Advantages: Powerful, non-clogging leaf-shredder system and easy to change from blow to vacuum
Disadvantages: heavy, awkard to attach or release collection bag from the vacuum, collect small stones.

...Before purchasing this product, I visited Flymo website to make sure that the product is suitable for the type of garden I have. My garden has a mixture of different types of stones and gravels. Some are bigger and more expensive than the others. The information on the website is very clear. Flymo Garden Vac 2200w Turbo should not collect the objects of high density such as stones. With this information, I went ahead and purchased the product from a local retailer. While assembling the product, I noticed that: Positive: 1. Flymo Garden Vacs have plastic cutters. This makes it very safe to use, clean, and pack up at the end of the day. 2. It has a non-clogging leave shredder system. 3. There are 3 setting: blow, vacuum, and jet vacuum for stubborn debris. 4. Unlike other brands, it is very easy to switch from blow to vacuum... Read review

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Advantages: Great food, very friendly staff, great service!
Disadvantages: Absolutely none

...you've stepped onto Dutch ground as there are Dutch football jerseys hanging around as well as wooden clogs, an orange decoration here and there and well, tulips garden? That must be Holland! The restaurant doesn't have a real indoor part apart from a few armchairs located near the kid's corner, but hey, who'd wanna sit inside while it's lovely warm weather and you can be out on the terrace? They have two computers with the internet for customers for free, a huge pile of Dutch, English, German and Turkish magazines and some playing facility for kids, too. The terrace has two parts, the smaller under a roof could hold about 40 people, the outmost terrace which only occassionally gets roofed (e.g. if the seeds of ficus trees above your head keep bombing you or sun is too strong), has space for about 60 people, plus a few seats at the bar... Read review

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Advantages: Mary mary, quite contrary. How does your garden grow?
Disadvantages: With slime and snails and puppy dog tails!!

...MY GARDEN **The purpose of my review is mainly to help me and others through my learning process. I'm hoping to become a good little gardener by this time next year! I will be updating each month and reviewing my progress every 3 months. I hope my experiences will also help other complete learners on looking after their gardens! **Regular readers are welcome to scan down to the bottom to read the updates each month. As a little girl I loved to play in my mam's garden. It was messy but had little sections for different plants. There was a lawn area and shed at the back of the garden, a glass house for tomatoes, a huge vegetable patch for potatoes and runner beans on canes, a fruits area where rhubarb, gooseberries and blackcurrants thrived, and a little herb garden. I loved the fact that for a Sunday dinner I could go... Read review

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Advantages: Everything you need in one book.
Disadvantages: Very Heavy.

...If you are looking for a Reference Book that covers every aspect of Gardening even for the beginner, this is the one for you. The book is published by Dorling Kindersley ISBN 0 7513 08625, and written by members of the The Royal Horticultural Society. I love gardening, I always have and having moved into a new home 2 years ago gave me a whole new garden to create. I think of a garden as an extention of your home and there is nothing I like to do more that potter around or just sit and enjoy what a garden can offer. What we had was a lot of Yorkshire stone walling, a poor lawn and lots of crazy paving, I hate crazy paving, where there should have been flower beds. We did have a tree, problem was though it had not been planted deep enough and it had to come down as it was leaning dangerously, That was the back garden... Read review

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Advantages: Plants and birds in a semi-tropical environment
Disadvantages: A little steep, some paths uneven

...~Introduction~ Jardim Botanico or the Botanical Garden is located on a hillside over looking Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira. As Madeira has a climate best described as semi-tropical it has a whole host of plants both native and imported. Jardim Botanico is one of many gardens in and around Madeira and is a garden that represents the many differing plants that are on display all over Madeira. It's most famous item or the most photographed part of the garden is it's carpet bedding or choreographed garden. A splendid display of multi-coloured plants all arranged and shaped into diamonds, squares, lines and even lettering. The choreographed garden has been photographed so much that it is present on many of the postcards for sale in and around Madeira. ~Getting there~ By Car - Jardim Botanico is located on the hillside above... Read review

