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The buds and the bees

Before you squash that bee, think – it’s been estimated that, without it and its billions of little cousins, it would cost the UK £1.8bn every year to hand-pollinate crops.

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pulmonaria (lungwort)

Divide and rule

May isn’t just the time to plant and enjoy the flowers of late spring; it’s also a time to clean up, cut back and lift and divide many plants which have already passed their peak.

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In search of a good grandad

RSPB Old Moor needs a grandad.

Dahlia

The dahlia news

Dahlias can be as fiery as an inferno but they’re also big softies – the slightest frost will have them collapsing in a miserable heap.

Cyclamen Miracle Series in a pot.

Insider dealing

They sit there, quietly, minding their own business. Trying to please. Whatever the circumstances.

Himalayan garden
The Hutts, Ripon

Himalayan garden hits heights

There’s an annual blossoming taking place in a quiet corner of Wensleydale.

amelanchier

Star attraction

Spring has arrived – with some sun, some snow and some confusion.

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Land of the giants

Fancy winning fame and fortune? Well, now’s your chance because following the success of their previous pumpkin-growing and pumpkin-carving competitions, seedsmen Thompson & Morgan are throwing down the gauntlet again.

Farmer Tamara Hall on the allotments at Molescroft Grange farm, near Beverley where 60 families from the area are now able to grow their own fruit and vegetables. PICTURE: TERRY CARROTT

A place to put down some roots

Tamara Hall, 37, managing director of Molescroft Farms Ltd, based at Molescroft Grange near Beverley, realised that demand for allotments far outstrips the availability of land. She explained: “I was chatting to a couple of friends – one from Leeds and one from London – who both said they’d been wanting allotments for years but couldn’t even get onto the waiting list because there was such high demand. I thought that perhaps there was a similar need in Beverley and, I discovered that there were 300 people on the waiting list and some had been waiting for seven years.

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