Probably not the most glamorous of tasks completed each year but one worth investing some time and elbow grease in is cleaning stuff. That’s cleaning your tools , soaping down your green house and/or cold frame, repairing wheelbarrows and equipment and emptying out “The Readies” from the compost heap. Winter is a good time for…
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RHS Seed list 2012
The RHS process a diverse range of seeds from plants cultivated in their gardens. The list is extensive, i.e pages and pages and pages long and has all manner of things from simple Bidens to magnificent Betula (yes of the tree variety!) A couple of years ago I bought about 20 packets completely forgot about…
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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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Hybridising Iris
We have had a collection of beautiful little Miniature Tall Bearded Iris for about 2.5 years now and this year we are doing so hybridising, just for fun to see what we can cross and create, if anything. We have some unknown hybrids from last year that have bloomed, but they are temperamental things and…
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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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After learning about the National Plant Specification resource at college it had been assigned to the ‘someday when it can be afforded’ box – currently £156+VAT subscription then £99+VAT PA thereafter What is the NPS? “The updated National Plant Specification takes the guesswork out of plant selection and procurement by providing a comprehensive and accurate…
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REFLECTIONS UPON A GARDEN VISIT – written for the SGD student writing competition 2010. The Dorothy Clive Garden, Shropshire Shropshire is glorious country. Far enough off the beaten track to be truly unspoiled but filled with and close to, so many enticing garden greats that an offer of the use of a small, well appointed manor…
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