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<p>We offer a wide range of top-quality garden chemicals and fertilisers to ensure healthy plant growth. This includes insecticides, weed killers, and everything you need to control fungus and disease.</p>

<p>Also find plant food, and a full range of lawn care.</p>

<p>Please visit to see more products in the range, which include ...</p>

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<p>In the battle against all the creepy crawlies which would like to enjoy your plants as much as you do, it&#39;s a&nbsp;good idea to be well-armed. You&#39;ll find everything you need to fight the good fight in our garden centre in St Albans: keep&nbsp;these essentials in the garden shed and you&#39;ll be prepared at all times.</p>

<p><strong>Sprays:</strong>&nbsp;insecticidal soap takes care of sap-sucking aphids on everything from roses to cabbages: you&#39;ll find&nbsp;handy spray guns in our garden centre. We also stock tree washes for getting rid of overwintering larvae and&nbsp;eggs on fruit trees and bushes.</p>

<p><strong>Barriers</strong>: keep pests at bay without having to kill them: a screen of horticultural fleece around carrots keeps&nbsp;carrot fly away, while garlic granules, grit and copper rings deter slugs. Insect-proof mesh available off the&nbsp;roll or as a ready-to-use cloche keeps caterpillars and other pests off crops.</p>

<p><strong>Organic deterrents:</strong>&nbsp;in our garden centre you&#39;ll find a range of organic methods for tackling pests, from&nbsp;super-effective wildlife friendly slug pellets to biological controls. We also stock a range of pheromone traps&nbsp;to hang among your plants for catching codling moth and other flying pests.</p>

<p>Please ask the staff in our&nbsp;garden centre for more information and advice about dealing with garden pests.</p>

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Garden Pests

<p>A little protection for your plants in extreme weather or when pests and diseases threaten can be the&nbsp;difference between success and abject failure. There&#39;s a comprehensive armoury of defences against the&nbsp;main threats to your plants available in our garden centre.</p>

<p><strong>Frosty weather</strong>: in our garden centre you&#39;ll find horticultural fleece both on the roll and in handy packets.&nbsp;Throwing a couple of layers over tender plants like potatoes when frost threatens can be enough to see them&nbsp;through. We also stock hessian sheets to tuck around thick straw for protecting tender palms, gingers and&nbsp;bananas.</p>

<p><strong>Gales and rain:</strong>&nbsp;polythene cloches, available off the peg in our garden centre, prevent your plants from&nbsp;getting waterlogged or shredded by wind. Our easy-to-construct cold frames also keep the weather off&nbsp;vulnerable young plants and seedlings.</p>

<p><strong>Pests:</strong>&nbsp;stretch fine-gauge netting, also available in our garden centre, over a framework to keep birds from&nbsp;stealing your berries. Netting cloches over cabbages and sprouts also keep pigeons at bay. There are a&nbsp;range of other options for warding off all sorts of pests in our garden centre, from biological controls to slug&nbsp;barriers and insecticidal sprays.</p>

<p>Please ask the staff in our garden centre in St Albans&nbsp; for more information and advice about protecting your crops.</p>

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<h3><strong>About National Garden Gift Vouchers and Cards</strong></h3>

<p>National Garden Gift Vouchers are the ideal gift for gardeners, giving them choice over what they treat themselves and their garden to. They can be&nbsp;<strong>spent at almost all of the UK&#39;s garden centres and retail nurseries</strong>&nbsp;and run on a not-for-profit basis. Proceeds are used to&nbsp;<strong>support the cause of gardening, garden traders and gardening charities</strong>&nbsp;across the UK.</p>

<p>At the moment there are two slightly different products: National Garden Gift Vouchers and National Garden Gift Cards. The only major difference is that a small number of garden centres don&#39;t yet accept the gift cards, though the numbers selling and accepting are pretty similar.</p>

<h5><strong>FAQs</strong></h5>

<h5><strong>Q. Can vouchers and cards be spent online?</strong></h5>

<h5>A. No, not yet, but it&#39;s something we&#39;re working on!</h5>

<h5><strong>Q. Do the vouchers and cards expire?</strong></h5>

<h5>A. Yes. A National Garden Gift Card purchased in a garden centre or online will expire 30 months after it is activated (i.e. after it is purchased). A National Garden Gift Voucher (i.e. the paper tokens) usually has an expiry date printed on the back of the voucher. Typically this will give at least three years in which to spend the voucher. A small number of old vouchers do not have an expiry date on them, and these vouchers do not expire.</h5>

