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  <title><![CDATA[Cedar Pathfield]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Cedar Pathfield offers garden design, paving, drainage, and planting in Nottinghamshire. Honest groundwork, small crew, real site visits. Call +81 3-3353-4281.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Fix a Waterlogged Garden Properly]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A garden that holds water after rain is not just an inconvenience. Over time, standing water kills grass roots, rots fence posts, and makes a patio unusable for half the year. The frustrating thing is that most waterlogging problems are fixable, but only if you identify the right cause first. Throwing a soakaway at a compaction problem will not help. Regrading a patio will not fix a high water table. Here is how to read what is actually happening.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-04</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Choosing Natural Stone for Garden Paving]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Natural stone paving is one of those things that looks straightforward until you start looking at samples. There are dozens of types, several finishes, and a significant difference in quality between suppliers. We have been laying natural stone since 2014 and we have made enough mistakes along the way to know what to look for and what to avoid.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-12</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Establishing a New Lawn from Turf: What Actually Works]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A new turf lawn looks good the day it goes down. Whether it looks good in six months depends almost entirely on what happened before the turf arrived. We have laid a lot of lawns since 2014 and the ones that have failed, or needed remedial work, have almost always failed because of what was under the turf rather than the turf itself.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-22</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Perennial Planting for Dry East Midlands Summers]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The last three summers in the East Midlands have been drier than the long-term average. Not dramatically so, but enough that plants which used to perform reliably in average conditions have started to struggle. We have been keeping notes on what has done well and what has not across the gardens we maintain and visit, and the picture is fairly consistent.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-07-01</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fence Post Installation: Why Most Fences Fail Early]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A timber fence is only as good as its posts. We see a lot of fences that have failed within five to eight years, and in almost every case the failure is at the post, not the panel. The panel rots or blows out because the post has moved, rotted at ground level, or was never set deep enough to resist the wind load. None of this is complicated to get right, but it requires doing a few things that take a bit more time and cost a bit more money.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-15</pubDate>
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