Category: Greenhouse Gardening
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While it’s still too soon to predict the kind of scorching temperatures we saw in Summer 2024, the Met Office has cautiously stated that we currently have “an above-average chance of warmer-than-average conditions” coming to the UK. In the wake of 2024’s brutal heatwaves across Europe, Copernicus deputy director Samantha Burgess said: “Temperature-related extreme events…
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GreenSTEM. Sainsbury Lab Cambridge University display at Chelsea Flower Show 2025. J.Garget If the only way you want to spend time away from your own garden right now is in places where you can look at and think about other gardens (preferably with some science thrown in), now’s the perfect time – in London, at…
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While growing fresh fruits, veggies and herbs all year round sounds like the dream lifestyle, there are plenty of issues that can get in the way — think the climate, space limitations, pesky pests and more. However, there is one product that can solve many common gardening dilemmas: a greenhouse. Temperature is controlled, and pests…
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Angelo Rea and Derek Zanatta say they love tending to tomato, kale and other plants in the new greenhouse at the Bethesda Community Services site in Vineland. “I water the plants; I like to help my friends,” said Rea, 54. “It really…
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Wondering what a landscape architect’s garden actually looks like? Well, Pollyanna Wilkinson’s features a rather handsome Alitex greenhouse, which was recently unveiled at Chelsea Flower Show. We asked her to open the doors and tell us all about it. Exclusive: Inside Pollyanna Wilkinson’s Greenhouse Hi Pollyanna! Which flowers are you growing right now? Right now…
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As Britain heats up and basks in divine sunshine, you might be burdened with another tiresome chore: ensuring the garden stays alive during one of the most risk-averse times of the year. With parts of the UK set to receive scorching conditions with the mercury reaching up to 30 degrees, the country might be in…
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Sunlight is an essential part of greenhouse growing, but when we’re hit with blazing temperatures like this week’s heatwave, it’s crucial that you know how to shade a greenhouse, too. In fact, shading should be factored into all greenhouse ideas. Just as we humans need garden shading ideas to keep cool, so do our plants…
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Greenhouses are so much more than a home for your seedlings and sun-loving plants. They are an essential part of the garden for so many of us, not least as a place to grow even more plants, but also as incredibly useful storage. It isn’t as simple as just picking up your plants and placing…
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Tom Estabrook gives a tour of his enormous new greenhouse that has all the latest technology in horticulture. POWNAL, Maine — Estabrook’s has two garden centers, one in Yarmouth and another in Kennebunk, but the family-owned business recently opened an enormous state-of-the-art greenhouse in Pownal. “[It’s] 55,000 square feet of new greenhouse,” Tom Estabrook boasted…
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For those who have limited garden space, the mini greenhouse is the ideal for growing your favourite flowers and plants. This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Garden lovers can get a cracking discount on this ‘sturdy’ mini greenhouse.(Image: Yimbly) Now that we…