<h5><strong>Q. Is the scheme financially safe?</strong></h5>

<h5>A. It&#39;s more robust than most gift card schemes that rely on a single retailer. If a single retailer stops trading or goes into administration, the chances are that that retailer&#39;s gift vouchers will not be honoured. With National Garden Gift Vouchers you can spend them in most of the UK&#39;s garden centres, so if one garden centre closes you can always spend it in another centre. The Horticultural Trades Association which runs the schemes has been going since 1899 and is funded by 1,500 garden businesses who are our members&nbsp;- we&#39;re pretty reliable!</h5>

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<h3>Potters Crouch Candles</h3>

<p><strong>This&nbsp;is us. The Potters Crouch family</strong></p>
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<p>We&rsquo;ve made it our mission to provide scents that cover all corners of everyday life.<br />
We&rsquo;ve all been there wanting to set the mood for a night in or something with enough power to cover that &lsquo;what is that smell!&rsquo; smell. Don&rsquo;t worry, we&rsquo;ve got you covered!</p>

<p>It all started with a problem, the eureka moment, a spare room and a passion to create something just&hellip;.lovely! That was over 20 years ago now. There is a bit more to it these days, but we make sure that every product to go out the door has had as much care, love and attention that the very first candle had all those years ago.</p>

<p>We&rsquo;re made up of a small team of 11 based in a converted barn within the rolling hills of Hertfordshire&rsquo;s countryside. We have a onsite shop which you can come and purchase from or if you just fancy a chat, the kettle is never long boiled!</p>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;">It&rsquo;s what we don&rsquo;t put in that counts!</h3>
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<h4>No soy allergens</h4>

<p>As a company we took the decision not to use any soy waxes in our products. The worlds over use of soy is causing an increasing percentage of the population to develop allergies to it and soy is on the national register of allergens as a result.</p>

<p>The process to convert a bean to a wax also involves the use of nickel which is another allergen so it&rsquo;s not for us. We stick to using a medical and edible grade of wax which is classed as hypoallergenic and is actually what is used on the back of allergy testing strips for this reason.</p>
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<h4>Vegan friendly</h4>

<p>Historically many perfumes used to contain animal secretions and many waxes were made from tallow (animal fats) and some countries still use them today. We feel it is not necessary in this day and age as with the advances in technology it is possible to create a copy of a &lsquo;scent&rsquo; by combining other scent molecules together, so we don&rsquo;t need the help of a Beavers vanilla smelling butt thank you!</p>

<p>There are also plenty of natural waxes readily available. We choose not to use beeswax in our products as this is what bees use to store their honey and house their young so we&rsquo;d rather not disturb them as our bees need all the help they can get. Without bees we couldn&rsquo;t bring you our lovely fragrances, we like to think of bees as being little tiny perfumers.</p>

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<h4>Cruelty free</h4>

<p>Being cruelty free is very important to us and we take great care to make sure all the ingredients we use are not tested on animals. As a company we will not work with any organisation that uses animal testing and we do not ship our products to countries who insist on animal testing.</p>

<p>We have a long history of being animal lovers here from Henry and Tilly our office dogs to Freddo the garden frog, Drew our visiting shrew who steals dog biscuits and Brian our barn snail who comes out to party every night leaving a trail behind him &hellip;we wouldn&rsquo;t hurt a fly!</p>

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<h4>No palm oil</h4>

<p>We don&rsquo;t use palm oil in any of the fragranced products we make simply because there are other waxes which do a far better job so it is not needed. Of course, we also care about the environment and sustainability as well so if there is a better alternative, we will always use it!</p>

<p>Historically we have made soaps which have contained a tiny amount of CSPO or RSPO certified sustainable palm oil grown by independent farmers which does not contribute to deforestation or the loss of wildlife habitats but helps to support the farmers and their families and educate people about the problem with non-sustainable palm.</p>

