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1. Gardening: Pieris japonica brings a blaze of colour
Get Wokingham, Friday 17 May 2013The garden is brimming over with salmon pinks and flaming reds this week.
2. Gardening: Akebia quinata buzzing with bees
Get Wokingham, Friday 10 May 2013I was working close to the fence where the huge Akebia quinata commonly known as the chocolate vine is in flower and buzzing with bees.
3. Gardening: All systems go in the garden
Get Wokingham, Friday 26 April 2013Examining the garden at the weekend I noticed two important developments.
4. Gardening: Wooden hurdles idea for raised beds
Get Wokingham, Friday 03 May 2013My commitment to the raised vegetable patch – which wavered last year – has been re-established.
5. Reading in Bloom aims to find town's best gardeners
Get Wokingham, Tuesday 07 May 2013The call is out to gardeners across the borough to get digging and dibbling for Reading In Bloom 2013.
6. Gardening: Wait for the soil to warm
Get Wokingham, Friday 12 April 2013Farmers used to put their bare bottoms into the soil to test whether it was warm enough to sow.
7. Gardening: Blue and green should always be seen
Get Wokingham, Friday 19 April 2013Someone in my youth used to tell me that ‘blue and green should never be seen without a colour in between’.
8. Reading Chilli Cook-Off returns in August
Get Wokingham, Thursday 25 April 2013First Reading, now the world – the Chilli Cook-Off is firing up for another contest in August.
9. Gardening: Great time to prune buddleia
Get Wokingham, Friday 22 February 2013The buds are bursting all around the garden, which means it is a good time to do a bit of pruning.
10. Royal Berks kidney patients kept in the cold
Get Wokingham, Thursday 28 February 2013Kidney patients at Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH) are having to wrap up in blankets as they endure five hours of dialysis in a chilly ward.
