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Urban Food Growing

How any growing space, large or small, can grow food in an urban environment

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Grow Flowers to Eat

Flowers offer pollen, nectar and fabulous blooms – but some of them can also be good to eat, writes Alice Whitehead from sustainable gardening charity Garden Organic.

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Planning A Space To Grow Food

Here's a resolution you'll want to keep! Make this year the year of Coronation Gardens for Food and Nature. If you are starting from scratch, this blog will help you, whether you have a…

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Make The Most of Your Homegrown Pumpkins

A pumpkin isn’t just for decoration. This Halloween maximise your harvest by using up all the fruit – and saving the seeds for sowing. Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic shows you how…

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15 reasons to plant a fruit tree

Celebrate Apple Day this October by bringing food and wildlife habitats to your garden with one amazing plant, writes Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic

Alice Whitehead

How to make a gutter garden

Alice Whitehead from Garden Organic shares how to make the most of small spaces with a practical guide to making a grow your own gutter garden.

Claire Gibbs

Gardening to save the world

Clare Gibbs, principal ecologist at Surrey Wildlife Trust, shares her passion for wildlife gardening, how it is pivotal to reviving biodiversity and her 5 top tips for how you can help.

Kate Bradbury

Welcome to Coronation Gardens!

Kate Bradbury, garden writer and author, shares her enthusiasm for the new initiative helping people to grow food alongside nature.