Colonial gardeners also used cloches, or bell glasses, to nurture fragile seedlings and extend the growing season. |
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Most gardeners propagate sagos from offsets from the mother plant, but you can sow fertilized seeds. |
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This will be a unique opportunity for keen gardeners to buy rare and unusual plants, many of which are not obtainable from local garden centres. |
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By all accounts it was the usual huge success, with keen gardeners coming from all around to stock up on plants and gardening paraphernalia. |
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Compact, folding pruning saws have been used by gardeners, viniculturists, and foresters for generations. |
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Here's one for luck, a deadly nicotine tea used for the mass destruction of aphids by guerrilla gardeners. |
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Poppies have long been a favorite of gardeners for planting in rock gardens and for brightening up splashy borders. |
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If we are not to use man-made poisons, the answer favoured by progressive gardeners is some kind of natural remedy. |
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The Australian native bushland is full of treasures just waiting to be discovered by keen gardeners. |
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Allotment gardeners who won their fight to keep their rented plots may now bid to buy them outright. |
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All gardeners should have some quiet time in their horticultural diaries to give them space to reflect. |
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Pansies were originally hybridized in Europe in the 19th century, and quickly became a very desirable cultivar for gardeners everywhere. |
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Indoor gardeners, by and large, prefer their hyacinths full-blossomed and deliciously fragrant. |
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The number of women employing au pairs, window cleaners and gardeners has increased by only 7.9 per cent in the past five years. |
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When trains swoosh by, they temporarily drown out the birds and force gardeners to either stop talking or yell to be heard above the din. |
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He advises gardeners to place their butterfly boxes about four feet above ground and making sure they have a southern exposure in the wintertime. |
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Of those fifteen per cent who did have some experience many had only worked as farm labourers, gardeners, station hands, dairymen or bushmen. |
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Among the classically inspired statuary, saints, such as St. Fiacre, the patron saint of gardeners, are popular, Galvan says. |
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Everything was blooming and many local handymen, gardeners and maids were on the road. |
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Proud gardeners are opening the gates to their horticultural haven to raise funds for the orchestra. |
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Wise gardeners know how to plant a yard to attract birds, and Polshek has interpreted the new entrance so that it captivates people. |
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Many gardeners find that the most efficient tool for this task is some type of scuffle hoe, which cuts weeds at or just below the soil surface. |
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Mention the names carnation, pinks or sweet William and most gardeners will immediately recognize the family of plants. |
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For home gardeners, the best news is broccoli is one of the easiest crops to grow. |
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As well as financial contributions, the group is urging volunteer gardeners to come forward or offer donations of gardening tools and equipment. |
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This popularity not only confers celebrity status on gardeners but shows the garden owner as a person of refined taste, the minister said. |
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He is dedicated to organic growing principles and supplying gardeners with great heirloom vegetable varieties. |
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He urged gardeners to avoid the use of exotic plants and not to plant alien flowers out in the wild or along hedgerows. |
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The agreement covers staff working in various roles such as orderlies, patient care assistants, kitchen staff, catering attendants and gardeners. |
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Finding something out of the ordinary for gardeners can be tricky and some themes crop up again and again this Christmas. |
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So great was the attention to detail that gardeners at Kimber clipped hedges with nail scissors. |
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The men worked as market gardeners, carpenters, laundrymen, and in small business. |
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Kitchen gardeners are very often thought of as stuffy people, patiently planting seeds into precise rows and endlessly digging. |
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Most were employed by the Indonesian Embassy in Bangkok as chauffeurs and gardeners. |
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German homeowners and gardeners who attempt to destroy an ant hill or subterranean nest will be subject to hefty fines if caught. |
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They help to repel leaf miner moths and some gardeners even find them effective against grasshoppers. |
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Most gardeners begin their foray into container gardening with baskets and boxes of colorful annual flowers. |
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If we choose fresh, organic, locally grown crops we are supporting gardeners and farmers who choose to maintain our right to good food. |
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The popular publications hold much interest for biologists, dendrologists, foresters, gardeners, tree lovers, and students. |
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The problem is that the gardeners have been caught on the gnomon of their own sundial. |
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I spotted movement in the grass, looked down and there was the bane of gardeners and groundsmen everywhere, a mole. |
