Helen: Barbara, when I see the huge amount of garden stuff that’s available in garden centres I am a bit overwhelmed. How do you know what to buy and how much?
Barbara: Well Helen, it depends on what you want to do. Let’s consider three different purposes: pots, flower beds and vegetables. In each case, have [...]

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If you have a shady patch in your garden that needs some lush green ground cover, you might enjoy Asarum canadense, commonly known as Wild Ginger. Here’s some in Barbara’s garden.

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In the first few posts, Barbara will show us some different ways we can give a nice lush green carpet to the garden by using ground cover. In this first video, she talks about Galium Odoratum, commonly known as Sweet Woodruff.

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Hello and welcome to Learning to Garden with Barbara! We hope you’ll come back often.

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