cream Pure white, almost fully-double flowers – with a rich Old Rose fragrance–open from slightly blushed buds set against rich, dark foliage. Very long flowering and with fiery autumn foliage colour. H: 5ft (1½m). Also try: ‘Desdemona’ (Eng

Chicago Tribune

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Several years ago, the sky ablaze with early-evening sunlight, a formidable selection of rose bottles in front of me, I thought, "Maybe this time it's for real." That summer event was designed to promote rose drinking, to impress upon people that the

BBC Gardeners' World

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August can be a disappointing time in gardens – borders can be a little frazzled and faded. All too easily, it becomes an underwhelming lull between the high drama and flowering bounty of July, and the onset of early autumn’s mellowing. But it doesn’

WHO

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The rosé trend has been gaining traction for approximately five years. So, as our loyalty to the pink wine is unwavering, is it fair to still call it a trend? I think the time for that has definitely passed! Like everything else, wines and cockta

Amateur Gardening

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THE Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf wrote that a plant is only worth growing if it looks good when it is dead. Behind his hyperbole is the truth that what remains of many herbaceous plants, particularly their seedheads, can be captivating and will

Denver Life Magazine

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Look for these water-loving plants at the base of shallow water. Every part of this plant is safe for consumption—you can even make bread from grinding the roots into flour. A common ingredient found in tea and wine, rose hips are the fruit of the wi

Harrowsmith

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When it comes to perennials, roses are the workhorse of the garden. Not only do they add beauty, form and structure, but they also provide us with high-value nutrition, and they are tough! There is a rose for every garden and every gardener—you just

Better Homes and Gardens Australia

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Garden Editor Lift the colour in your world. As the flowers fade, you’ve always got the stunning leaves of begonia rex. If you’re lucky, your ixora will flower all year. Otherwise, grow it indoors. Your ginkgo leaves will start turning a beautiful bu

Singapore Tatler

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The late Christian Dior once said: “After women, flowers are the most divine creatures.” This illustrates the affection the couturier has for flowers, which Dior environmental and scientific communication director Edouard Mauvais-Jarvis confirms are

Home

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Linda van Schalkwyk of Benoni writes A friend told me that she finger-prunes her ‘Garden Queen’ roses. I have not heard that term before. What is the benefit of it? Ludwig replies Finger-pruning is when we use our fingers to snap or pinch off a thi

Amateur Gardening

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Catmint’s low-mounding habit is great for disguising any unattractive stems at the base of your roses. This compact variety will flower again if clipped back after the first flush of blooms in June. HxS: 2ftx20in (60x50cm). Short on border space? Try

Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom

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We have many of these in our own garden and use them regularly in arrangements – often just two or three blooms with a few other flowers, or one or a few blooms floating in water. And what can be more romantic than a single fragrant rose on the bedsi

Amateur Gardening

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IT’S been a pretty wet and miserable winter so far here in the south, but that’s no excuse for continually ignoring those nagging jobs that keep being postponed. We have a narrow border that contains two roses, a climber and a shrub. They are slightl

Home

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Every year, Ludwig’s Roses honours a South African by naming a rose after them. This year, in response to many requests, a rose has been named after the fearless former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela. The rose will be launched at the opening of th