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Advantages: Relaxing, Open all year, Good visitor facilities
Disadvantages: Expensive, Can get very busy, Signposting could be better

...The Alnwick Garden is the third most visited pay-for-entry garden in the UK, attracting around half a million visitors in 2004. I think this is a pretty impressive figure when you consider that Alnwick is not on what you might consider the major tourist routes - in fact, it is in a fairly remote corner of the country, situated in the middle of rural Northumberland. However, since it first opened to the public in 2002, it has fast become the most visited tourist attraction in in the county, and it is not even finished yet! The garden was the result of a vision by the Duchess of Northumberland, who saw a large area of derelict land within the grounds of Alnwick Castle and decided to do something positive with it by creating a beautiful, publicly accessible space for the local community. The garden was intended from the outset... Read review

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Advantages: Horticulture at its best a delight for all the family
Disadvantages: can be expensive and your feet will ache

...When mum and I climbed from the District line Underground train we discovered a pretty and quaint flower festooned station and what I suppose you would expect from our destination. Mum and I were taking another day out this time choosing the Richmond area as our destination. Mum is a keen gardener with fingers so green that should she come across a dying or wilting plant all she need do is blow on it to revive it. This was a contributing factor in our choice of day out and where better for a gardener but THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AT KEW. ************** HISTORY OF KEW Princess Augusta, mother of George III was an amateur botanist and on land leased by Queen Caroline and George II, founded the Gardens of Kew. George III continued his mother's work he had a passionate interest in horticulture and so was nicknamed Farmer George... Read review

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Advantages: Low maintanence, all year round attraction
Disadvantages: Children play with gravel

...Create a Gravel Garden (subtitle 'Welcome to BizzyBek's Ground Farce') Well, we've all seen the garden makeover shows haven't we? In 48 hours patches go from a scrub of land to a landscaped master piece. But is it as easy as it looks on the television? Almost three years ago, on moving to a new house, I decided to create a gravel garden in the front for a number of reasons I'll discuss later on. Unlike the television shows I wouldn't have any extra help and money was an object! Can you create a gravel garden at a reasonable price without breaking your bank and back in the process? Well I'm very pleased with my results. I wrote about my garden on my own website for fun and there are some small photos of my front garden at www.halfmoon0.demon.co.uk/gravel.htm if you would like to see what I am talking about. I hope you find... Read review

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Advantages: Informative, inspirational, well-filmed
Disadvantages: None

...If Dan Pearson, he of the tousled hair and sensuous mouth, cannot turn you onto gardening, then there is no hope for you. Not that there haven’t been other gardeners with certain earthy attractions. Many a lady gardener has sighed at the grass-roots tones of the late Geoff Hamilton, while I confess to having had a soft spot for Geoffrey Smith in his hey-day. Even the hapless Alan Titchmarsh, constantly upstaged by the bra-less Charlie Dimmock, has his army of fans, gardeners or not. Not that gardening is about sex, or attraction, or any of those things….. Well, actually, it is. In this new gardening programme from BBC 2, we see an unassuming master at work. In ‘The Garden with Dan Pearson’, that is! Dan Pearson is one of a new breed of garden designers. That is not to say he is all blue decking... Read review

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Advantages: Well-filmed, sensitively presented, educational and inspirational
Disadvantages: None

...If Dan Pearson, he of the tousled hair and sensuous mouth, cannot turn you onto gardening, then there is no hope for you. Not that there haven’t been other gardeners with certain earthy attractions. Many a lady gardener has sighed at the grass-roots tones of the late Geoff Hamilton, while I confess to having had a soft spot for Geoffrey Smith in his hey-day. Even the hapless Alan Titchmarsh, constantly upstaged by the bra-less Charlie Dimmock, has his army of fans, gardeners or not. Not that gardening is about sex, or attraction, or any of those things….. Well, actually, it is. In this new gardening programme from BBC 2, we see an unassuming master at work. In ‘The Garden with Dan Pearson’, that is! Dan Pearson is one of a new breed of garden designers. That is not to say he is all blue decking... Read review

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