LoveTheGarden 2010 Transformation

11th March 2010, by Dan Walford

We’re thrilled to let you know it’s the official re-launch LoveTheGarden.com with its 2010 transformation on 14th February. During last season we compiled all the great ideas and suggestions to make the website even better, and on February the 14th these are officially put into action. So thank you to all our LoveTheGarden e-members for giving us your superb feedback… and we hope you like the new site!

Some of the new features that we’ve created are:

1. Clickable product labels icons so you can find out all the on pack product information, even before you’ve visited your local garden store.
2. Increased library of online videos to demonstrate products in use and easy garden projects.
3. New Gro Your Own area that details exactly what to grow where and when. These pages have been created to help gardeners of all skill levels get great fruit and veg growing results.
4. Informative Garden Blogs that will give an insight into what other gardeners are doing throughout the year. Get ideas that you can try in your own garden.
5. Even easier navigation to help you find the answers to your questions. Use the drop down menus to go straight to the information you want.
6. New Downloadable Guides and Planners that can be printed out and put up in the potting shed for quick reference. Use them to plan your veg planting, find out what products to use to treat pest and disease or even when to care for your lawn.

…and loads more useful information to get your hands dirty and help you make the most of your garden!

Freshness: 12 hours ago

Weedol now offers Rootkill Plus to deal with perennial weeds

23rd February 2010, by Dan Walford

Scotts most famous weedkiller brand, Weedol, is now ultra-effective thanks to a tough new product – Weedol Rootkill Plus.

Based on a formulation of glyphosate and pyraflufen ethyl, this exclusive and unique formula not only delivers the fast-acting visible results Weedol is famed for, but also effective root kill, so those weeds stay dead. The new formulation is available in concentrate and ready-to-use formats.

So if you want to get rid of pesky weeds in your garden, try Weedol Rootkill Plus!

Freshness: 16 days ago

Scotts Miracle-Gro Christmas Cards Benefit Charity

7th January 2010, by Dan Walford

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company has doubled the sum and the number of charities it supports thanks to the savings it makes by sending Christmas e-cards to their customers, suppliers and friends instead of sending printed cards by post.

Scotts were supported by their design agency, Design Hive Ltd, Farnham who contributed by waiving the creation costs, putting together an animated e-card incorporating Scotts’ own message together with the logos of Greenfingers and Gardening Leave.

For the fourth year running Scotts has donated £1000 to the garden industry’s own charity, Greenfingers, that creates havens of gardening peace in the grounds of children’s Hospices. In addition Scotts has also adopted a new gardening charity called Gardening Leave with a similar sum. Gardening Leave provides horticultural therapy to ex-service men and women in a protected walled garden provided by the Scottish Agricultural College in Auchincruive, Ayrshire. The charity is the brainchild of Anna Baker Cresswell, a horticultural therapist who offers places to the residents of nearby Hollybush House, the Scottish residential home of Combat Stress, the ex-services mental welfare society that treats veterans with psychological problems.

Anna told Scotts, “The idea is to provide former servicemen and women with a secure environment where they can garden, assessing their needs and abilities and encouraging them to work on projects that produce tangible results, and work together as a team. Gardening is a fantastic catalyst in the healing process of these people who have developed combat stress problems while fighting for their country.”

And Gardening Leave continues to go from strength to strength. A research team from Glasgow University have been conducting a study into the psychological effects on veterans of working in the garden, and the plan is to roll out the Gardening Leave model at other veteran homes across the UK, starting with the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, and introducing similar projects at Combat Stress’s other two residential homes, Tyrwhitt House in Leatherhead and Audley Court at Newport in Shropshire.

Martin Breddy, VP and General Manager at Scotts, said, “We have been delighted to send a ‘green’ Christmas card this year and thus be able to continue our support of Greenfingers and additionally this year give help to Gardening Leave, a horticultural charity that is doing such positive work with ex-service people who get real benefit from growing plants.”

Freshness: 64 days ago

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