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		<title>South Africa Landscape &#8211; at the British Museum Forecourt, London</title>
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Visit information

Admission: Free
Dates: 29 April &#8211; 10 October 2010
Location: West Lawn, Museum forecourt, British Museum, London
Map: How to get there

About the Landscape
Kew&#8217;s South Africa Landscape at the British Museum celebrates the two institutions’ shared vision to strengthen cultural understanding and support biodiversity conservation across the world. Our Landscape makes connections between plants, people and objects on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardeninginportugal.com/?p=491</link>
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		<title>Mediterranean Garden Fair – Saturday November 6th 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ ADVANCE NOTICE !!     ADVANCE NOTICE !!    ADVANCE NOTICE !!



Following on from the amazing response to last year’s event, we have already started planning another wonderful gardening bonanza focussed on Mediterranean Gardening on the Algarve. The move to a bigger venue in the central Algarve, near Sta Barbara de Nexe, with good access from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardeninginportugal.com/?p=416</link>
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		<title>Organic Market, Barril de Alva (near Coja)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next  Saturday morning 17 July  there will be an  Organic Market  in Barril de Alva (near Coja) at Parque de Merendas under the Plane trees.   I have kindly been offered a table to represent Beira Gardening Friends and the MGS (www.mediterraneangardensociety.org) .   I will be selling some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardeninginportugal.com/?p=401</link>
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		<title>Australian Plant Day &#8211; June 2nd 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[List of  (some) Plants to grow from seed recommended for the Algarve (Mediterranean zone)
From the south west of Australia (Mediterranean zone) selected by
Pete Nash, Sales &#38; Purchasing, Nindethana Seed Co. Web site, http://www.nindethana.net.au/ Email. nindseed@gawa.org.au
(wholly owned by not for profit organisation www.greeningaustralia.org.au)
PLEASE ALWAYS CHECK that you are not introducing any plants on the Invasive Plants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardeninginportugal.com/?p=393</link>
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		<title>Propagation Workshop and Tour, April 29th 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[at DRAPALG,(Direcção de Serviçios de Agricultura e Pescas, Divisão de Apoio à Produção Agrícola) Patacão, FARO.
Web site. www.drapalg.min-agricultura.pt

Our tutor and guide for the day was Enga. Margarida Sofia Jordão Costa. The morning was dedicated to a practical lesson on seed sowing and on taking cuttings.  Enga. Margarida demonstrated a standard method for encouraging germination of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardeninginportugal.com/?p=384</link>
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		<title>Species Count Day / Notes &amp; book list  April 2010</title>
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“95 per cent observation /5 per cent  glue and sticky tape”
The day started with a few words from Udo Schwarzer (Algarve Biologist based near Aljezur) on the approach he would use to teach us how to observe and learn from the natural vegetation. He emphasised that it was not important at this stage to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardeninginportugal.com/?p=375</link>
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		<title>Seed Workshop Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new page has been added to the right hand menu with full notes from the Seed Workshop day held in March.
The day was dedicated to learning more about collecting, cleaning and storing your own seeds. The notes also contain some useful links to other web sites with more details on cleaning different kinds of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardeninginportugal.com/?p=372</link>
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		<title>Spring Flowers on the Algarve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our first opportunity to go out and about in our own garden and the surrounding hills was a glorious reminder of the huge diversity of spring flowers &#8211; and orchids &#8211; which populate the wilder areas of the south of Portugal. Enjoy !
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		<link>http://www.gardeninginportugal.com/?p=346</link>
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		<title>Northern Europe gardening &#8211; a reminder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent visit to the Midlands area of the UK was a salutory lesson in winter gardening for someone like me who has been living in the south west of Europe for the last five years.  We had heard about the snow and ice on the roads but it was still a bit of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardeninginportugal.com/?p=337</link>
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		<title>Aloe, aloe, aloe</title>
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Yesterday I was able to visit the local Algarve Regional Agricultural Department near Faro and they have some interesting plantings. Looking very good at the moment are the aloes in the succulent garden.  This garden is on well drained sandy soil so the recent heavy rains have not caused the problems we are experiencing in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gardeninginportugal.com/?p=324</link>
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