I’ve been meaning to head to Hyde Hall for longer than I care to share, it’s been on the ever growing list and because it’s not all THAT far away there was a certain level of guilt that I hadn’t made the effort. As we skidded into the end of April, and my looming birthday,…
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TODOS April
Assailed by a never ending list of things todo I keep a master list for garden tasks in the kitchen, mostly scribbled on my latest Gardener’s World calendar but some months it stretches to include post it notes stuck one on top of another. With the arrival of each new magazine ( I get 4…
Continue ReadingDrought and being a bit more waterwise….
So there it is from April 5th we, in the South that is, will be in an official hosepipe ban. Drought has officially hit (21st Feb 2012) due in the main to the drier winters and increasingly warm summers. DEFRA is asking all of us to help by taking shorter showers, 4 mins which to…
Continue ReadingSGD autumn conference
Society of Garden Designers Autumn Conference – What are gardens for? For those that could not attend you missed a goodie! Annoying as that is to hear sometimes it’s just the impulse one needs to get to it next time. I missed Christopher Bradley Hole in March and kicked myself for being slow off the…
Continue ReadingWoottens of Wenhaston
I had spoken to Michael a few months ago about Snow Fiddler an MTB we are searching down for the collection and had been impressed with the monthly (?) emails about plants they have in season, offers and so on. On a trip to Beth Chatto‘s gardens in Colchester we decided to take a detour…
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Planting in Shade
Like those red busses where you have none then 3 come at once so my latest projects all seem to have varying degrees of shade planting required. I have long been a fan of shade so it didn’t fill me with the usual groans I often hear about shady spots. In fact shade is wonderful…
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