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Gardeners are being encouraged to let grass and wildflowers bloom for ‘No-Mow May’. The annual campaign acts as a reminder of all the ways we can support insects, tackle pollution and slash emissions in our own backyards. Putting away your lawn mower and allowing native plants to flourish is one of the best ways to help pollinators do their essential work. Letting your lawn grow can also increase butterfly numbers by over 90 per cent, a recent study has shown. But it may require you to rethink your prejudices: even plants traditionally considered as weeds, such as ragwort, hawthorn and ladytho...
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Theo works weekdays, weekends and nights checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers. The boxy robot - named after a retired employee at the WAM Pennings farm near the Dutch North Sea coast - is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from the bulb fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime colour. On a windy spring morning, the robot trundles along rows of yellow and red 'goudstuk' tulips, checking each plant and, when necessary, killing diseased bulbs to prevent the spread of the tulip-breaking virus. The dead bulbs are removed from healthy ones in a sorting warehouse a...
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If springtime flowers fill you with joy, there is one place in Europe which is an absolute must: Keukenhof. Close to the Dutch capital of Amsterdam, you’ll find vast gardens filled with a staggering seven million - mostly tulip - bulbs. The Lisse-based floral exhibition is set on 32 hectares (or 79 acres) of land and each bulb is painstakingly planted by one of Keukenhof’s 40 gardeners. 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the glorious garden. Here’s everything you need to know about it - and how to make a floral visit a reality, when it officially opens on 21 March. A brief history of Keukenhof...
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