Eden Project's Gardening Blogs
Wildlife gardening tips
Ahead of our wildlife gardening course, the Eden Gardening Team shares five tips on how to attract wildlife to your garden – from cuddly-looking hedgehogs and brightly coloured birds right down to the less glamorous, yet just as important, insects and worms. Why bother with wildlife gardening? Because Britain’s gardens provide a safe haven for [...]
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10 Mother’s Day gifts for garden lovers
If your mum’s a real garden-lover, take a look at this selection of 10 Mother’s Day gifts for the green-fingered. There’s everything from a grow-your-own truffle tree to a ‘seed bomb’ to help her transform her garden into a sea of forget-me-nots. 1. Gardening gift bag, £22.50 A lovely gift for green-fingered mums, this gift bag [...]
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Make your own newspaper seed pot
With spring just around the corner now is a good time to start preparing what you’d like to grow this year. Here’s a fun idea for making your own recycled, biodegradable pots to plant seeds in. It’s a nice activity for kids, too. The finished pots are quite sturdy while the seeds are growing, but [...]
Organise a seed exchange with friends and neighbours
Swapping seeds with friends and other gardeners in your neighbourhood is a great way to increase the variety of what you grow, as well as a good opportunity to exchange gardening tips. January is the best time of year to arrange a seed exchange, when you’re gearing up to grow plants for the year ahead. [...]
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How to make a Christmas wreath with willow
Why not be brave this year and make a Christmas wreath from scratch, using willow? You can either hang it on the door or use the wreath as a table decoration with candles in the middle. What you need About 30 stems of willow and/or dogwood, with a mixture of colours and thicknesses Items to [...]
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How to build an insect home
At our Freaky Nature with Bugs event this half-term (28 May – 2 June 2013), get the low down on the good, the bad and the ugly of the bug world; discover which bugs are plant-friendly and which definitely aren’t! Why not try making your own insect home – or ‘hotel’ – out of junk, [...]
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Why we can’t get enough of our new vegetable tables
Our buyers here at Eden are delighted with our new raised vegetable tables having re-sourced them from the most ethical sawmill they could find. Since our horticulture team planted the vegetable table here at Eden with an array of chillies, it’s been admired by visitors asking where they can find their own. So now we’ve [...]
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Make your own bird cake for the garden
These bird feeders not only attract birds to your garden; they’re also fun for kids to make. Use this simple bird cake (or ‘fat ball’) recipe as a way of feeding birds throughout the winter when bugs and berries are scarce. What you need (makes several) 5 digestive biscuits 1 cup bird seeds or peanuts Half [...]
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Top gifts for gardeners
We’ve done the hard work for you this Christmas and selected our favourite gifts for gardeners. Our webshop is packed full of gardener’s delights, from products to create a garden to be proud of, to the best presents to look after the gardener. Gold leaf gardening gloves from £17.50 These gloves are created with soft, [...]
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Five reasons to learn beekeeping
Man has been beekeeping for millennia – there are pictures of beehives on temples dating back to 2,500 BC. So there must be something in it! If you’re thinking of taking up beekeeping, why not join us for a one-day beekeeping course in November 2012? Or read on to be persuaded… Bees produce fresh honey A [...]
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