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<h4>Hell no&hellip;No gmo</h4>
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<p>We believe that not enough is known about gmo products yet and their long-term environmental effects, so for now we will steer clear of them until we are told with absolute certainty, they have no detrimental effects on the environment and we won&rsquo;t grow a third arm because of them&hellip; although that might come in handy! (see what we did there).</p>

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<h3>Boxworth Botanicals</h3>

<p>Here at Boxworth Botanicals we promise&nbsp;you that our products are freshly made&nbsp;with care for the best results.</p>

<p>When you buy&nbsp;from us you can be assured that each product&nbsp;has passed our tests to deliver these promises.&nbsp;</p>

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	<li>High quality, natural plant based skincare.</li>
	<li>Unique blends designed to be effective.</li>
	<li>Safe, gentle and &lsquo;good for the skin&rsquo; creams, for all skin types.</li>
	<li>No toxic ingredients, NO PARABENS, SULPHATES OR PETROCHEMICALS.</li>
	<li>Light and non-greasy.</li>
	<li>Beautiful uplifting fragrances.</li>
	<li>A healthy and natural way to look after your skin.</li>
	<li>100% pure essential oils.</li>
	<li>Not tested on animals.</li>
	<li>Made in England.</li>
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Giftware & Vouchers

<p>In these days of unpredictable weather a drought is never far away, so kit yourself out to keep your plants&nbsp;going through even the driest summer from the wide range of watering equipment in our St Albans&nbsp;garden centre.&nbsp;Here&#39;s what you&#39;ll need to make sure your plants need never go thirsty again.</p>

<p><strong>Watering cans</strong>&nbsp;are useful all year, but especially if you&#39;re in an area subject to a hosepipe ban. Larger 10-&nbsp;litre and 5-litre cans keep the garden going, while small 1-litre cans are ideal for seedlings and houseplants.</p>

<p><strong>Water butts</strong>&nbsp;store rainwater so you don&#39;t have to use up precious tap water. These days they come in a wide&nbsp;range of designs: connect them together to double your storage capacity.</p>

<p><strong>Hoses and attachments</strong>&nbsp;make watering easy, with everything from spray guns to sprinklers in our range.&nbsp;Leaky hoses conserve water, too: lay them alongside your plants to deliver water where it&#39;s needed.</p>

<p><strong>Automated watering systems</strong>&nbsp;free you from watering chores to enjoy your garden. Connect dripper&nbsp;systems via a hose to a timer, set to water whenever you want without you having to lift a finger.</p>

<p>Please ask the staff in our garden centre in St Albans&nbsp;for more information and advice about your watering needs.</p>

<p><strong>Our Hozelock&nbsp;range provides:</strong></p>

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	<li>Timers&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Hoses and countless accessories</li>
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Irrigation & Watering

<p>We stock a small&nbsp;range of garden ornaments and water features to suit any size of garden and every price bracket. All the designs we sell are skilfully manufactured out of hard-wearing and durable materials and are made to last.</p>

<p>Our friendly staff are always on hand to offer advice, so if you need tips on the garden ornaments or water features that might work best in your own garden</p>

<h2><img alt="" height="100" src="https://www.thehertfordshiregardencentre.com/files/images/56649466_10157141953392673_473634158585839616_n.jpg" width="100" />&nbsp;NEW IN - <strong>HADDONSTONE</strong> ALL HAND MADE!</h2>

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<p><em><b>*please be advised a variety of our products are seasonal. And can only be found at certain points of the year.</b></em></p>

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Garden Ornaments & Water Features

<p>Pots...</p>

<p>They nurture young plants, providing a stable and protected environment. They add life and colour to decked or terraced areas of larger gardens. A few well-placed large pots and planters can add points of interest to extended areas of lawn. Window ledges &amp; Indoor spaces</p>

<p>At The Hertfordshire Garden Centre&nbsp;we stock a huge variety, in a wealth of styles, textures, colours and finishes. From traditional terracotta planters to more contemporary lightweight granite containers, as well as a range of plastic pots, we have something to make an impact in any garden, or indeed anywhere else in or around your home.</p>

<p>Our friendly staff are always on hand to offer advice, so if you need tips on the pots and planters that might be best for your own home or garden.</p>

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Pots & Containers

<p>At the garden centre we stock everything you need for&nbsp;healthy and flourishing plants from seeds to their best.&nbsp;</p>

