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Plant Collecting or Clutter?

Posted on September 29, 2022September 29, 2022 by RosewarneGardens

I have a bit of a collecting habit, for plants that is. I love plants almost to the exclusion of all else and consequently find myself seeking out those rarities and commoners that I want to grow, and then adding their friends and other finds along the way. Why grow one colour when you can…

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Allotmenteering

Posted on March 17, 2020March 17, 2020 by RosewarneGardens

Almost 10 years ago I took on a rather weedy overgrown allotment plot, no.25. It’s down at the bottom of the plot of about 100 allotments. Shaded until around 11am by a huge hawthorn hedge the council never seem to cut back at the top, so on the sides it is thin and gappy. I…

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Plants: Grape Vines

Posted on July 20, 2018October 23, 2022 by RosewarneGardens

More than a little chuffed and excited with the grapevine this year. It’s 4 th year here and thus far a tiny bunch has appeared each of the previous 2 years. This year it’s COVERED in grapes. I’ve pruned back in Spring per @themontydon instructions, 2 bunches per vertical, 3 leaf intersections. But it still…

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Recipe: Green tomato chutney

Posted on August 23, 2017August 23, 2017 by RosewarneGardens

You know the old saying ‘when life gives you lemons….make lemonade‘ well when nature hands you a series of Mill’s periods* resulting in a surge of tomato blight you make a plethora of Green tomato chutney. Ingredients: 2.5kg green tomatoes (if a few red/orange ones go in so much the better) 500g onions (2-3 large…

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Recipe – Red Currant Jelly

Posted on February 13, 2017 by RosewarneGardens

I always have great plans for preserves and jamming as much of my produce and foraging as possible as the seasons roll around but last year everything well to hell in a hand basket as life stopped for our RHS Tatton Show Garden. In theory it was only July but in practice it was most…

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7 rewarding later summer perennial plants

Posted on August 9, 2015August 25, 2015 by RosewarneGardens

Later-ish summer perennials that go on flowering and flowering are a bonus for the gardener and for the wildlife feeding and foraging in our green spaces. The light begins to change a we head towards Autumn and the golden hues are embellished by the shift in light quality. Richer, a bit more saturated, a touch…

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TODOS – May

Posted on May 20, 2015 by RosewarneGardens

Yet another frantic month, but soon we can sit back with a glass of something cool and admire the results of the last couple of back breaking months. May however is not that month…. Even though a tad on the chilly side this month is a frenzy of annual flower seed planting and planting out…

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Crimson Flowered Broad Bean

TODOS – April

Posted on April 14, 2015April 14, 2015 by RosewarneGardens

March screeched to an end and then the wind howled around the house for what seemed like an age. Spring seemed in full retreat until late last week, now it’s back in force. Of course the risk here is those of us growing seedlings inside are lulled into a false sense of security and send…

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TODOS March

Posted on March 1, 2015 by RosewarneGardens

I hope your February was as busy as mine? pruning Wisteria, completing winter prunes on the Apple and Pear family, including quinces there. Chopping back herbaceous perennials that withstood the winter weather. Asters, hardy Fuschia, ornamental grasses, taking a weeping Caryopteris back to the bone, Ceratostigma to the ground, tidying the Helleborus orientalis leaves, I…

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Dahlia

Posted on August 31, 2014January 30, 2015 by RosewarneGardens

August, well almost September is the time of Dahlia’s big and blousey through to pom pom and petite.  They are making a come back into gardens and editorials but really for some have never been out of favour. The late summer blaze of colour and exuberance is completely captivating and the more you deadhead the more…

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