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At Edinburgh Garden School we offer a range of specialist online gardening courses, from introductory and leisure courses to advanced…

Guest Article by Stephen Drummonsy Dibbing: Dibbing in is a simple and quicker planting technique than using a trowel. The…

Our growing collection of articles includes advice from many of the UK’s leading experts in gardening and horticulture. You can…

Guest post by Holly VicHammond Green thumbs know that gardening is never just gardening. It’s abstract art. It’s landscape design…

Monocots have only one cotyledon inside the seed coat. It is often only small because the endosperm to feed the…

In hypogeal germination the epicotyl extends and the cotyledons stay in the ground, whereas in epigeal germination the hypocotyl extends…

Annuals are plants that go through their entire lifecycle in one growing season. Hardy annual a plant that lives for…

R2101 February 2016 – Plant Growth Propagation and Development Q.3. Aerobic Respiration and Crop Storage Question: Q.3. a) State the…

Leaf bud cuttings are a form of stem cutting. They are comprised of a leaf, a bud in its leaf…

R2102 – Describe the Creation of Hot Beds The hot bed is a traditional gardening technique that has regained popularity…

The definitions below are especially useful for R2101. The plant examples given below are taken from the examiners’ comments on…

We all have some sense of what cohesion in a garden design means. It’s about creating a design where all…