<p>We stock...</p>

<p>Thousands of seed varieties from trusted, everyday seeds, exotic, even italian seeds from a compant called Franchi.</p>

<p>Caring for them...</p>

<p>Give your young plants the attention they need, including</p>

<p>greenhouse heaters, paraffin fuel, cloches, propagators, thermometers, fibre pots, plastic pots and saucers, perlite and vermiculite.</p>

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Propagation

<p>As well as paints, we also sell Ronseal&rsquo;s range of treatments and preservatives, so things can&nbsp;stay&nbsp;looking its best.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Our Ronseal range comes in various sizes so you can find the one that best suits your requirements. - We also stock trade goods and sizes (please feel free to contact on more information about this)</p>

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Treatments & Preservatives

<h3>Where to grow</h3>

<p>Majority of houseplants will thrive in:</p>

<p>Well-lit, draught-free, even temperature and high humidity. However some plants do prefer different conditions, so make sure you do your research - for instance</p>

<p>- Cacti, succulents and carnivorous plants like it bright</p>

<p>- Orchids like indirect light lots of fresh air and high humidity.</p>

<p>- Some plants prefer darker areas so they don&#39;t get scorched.</p>

<h3>What to do</h3>

<h3>Watering</h3>

<ul>
	<li>Keep the compost moist but wait until it has almost dried out before rewatering.</li>
	<li>Water from above and put saucers under plants.</li>
	<li>Need watering more in spring and summer, than in winter.</li>
	<li>Water less in winter than in summer when actively growing.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Humidity (Mist)</h3>

<p>Some plants enjoy a daily mist with a hand-held spray. You can also group plants on a tray of damp gravel.</p>

<ul>
	<li>Ferns</li>
	<li>Orchids</li>
	<li>Bromeliads</li>
	<li>Calathea</li>
</ul>

<h3>Holiday watering</h3>

<ul>
	<li>Water all pots before you leave.</li>
	<li>Plants in large pots leave in a shady room.</li>
</ul>

<p>Tips: Smaller plants place in the bath, lined with a towel soaked through. Also you can shade the windows if its quite a sunny spot.</p>

<h3>Feeding</h3>

<ul>
	<li>Flowering plants do best with a weekly dose of feed.</li>
	<li>When moving plants into bigger pots, add a few granules of slow-release fertiliser.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Pruning</h3>

<ul>
	<li>Remove any dying flowersa and any damaged or yellowing leaves.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Cleaning</h3>

<ul>
	<li>You can clean soft wipes or even Baby Bio wipes. Nothing with chemiclals!</li>
</ul>

<h3>Houseplant pests</h3>

<ul>
	<li>Mealy bug or woolly aphids, pests that suck the sap of houseplants. Remove with soft soap (wipe/spray).</li>
	<li>Tiny limpet-like bugs on stems or leaves (scale insect). Remove with soft soap (wipe/spray).</li>
	<li>Fine webbing at the tips of plants and yellow speckling on leaves is a symptom of tiny red spider mites. Remove with soft soap (wipe/spray).</li>
</ul>

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<h1>Bonsai Care</h1>

<p>A few basic rules should enable anyone to take care of its tree properly. Most importantly are watering, fertilization and choosing the right position to place it.</p>

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<h2 itemprop="name">Watering Bonsai trees</h2>

<p>How often a tree needs to be watered: Depends</p>

<ul>
	<li>Species of tree</li>
	<li>Size of tree</li>
	<li>Size of pot</li>
	<li>Time of year</li>
	<li>Soil-mixture</li>
	<li>Climate</li>
</ul>

<h2 itemprop="name">Fertilizing Bonsai</h2>

<p>Fertilizing&nbsp;regularly during the growing season is crucial for your Bonsai to survive.</p>

<h2 itemprop="name">Repotting Bonsai</h2>

<p>To prevent a tree from being:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Pot-bound (starving to death)</li>
	<li>Supply the tree with new nutrients that it needs to grow and flourish (will not keep it small)</li>
</ul>

<h2 itemprop="name">Location</h2>

<p>Best location:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Local climate</li>
	<li>Time of year</li>
	<li>Tree species</li>
</ul>

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