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Dominic Murphy

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Dominic Murphy writes on gardening and sustainability, and is the author of The Playground Potting Shed: A Foolproof Guide to Gardening with Children. You can read his blog about running the gardening club at his local school at edibleplaygrounds.co.uk

March 2012

  • Gardens: green gardening – the truth

    Gardens: green gardening – the truth

    Want an eco-friendly garden? Beware of hidden pitfalls that don't always fit the dream, warns Dominic Murphy

August 2011

  • Cornish cottage garden

    A Cornish cottage garden

    Dominic Murphy meets a downshifting couple who created their very own Eden project from scratch

April 2011

December 2010

April 2010

  • Gardening: Forest

    Gardens: Forest gumption

    You don't need acres of woodland to fill your garden with useful, edible plants. It's all about the style of growing, says Dominic Murphy, and that means planting in layers upwards

November 2009

  • wood burning stoves

    All fired up

  • Linnés two-toed sloth

    Guide to the night
    The world's strangest nocturnal animals

August 2009

  • Fergus and Louise Dowding

    Veg v flowers in the garden

    How do you split a single plot between one very keen veg grower and one flower fan? Dominic Murphy finds out

July 2009

  • Selling plants on a stall at the school fair

    Gardening blog
    A fair success

    Basil, garlic and geraniums all graced Dominic Murphy's gardening club plant stall, but would they sell?

June 2009

  • Plants for sale

    Gardening blog
    My caring, sharing local garden centre

  • A common purple orchid in Dominic's meadow

    Gardening blog
    Should we mow or meadow?

May 2009

  • A peat bog on the North York Moors

    Gardening blog
    Let's name and shame the peat offenders

  • A toilet roll in a public toilet

    Gardening blog
    Toilet rolls: the perfect seed starter pots

April 2009

  • Gardening blog
    In praise of spring cabbage

    Spring cabbage offers a welcome patch of green in the bare veg patch, says Dominic Murphy

March 2009

  • The cover of Dr DG Hessayon's book The Green Garden Expert

    Gardening blog
    Book review: The Green Garden Expert by Dr DG Hessayon

  • Gardening blog
    Every school needs a garden

January 2009

  • Gardening blog
    Supermarket spin

  • Starter's orders

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