Hartley Magazine

All the latest news, hints, tips and advice from our experts

Written in United Kingdom

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023

‘FEEL GOOD’ BY HARTLEY BOTANIC HARTLEY BOTANIC’S BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL RHS CHELSEA TRADESTAND DELIVERS A MUCH-NEEDED PSYCHOLOGICAL BOOST The ‘Feel Good’ by Hartley Botanic tradestand displays four of our handmade Greenhouses, powder-coated in beautiful colours, to match changing customer tastes and set against cheery pastel planting and colourful accessories. Presented as versatile spaces for both gardening […]

Written in United States

Herbs to Start in the Greenhouse

The other day, I joined my grandchildren’s outdoor school class as they visited a nearby, but remote, Oregon nursery, The Thyme Garden. To get there necessitated an hour-and-a-half car trip, part of it on roads that twisted over the side of Marys Peak, the tallest mountain in the Coast Range of the Siuslaw National Forest. […]

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Develop a Flower Arranger’s Eye

I was lucky enough, just recently, to visit Beth Chatto’s Nursery and Garden near Colchester in Essex. It should be a place of pilgrimage for every gardener but, if the only way isn’t Essex, there are plenty of tempting, expertly-grown plants on offer on the nursery’s website. The conditions within this 7-acre garden vary between […]

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Successful ‘hardening off’ for perfect plantings

It is important to ‘harden off’ or acclimatising greenhouse grown plants to outdoor conditions before finally planting them out. Move them straight from greenhouse to garden and they can suffer from shock, particularly in cooler weather; most recover but it checks growth, causes yellowing and some vegetables may ‘bolt’ or run to seed. ‘Hardening off’ […]