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Southern gardeners can only plant garlic if they know the temperature will dip low enough. |
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Let's face it, passing the shears to gardeners convinced they see a shape within a tree or shrub is asking for trouble. |
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It is recommended that gardeners use transplants rather than seeds for growing bluebonnets and other species of hybrid lupines in their gardens. |
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Other gardeners prefer to interplant them with spring flowers such as columbines, daisies, dianthus, Iceland poppies, lupines, and peonies. |
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He believes colour and convenience are the main attractions for beginner or novice gardeners buying plants. |
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Keen gardeners here on the West Coast often mark Valentine's Day, February 14th, as a day for planting garden peas. |
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Some gardeners swear that coffee grounds will even keep slugs away from ultra-vulnerable hosta plants. |
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Keen gardeners tell me that there is nothing that can compare with harvesting your own vegetables. |
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Resourceful gardeners can combine a few discarded window sashes and bales of straw to create a simple makeshift cold frame. |
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Some gardeners like the idea of serving fresh garden tomatoes for Thanksgiving dinner. |
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Garlic has grown in its appeal to market gardeners for a whole host of reasons. |
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Pensioners can have a cup of tea and a biscuit for 5p and all the gardeners roll up to dunk their digestives in the afternoon sunshine. |
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Among the most dedicated of gardeners, different manures were, and are, preferred for particular crops. |
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Evading the efforts of Jack Frost for as long as possible is a goal for many gardeners. Here are some tricks on how to do just that. |
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Home gardeners can log onto the site to find the perfect accent for s shady path or sunny flower bed. |
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Root suckers can be a nuisance, but most gardeners consider them a minor one. |
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In the late 1800s, gardeners at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park introduced European beach grass to the West Coast. |
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At the same time, a range of new labour-saving devices are going on sale to time-poor gardeners. |
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Organisers hope green-fingered gardeners will be hard at work to ensure that come July, the borough is blooming. |
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They took jobs with low pay and little advancement potential, working as busboys, waiters, gardeners, janitors, and domestic help in cities. |
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We're both obscurely addicted to odd sports, both had empires, are bellicose, mistrustful of foreigners, and are passionate gardeners. |
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Others were seamstresses, barkeeps, gardeners, washerwomen, and confectioners. |
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Now that the weather is encouraging gardeners to get out and start cutting and digging, hedgehogs are in danger. |
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But natural gardeners welcome such beneficials as ladybugs, lacewings and syrphids in their garden because they love to feast on aphids. |
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Outdoors, we've got flying gardeners, city gardeners, gay gardeners in touring cars, and makeover gardeners with burbling water features. |
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But Phil and his team will bring the plants back to sell to eager Swindon gardeners. |
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The service ranges from sourcing reliable cleaners, gardeners or plumbers to helping with house moves or booking a holiday. |
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Fabulous bright colors of red, pink, white, and purple, along with many bicolored varieties are some popular color choices of gardeners. |
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Border carnations are those varieties typically grown outdoors by gardeners either as perennials, biennials, or annuals. |
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The HDRA is running an autumn campaign to encourage gardeners to make leafmould instead of burning or binning their garden leaves. |
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Digging tools like rakes, shovels, pitch forks and spade are some of the basic tools used by professional gardeners as well as beginners. |
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I'd recommend it to novice gardeners because it is a real trouper of a plant. |
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Chemical gardeners would use fungicides and try and deal with the symptoms but I tend to see it as part of the landscape. |
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I spoke to a couple of ace gardeners recently in a mad bid to investigate the best native plants for my downtown rental cottage. |
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Persimmon is a decorative fruit tree that is undervalued and often overlooked by gardeners. |
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This sprouting activity is also a sign for gardeners to start getting busy. |
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As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails sport a soft and slimy foot. |
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This is often due to the scarcity of skilled builders, craftsmen and gardeners. |
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What most gardeners call thrips are the larvae of a flying insect entomologists group in the suborder Terebrantia. |
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Lindsay also writes several dramatic monologues for cab drivers, gardeners, or barely disguised versions of his working self. |
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Many Dutch gardeners like to force successive flowerings of hyacinths indoors in flowerpots. |
