How to Create Attractive Beds Borders DVD

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This How To Create Attractive Beds & Borders DVD takes you through all activities required to create and maintain attractive borders and beds from preparation soils and fertilisers choice and arrangement of plants as well as care and maintenance. It also offers tips on how to counteract many of the common problems encountered including weed control mulching dead heading and end of season treatment. Running time 60 minutes.

How To Grow Plants in Containers DVD

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Container Gardening is one of the fastest growing and popular sectors of horticulture as by its very nature it's open to all. How To Grow Plants in Containers explores the range of options available to the container gardener from the tiniest alpine shrubs and even trees together with a broad selection of fruit vegetables and herbs. No matter what size the garden balcony or window this DVD demonstrates the range of possibilities available covering choice of container watering and fertilising issues holiday and seasonal maintentance as well as plant selection along with how and where to buy or propagate. Running time 60 minutes.

How To Grow Vegetables DVD

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How To Grow Vegetables contains essential information for both the novice and experienced gardener. Covering growing methods for a wide range of crops the DVD also addresses subjects such as site selection dealing with pests and disease frost pockets and soil temperatures. Taking the organic route widely regarded as the future for gardening it also looks at how to achieve the most energy efficient and sustainable management of vegetable gardening through fertilisation and crop rotation. Running time 60 mins

How To Grow Fruit DVD

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The How To Grow Fruit DVD covers essential information for those wanting to explore the delights and reap the rewards from growing fruit. Covering a wide variety of fruits from apples and pears to soft fruits including strawberries and raspberries and exciting exotics such as kiwi fruit or medlars the DVD provides the viewer with the detailed information necessary to produce a fruitful harvest!Full cultivation details are covered in depth successful planting in containers dealing with tougher climates disease control rootstocks and soil choice as well as how to effectively use organic methods. Running time 60 mins

How To Propagate DVD

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The How To Propagate follows the top gardeners working in some of the UK's finest gardens and learns the skills behind the propagation of plants for these gardens from the basic first steps to more advanced technical skills. Propagation can for many seem a daunting task and this DVD gives expert advice on all major aspects of propagation from seed sowing to planting cuttings grafting as well as basic and advanced propagation skills. Running time 60 mins.

Top Tips for Spring Summer DVD

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Filmed at some of the UK's finest gardens Top Tips for Spring & Summer is bursting with colour provided by the plants on show as it takes you through the most beautiful herbaceous borders and rose gardens. The DVD also offers advice on a whole range of critical topics and planting techniques including drift planting colour combinations and companion planting as well as special tips for getting more out of your garden during the two key seasons. A great gift for any new or proficient gardener. Running time 50 mins

Top Tips for Gardening During a Water Shortage DVD

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Developed during the hosepipe bans that have been in force across parts of England which are likely to remain a feature of British gardening this DVD deals with the issues involved in working the garden during drought conditions. The main focus is on water conservation and the preservation of plants and lawns with step-by-step advice and tips on how to achieve this. There is also information on other plants more suited to drier conditions including alpine evergreens and those from the Mediterranean. With innovative 'water-wise' techniques this DVD covers a variety of methods of storing excess water as well as measures to help conserve water in the soil and may potentially change not only how you manage your garden but how you approach water conservation as a whole. Running time 50 mins.

Top Tips on Traditional Gardening Techniques DVD

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This DVD represents a great opportunity to find out more about the techniques used by some of the UKs finest gardeners.

Find out what makes them tick and how they keep their gardens up to the highest possible standards. Many have come up through the ranks and are career gardeners with a deep well of horticultural knowledge. The DVD explores the traditional methods of UK Gardening and uncovers some fascinating horticultural secrets that we will be able to apply to our own gardens.

The DVD covers the following areas: Propagation Cultivation Planting PruningPacked with extra features the DVD also includes simple menu driven navigation to get you straight into the aspects of gardening relevant to your own projects. Also included are a Top Ten Tips feature and also resources to help with plant picking and where to find them. Approx runtime: 60 mins.

The Secrets Behind England`s Finest Gardens (4 DVD box set)

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The Secrets behind England's Finest Gardens not only captures the beauty of these gardens this DVD also takes you behind the scenes with Tom Petherick and the head gardeners who explain some of their techniques to get the best out of the plants. The collection is the ideal gardening companion giving real practical advice hints and tips that you can use in your own garden. It covers four main gardens: The Lost Gardens of Heligan The Abbey Gardens of Tresco The gardens at Newby Hall and The Duchess of Northumberland's garden at Alnwick. Perfect for those who love their gardening but cannot necessarily get to visit these beautiful gardens. Each DVD has a running time of 70 minutes each.

