GARDENING

British Garden Centres
23rd January 2026
3 mins read

British Garden Centres’ Best Plants for Thoughtful Gifting

Thoughtful gifting is having a quiet revolution. Instead of a bunch of cut flowers that look glorious for a week and then fade, more shoppers are choosing living plants — presents that keep growing, keep flowering and keep giving long after the wrapping paper is gone. It is a trend that feels both personal…
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Copper and Green
16th May 2025
1 min read

Celebrate World Bee Day with Copper & Green’s Handcrafted Copper Bee Drinkers – A Gift for Nature’s Hardest Workers

With World Bee Day on 20th May fast approaching, it’s time to shine a spotlight on one of nature’s most essential, yet often overlooked, Heroes: the bee. These tireless pollinators are behind more than 75% of the world’s food crop production and are vital to preserving global biodiversity. In honour of their indispensable role,…
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The Arium
16th May 2025
1 min read

How a Potting Robot is Brightening Leeds’ Streets

A state-of-the-art potting robot at The Arium is preparing two million spring and summer plants to brighten streets and public spaces across Leeds. The Arium, run by Leeds City Council, is the largest local authority garden centre and plant nursery in the UK. Most of the plants sold and displayed across the city are…
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Leeds Bin App
18th December 2017
2 mins read

Annual Christmas bin collection changes

Waste and recycling bin collection changes are to take place over the Christmas and new year period. Collections will take place up until and including Christmas Eve – Sunday 24 December. Bins scheduled to be emptied on Christmas day will instead be emptied the day before on Christmas Eve. Otherwise all other collections will…
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Garden waste
13th November 2017
1 min read

Garden waste collection to pause for the winter months

It’s getting to that time of year again to do the final touches to your garden as the garden waste collection service in Leeds goes into hibernation in early December. The last day for brown bin collections will be Saturday 2 December and the service will resume again on Monday 26 February. If you…
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Leeds, Leeds Star
21st February 2017
1 min read

Green shoots of spring as Leeds garden waste collections return

It’s a sure sign that spring is on the way as garden waste collections re-start in Leeds on February 27. More information about garden waste collection days and what is and isn’t acceptable to put in your brown bin can be found here: brown bin garden waste You can also download the Leeds bin app…
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Leeds, Leeds Star
19th December 2016
2 mins read

Christmas bin collections all wrapped up

Hark! The refuse service sing – check the right day to put out your bin. That is the message from Leeds City Council as Christmas approaches. Bins will be collected as normal until and including Christmas Eve. Then between Monday 26 December and Sunday 8 January bins will be emptied either one or two…
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