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If the butterfly can fly free with its wings of iridescent color, gardeners should be allowed to do the same. |
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Many gardeners enjoy planting violas in windowboxes, cedar deck planters, wooden half barrels, and a host of other containers. |
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Some gardeners prune plumerias just before moving them into winter storage. |
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We talked to one of the gardeners and admired the fruit, vegetables and, of course, the flowers. |
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Avid horseback riders and gardeners, the couple also needed a first-floor mudroom and bath where they could clean up after a day spent outdoors. |
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Many gardeners prefer to mulch the beds with peat moss or grass clippings and do away with cultivating. |
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Some home composters sell their finished compost to local nurseries or other family gardeners. |
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The idea is that gardeners will deliver extra plants, slips, seeds and seedlings to the Horticultural Training Centre at Zoo Lake. |
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There's been a reawakening of interest in heirloom melons among home gardeners. |
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There are a group of community gardeners who come along once a month to help out and volunteer their time. |
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Even gardeners are told when their tender perennials are at risk from frost. |
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Most gardeners buy dormant tubers, which are easier to grow than seed and less expensive than blooming plants. |
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Suddenly the gardeners spot the Queen across the garden and they throw themselves flat on the ground. |
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However, for gardeners who prefer rather more order in their garden, this type of cotoneaster is perfect for training into a neat fan shape. |
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There are some hardy perennial plants that we, as gardeners, simply must have. |
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The diversities of their colors, textures, and shapes offer gardeners a wonderful opportunity to be creative. |
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His staff includes three butlers, four valets, four chefs, 10 gardeners, and more. |
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More experienced gardeners may have success raising seeds of Camellia sasanqua, clivias, crepe myrtle, fuchsia, Murraya paniculata, roses and stephanotis. |
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When the city was built, there were clearly demarcated areas for doctors, gardeners, washermen and barbers called Baidwara, Maliwara, Dhobiwara and Naiwara respectively. |
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And, fortunately for gardeners, there are many other ornamental climbers that are not quite as rampant but produce a good display throughout the year. |
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Of the 38 deer species worldwide, the whitetail in the East and mule deer in the West are the two that cause the most problems for American gardeners. |
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Hamish and his wife, Lesley, were expert fly fishers and keen gardeners. |
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The gardeners plant a good mix of vegetables, including cucumbers, snap beans, leaf lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kohlrabi, Swiss chard, beets, onions and more. |
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Growing annuals from seed offers the chance to grow something different every year and the gardeners at Greenbank seize the opportunity wholeheartedly. |
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The main culprits for the release of invasive plants are actually aquarists and gardeners who unwittingly dump excess quantities of problem species into the countryside. |
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The couple, who are retired florists and market gardeners, use the greenhouse to grow plants for an annual garden party to raise money for a donkey sanctuary in Devon. |
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The gardeners were busy with the flower beds around the fountain, and the freshly turned earth smelled sweet and spicy. |
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The stoppage was observed by 140 union members, according to the Daily Telegraph including gardeners, waiters, cooks and valets. |
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Though color gets top billing, many spring bulbs also introduce the season's first floral fragrance, an attribute that's increasingly important to American gardeners. |
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The British brought in gardeners from the Kew Gardens to help beautify the layout, and added the Glass House, based on the Crystal Palace, London. |
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Most home gardeners now opt for planting in beds rather than rows. |
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Their part-time profession requires them to strike the pose of figures such as trees, gardeners, tennis players and toastmasters, then maintain it absolutely motionless. |
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Along with the garden tours, visitors saw bee-keeping demonstrations, got tips from gardeners, participated in a papermaking workshop and took in a few information displays. |
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A staff of over 200 full-time cooks, maids, gardeners, builders, drivers, translators and security staff cater for the film student's every possible need. |
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A few plants such as bougainvillea and shrimp plants flower all year-round, but island gardeners complain that their season is actually quite short. |
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The volunteer gardeners at St Leonard's Hospice are calling on fellow horticulturalists to help them make their plant sale a blooming success for our Hospice 2000 Appeal. |
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Cowboy gardeners try to trick pensioners into paying for the uncompleted work and even offer to drive them to the bank to grab the cash, according to the police. |
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Not all collectors of flora began life as gardeners or botanists. |
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Housed in food tents alongside the pier, some of West Cork's finest fish smokers, cheese makers and organic gardeners will have their produce on sale. |
