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Create your own tomato salsa recipe with Haskins Garden Centres
Haskins is encouraging gardeners to make the most of their home-grown tomatoes with a delicious salsa recipe for summer. Alasdair Urquhart, plant advisor at Haskins Garden Centres, commented: “Growing your own tomatoes is simple and rewarding. Most tomato plants will begin to ripen in August, providing plenty of delicious tomatoes for late summer. “Start…
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Dahlias Making a well-deserved return in popularity and with a wide range of forms, Dahlias are excellent for keeping the colour going throughout the summer. There’s a Dahlia for every situation from summer borders, patio containers, bedding schemes and cut flowers. With the many recent introductions, they offer a wide range of flower types, often…
Read MoreGet your garden ready now for a display of spring colour with Haskins Garden Centres
Haskins is encouraging gardeners to plan ahead for next year and has created a bulb planter guide to add a burst of colour after the dull autumn and winter months. Alasdair Urquhart, plant advisor at Haskins Garden Centre in Ferndown, commented: “Gardening requires patience, especially when it comes to planting bulbs in the autumn ready…
Read MoreEnglish Lavender
English Lavender An easy to grow, evergreen shrub that offers masses of beautifully scented flowers above silvery-green foliage. Originating from the Mediterranean, English Lavender is a popular plant for adding summer colour to sunny borders, container, herb or gravel gardens. They thrive in warm summers and wet winters in any poor or moderately fertile, free-draining…
Read MoreGeraniums
Geraniums A traditional favourite, summer Geraniums provide long lasting colour to lift any border or patio. The bright, vivid colours of summer geraniums are always a popular choice for gardeners. An essential addition to sunny mixed borders or pots they thrive in free draining soils and are very drought tolerant. Upright and bushy, these succulent-stemmed…
Read MoreFrench Lavender
French Lavender Cultivated for more than 400 years, French Lavender offers intense fragrance and unforgettable flower spikes. French Lavender are popular plants for adding summer colour in sunny mixed borders or pots. Originating from the Mediterranean, they thrive in free draining soils and are very drought tolerant. They survive well in a sunny corner or…
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