The National Trust

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Filmed over the course of a year this DVD covers four stunning National Trust Gardens throughout the UK. Each garden has a widely differing range of horticultural styles and periods of gardening history.

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Sissinghurst Castle Gardens DVD

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Sissinghurst Castle has been cared for by the Trust since 1967 having been originally created in 1930 by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. The DVD takes us on a tour through the gates of the Castle into the courtyard. Climbing roses and trained shrubs adorn the walls and wherever you look behind every hedge or along side each wall there are plants that intrigue and surprise. From the wonderful collection of old fashioned roses and herbaceous perennials to the nut walk and the white garden Sissinghurst is as influential as it has ever been and an inspiration at any time of the year.
Running time 70 mins

The Gardening Secrets Of Heligan Revealed DVD

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Tom Petherick led the team on the ground from the start of the award-winning restoration of the highly productive gardens at Heligan. The team experimented with traditional horticultural processes until successful cropping was achieved

The Abbey Garden Tresco Isle Of Scilly DVD

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The Abbey Garden on Tresco Isle Of Scilly lies 26 miles to the west of the Cornish Coast was established in 1834 and has been lovingly maintained by five generations of the Dorrien-Smith family ever since. Benefiting from its position in the Gulf Stream the island of Tresco could easily belong in the Caribbean. This is reflected in the exotic range of plants hosted by the Abbey Garden: Lampranthus cling to crevices in walls and aeoniums from the Canary Isles jut out at impossible angles from what seem like sheer rock faces. Around every corner appear spiky aloes and enormous agaves - it is magnificent and surreal. This DVD provides an ideal taster of the gardens before a visit or for those unable to make it to this remote and unusual place. Running time 70 mins

Unbleached Garden Tools Apron

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Protect your clothes with this 100% unbleached cotton drill Potting Apron. Printed in earth-friendly water based inks the image can be ironed over without fear of spoiling. It features a handy large double pocket across the waist and a picture of garden tools on the bib. One size fits all.

Gardeners Fleece Hat Black

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Keep your head warm while you're in the garden or out walking this winter with our Black Gardeners Fleece Hat. These hats are ideal whilst out doing those little jobs on a cold winters day.

Choice of small gardening caption on the front: Sod the Garden Head Gardener Her Ladyship His Lordship Hardy Perennial Old Gardener Reluctant Gardener Lawnmower Operator Worlds Best Gardener. One size.

Also Available in green on product code DD3199D

Gardeners Fleece Hat Green

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Keep your head warm while you're in the garden or out walking this winter with our Green Gardeners Fleece Hat. Available in green or black these hats are ideal whilst out doing those little jobs on a cold winters day.

Choice of small gardening caption on the front: Sod the Garden Head Gardener Her Ladyship His Lordship Hardy Perennial Old Gardener Reluctant Gardener Lawnmower Operator Worlds Best Gardener. One size.

Gardeners White Bucket Hat

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Protect your head from the sun with our 100% cotton Gardeners Bucket Hat. This white hat with dark blue trim comes with a choice of captions on the front.

Choose from the following: Head Gardener His Lordship Her Ladyship Hardy Perennial Lawnmower Operator Sod the Garden Reluctant Gardener. One size - 59-60cm.

Latin Potting Apron Green

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Add some humour to the garden and keep your clothes clean with our 100% cotton drill green aprons. Each has a pseudo latin caption underneath the heading describing the type of Gardener.

Fitted with a double pocket across waist for those bits and pieces the apron is also printed in earth-friendly water based inks. Please note that the image can be ironed over without fear of spoiling.

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How To Encourage Wildlife in the Garden DVD

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Encouraging wildlife into your garden can help in maintaining the active cycle of nature. The garden can be a habitat for a whole host of different creatures from large animals to small insects and birds. This DVD gives you tips on how to keep wildlife in your garden how to discourage more negative visitors and how welcoming wildlife into the garden can be beneficial to humans plants and wildlife alike. Running time 60 mins

How to Garden Organically DVD

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Using good quality products free from pesticides and chemicals which may harm the garden wildlife and environment helps you to do your bit and this DVD allows you to do just that.

This lovely picturesque DVD is filmed in gardens all over the UK presented by Tom Petherick (a passionate and experienced gardener in his own right) the DVD explores every aspect of organic gardening from the soil treatment and fertilisation right up to dealing with pest control disease and weeds.

Other areas covered in the DVD include composts and composting propagation planting and maintenance companion planting hygiene and conservation. Running time 60 minutes.