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This species of soldier beetle is called the Plague Soldier Beetle by gardeners because vast numbers of them appear on plants through spring, summer and autumn. |
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But there's a whole network of tailors, painters, nuns, guards, gardeners, canonical lawyers, and others who sustain the life of this fascinating, mysterious place. |
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Most urban and suburban gardeners would nowadays be astonished to see the once-common linnet or bullfinch, even if they recognised one in the first place. |
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Green-fingered gardeners are preparing to add a splash of colour to the Auld Grey Town this summer with their entries for the 2004 Kendal in Bloom competition. |
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In those days, a grand house would employ at least 16 domestic servants, and perhaps an army of 30-cooks, parlour maids, footmen, hall boys, gardeners, butlers, coachmen. |
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Grown-ups who worked as grooms, butlers, maids or gardeners in the surrounding plantation houses occasionally brought these home with left-over foods wrapped in them. |
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Yes, sowing is fiddly, to a degree that can terrify novice gardeners. |
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These gardeners may make note of those plants they'd like to add to their personal landscapes and seek them out at nurseries or special plant sales. |
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With so many fun new choices and tried-and-true favorites to choose from, gardeners this fall should find excitement in mail-order bulb catalogues and garden center aisles. |
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If you look after your tools, they'll look after you and maybe some day, you can pass them down to the next generation of enthusiastic gardeners like family heirlooms. |
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The company offers more than 600 varieties of organically grown, mostly heirloom seeds for gardeners and more than 100 types of seeds in bulk amounts for farmers. |
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Baildon gardeners should take heart from news that a cattle grid and fence may be erected to stop animals from Baildon Moor straying on to their land. |
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The statues and trees looked tiny from up high, as did the hedges that had been clipped into elaborate shapes by the skilled gardeners, into birds and animals. |
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Some gardeners might spurn a plant that usurps and overgrows their garden. |
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Because of the scarcity of water and succulent vegetation in the desert, rural gardeners often find everything from skunks to javelina to coyotes nibbling at their crops. |
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A superweed that is the bane of gardeners throughout the UK could be brought under control by introducing a bug from Japan, scientists have suggested. |
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All agriculturists, environmentalists, horticulturists, and home gardeners have one all-abiding question about any plant they wish to introduce into their growing spaces. |
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I realize there may be a number of urban gardeners who, for a small fee, would be more than happy to set me up with some sweepings from their grow-op. |
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Northern gardeners start parsnips in early spring, then let them grow all season and leave them in the ground covered with mulch for a winter or early spring harvest. |
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Some gardeners bemoan showy colchicum's handsome, foot-long, leek-like foliage, which mantles the ground in spring before withering indecorously in early summer. |
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Home gardeners can buy the fungi as soil inoculants from seed catalogs. |
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Asian vegetables have found favour with Australian chefs and gardeners alike because not only do they taste fantastic, but they are incredibly quick and easy to grow. |
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Alpine and rock garden plants provide gardeners with a fantastic range to choose from and often produce disproportionately large or prolific numbers of attractive flowers. |
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These simple maintenance tasks keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for winter. |
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Here on the west coast, where every wee cormlet left in the ground in the fall sprouts in the spring, home gardeners will empathize with Parkinson. |
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The gardeners wanted to plant a tree to commemorate my time as head gardener there, and the senior forester had said I might choose any tree I liked from the tree nursery. |
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A photograph of a wedding taken in the 1950s shows the occupations of those pictured as gamekeepers, hydro-electric workers, laundry maids, cooks and gardeners. |
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It seems anathema to most gardeners to go against their natural instincts to prune, train, stake, deadhead, divide and generally fuss on the plants in their gardens. |
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The one good thing about all this gloom and doom, I thought to myself, is that it would be highly unlikely that my neighbor's gardeners would appear on a day like this. |
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Back in town, among the most distinctive digs are the Hotel Sofitel Central, a palatial, seafront pavilion of louvres, punkah fans and armies of gardeners. |
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Immigrant day laborers, domestics and gardeners have built independent organizations, even without labor law protection or support from local unions. |
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Both kinds will produce compost, but most gardeners prefer aerobic bacteria because they work much faster. |
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Thaw, 60, also left pounds 1,000 each to his gardeners Clive Dards and Jane Stanbridge and housekeepers Beatrice Wilcox and June Toop. |
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Yet some gardeners are put off by the idea of unsightly veg taking up valuable flower space in pots on the patio. |
