Getting involved with garden projects where there is an aspect of planning involved can be a time consuming but usually an interesting aspect of being a Garden Designer. I spend a good number of hours trawling through the ‘not so intuitive’ Planning Portal, set up by government to make the process far more transparent. One…
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Fur and feathers are flying
Chelsea 2013 heralded the 100th year of the now infamous show down at the river in SW3. Much was made of it in the run up, ticket prices were up significantly but attending numbers were down, probably due to ticket prices jumping by £10 in one year and £16 in the last 3 (that’s a…
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I have an allotment. The main reason was to have somewhere to grow the burgeoning collection of Iris that I was aquiring. Lots of other National Collections are held on public allotments and they certainly provide a nice bit of ground for growing (we have 5 pole plots which is about 100m2). I have a…
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Eeeek I have been a bit lax, some might say busy, I would say a bit caught up in the moment with exhausted patches in between. Ok Doing too much again! A really rather exciting few weeks to be fair and some new experiences and faces too boot. Almost all good too with only one…
Continue ReadingWisely Herbarium
Last Friday I was lucky enough to enter to rarified world of the RHS’s Wisely herbarium. A group organised by the British Iris Society we gathered for a talk by the Head of the Herbarium, Chris . The Herbarium is a rather recent affair, not what one expects to hear from the RHS which to…
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