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Before I begin the wrap-up this week, I’ve had a request from top garden photographer Rachel Warne. She is looking for gardens that are a bit lost and in need of restoration to photograph. They might be grand, or they might be teeny-tiny little city gardens. If you know of any, email [...]

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Hot posts, stories and images from the web this week.
Susy at Chiot’s run has developed a fab way of organising her seeds.
You can win a pair of pruners from the Guardian Gardening Blog.
Claire at Things We Make has been creating [...]

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Hot posts, stories and images from the web this week.
Gorgeous post on Design Sponge featuring Daphne.
The wonderful winners of the RHS Photographic Competition have been announced.
Lila Das Gupta has written a brilliant post for Gardeners’ World on tough Eastern European [...]

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Hot posts, stories and images from the web this week.
Mark Diacono has written a very long but very fascinating blog post on carbon footprints and gardens.
A really useful series on creating the perfect family garden has started on the Mail’s [...]

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Hot posts, stories and images from the web this week.
The Guardian gives advice on growing potatoes, along with how to fight the dreaded late blight.
Sound words on growing raspberries from Lila Das Gupta on the Gardeners’ World Blog.
Patrick from Bifurcated Carrots gives [...]

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Hot posts, stories and images from the web this week
Stunning knitted vases on Design*Sponge
Fabulous shrubs for winter interest from A Way to Garden
Beautiful forced bulbs by Elspeth Thompson
Win a raised bed on the Guardian Gardening Blog
Don’t forget to enter the January giveaway [...]

I’m incredibly excited to introduce three lovely shiny new members of the F&F team to you today. These three writers will be contributing monthly blogs on their passion for certain areas of gardening, and they are a fabulous bunch.

I am absolutely thrilled with how well the Good Growing Guide has gone down on the blog. And today I’m even more thrilled to tell you that you can buy these lovely little postcards in hard copy for yourself. I received my first batch of cards from the printers this week, and did a little [...]

So. It’s the last day of 2009. I’ve had a pretty fabulous year. It has been fantastic gardening on my own plot rather than surreptitiously taking control of my parents’ garden. And for the first year on the vegetable patch, we’ve had a pretty satisfying crop. I am incredibly happy.
But one of the loveliest things [...]

I’m starting to look at F&F’s plans for the new year. I’ve already got lots in the pipeline, including the continuation of our Design Showcase series. We’ve had some fantastic designers sign up for this, and I’m currently making all sorts of excited noises as they send me images of their stunning work. I’m also [...]

I have been hiding over the past few days, working very hard on a new Fennel & Fern project which I will unveil in the next week. It is very exciting, and I can’t wait to share it with you. So please be patient with the sparse posts for a little while, and you will [...]