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This offered 30 different varieties of seed potato, ideal for home gardeners and allotment holders. |
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There is evidence that New Guinea gardeners invented crop rotation well before western Europeans. |
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At one time, gardeners had a forcing house or shed specially designed for this type of work. |
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At least that's when the lovely uphill gardeners who live above me are the friskiest. |
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Growing up in Meridian, all the gardeners we knew were forever chattering on about things like cutworms and compost. |
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Puncture vine is a prostrate weed that Southern California gardeners may occasionally encounter. |
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The orach produces an abundance of seeds and is a hardy plant, making it a good choice to share with other gardeners. |
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The fertiliser, known as wormcast, is sold to gardeners for pounds 8 a tub. |
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It provides a sustainability-tool for home gardeners, DIY hydroponics and aquaponics growers. |
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Many gardeners harvest their own cut flowers from domestic gardens, but there is a significant floral industry for cut flowers in most countries. |
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The Titan Arum was planted at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in Devon in 2003 and has been cared for by gardeners ever since. |
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Home gardeners often plant a piece of potato with two or three eyes in a hill of mounded soil. |
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A Yes, gardeners need a cold frame whether or not they also have a greenhouse. |
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Overall, people in vocationally trained, skills-based jobs, such as hairdressers, gardeners, plumbers and electricians, were happiest. |
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Ina double task, the gardeners have to present cauliflowers and cape gooseberries. |
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In a double task, the keen gardeners are asked to present both cape gooseberries and cauliflowers. |
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Diatomaceous earth, more commonly known as food grade, is the third pest control tip that gardeners should try. |
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Mirren portrayed a devoted plantswoman in the film, who coaches a team of prison gardeners, led by Clive Owen, to victory at a prestigious flower show. |
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The previous edition was published in 2001, and in the intervening years, the number of Japanese maple cultivars available to gardeners has doubled. |
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This wind-borne refuse adds to the work of tidying up after storms, but gardeners should do more than just sweep up the mess after the winter gales. |
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Flower gardeners around here may want to consider trumpet honeysuckle, New England aster, white snakeroot and some varieties of goldenrod, she advised. |
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However, suburban gardeners often have a few different types within easy reach, which means the bees don''t have to travel so far to cross-pollinate the flowers. |
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A valuable general-purpose fungicide, this mixture of copper sulphate and lime is sold in garden centres, and is about the most effective available to gardeners. |
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Other California native wild flowers Pokorski recommends for novice gardeners are lupine, tidytips, Chinese houses and baby blue eyes, available in seeds at garden centers. |
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That's why gardeners interplant Oriental poppies with concealing companions such as baby's breath, catmint, globe thistle, Heliopsis, purple coneflower, and Russian sage. |
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A microgreen has a single central stem, which has been cut just above the soil during harvesting-in fact, home gardeners often snip them with scissors. |
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Frugal gardeners will wonder why they ever dithered about the cost, and curmudgeonly gardeners, who think tulips belong in Holland, will foreswear their pessimistic outlook. |
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Here's how three gardeners show off their espaliered pyracanthas. |
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A few old cultivars are still produced on a large scale, but many have been preserved by home gardeners and farmers that sell directly to local markets. |
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Pulmonarias, or lungworts, are excellent garden plants and, as well as essential provisions for bees, they also give gardeners hope and anticipation of the year to come. |
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Loved by landscapers and novice gardeners alike for its colour and structure, the salvia is the Horticultural Trades Association's Plant of the Month for July. |
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The people living there are gardeners and pig husbanders who know and use many of the species of plant found between altitudes of 1200 and 2400 metres. |
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More than 18 gardens across Bahrain are being judged by the team of horticulturalists, landscapers and professional gardeners for Bahrain's annual gardening competition. |
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Thevenot also encourages novice gardeners to become familiar with other living architecture found in garden design, including topiary and pleached plants. |
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Doronicums are appearing in garden centres after a long period out of fashion, giving newer gardeners the opportunity to discover these excellent border plants. |
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The grape hyacinth, so called because its bells are almost spherical and clustered tightly round their stems, is regarded by some gardeners as a pest. |
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Llanishen Parish Council advised gardeners to put fruit and vegetables in Kilner jars, as this would mean they would not have to use sugar to preserve them. |
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