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Okay here comes another entry for the beauty that awaits you on this summer's English garden tour 2014. Drumroll please… Hidcote. Hidcot...
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We stumbled upon this garden on our way to visit Avon Bulb Nursery. We found out about Avon at The Chelsea Garden Show and decided ... -
Pruning the roots of this Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) specimen. First tease out the roots with a hook and trim ... -
This charming garden was the first proper garden on our tour. After seeing Chelsea Garden Show, Kew and Hyde Park in London, we hired a... -
Frank, Jeannine and I drove to Filoli House and Garden down in Edgewood on the Peninsula. We arrived on a perfectly warm sunny day in Ca...
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Mark Henry's Garden - "In'town 'Italian-style' garden found behind privet hedge and entered by gothic gate." Even though there was a green NPA Open sign on the gate, I felt ...
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Regent’s Park 2 – The Secret Garden – Calm and Tranquility - I have on many occasions thought of writing a review about The Secret Garden but then it wouldn’t be secret anymore and do I really want more people to k...2 days ago
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Botanical Treasures in Patsy Highberg's Vermont Idyll - A lily pool in the Vermont garden on Patsy Highberg, a noted plantswoman, alpine plant enthusiast and local philanthropist who's garden is occasionally on...
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Mid-September Good Things - Summer seems to have moved on without the normal 6 weeks of heat with no rain. It's been dry, but not terribly so, and relatively cool. The garden and I...
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Evergreen combos (mostly) for Austin - A local reader asked me about evergreen plants that grow well here in central Texas, and as I was putting together today’s Foliage Follow-Up post, I real...4 days ago
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Hydrangeas – Beyond the Mop Head - I recently had the great pleasure of spending three hours walking round the garden of the 82 year old hydrangea expert and breeder, Maurice Foster. Despite...4 days ago
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Halfway to Heaven in Folkestone - Not quite a garden, but this website has done graveyards before so we’ve got form. And besides, this is amazing. It feels so secret and magical, that even ...6 days ago
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My August-2017 Garden - September is gaining speed, so I'd better post my garden's August pictures. This was a different August. Summer came later than usual this year as everythi...
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Late Summer at The Ruth Bancroft Garden - This weekend was the big fall plant sale at The Ruth Bancroft Garden-an event that has typically occurred in October. However this year the nursery sales...
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Will the real Laura Ingalls Wilder please stand up? - North and east of Pepin, the mix of trees changed to the boreal forest that sweeps far into Canada. Here the conifers—pine, tamarack, and spruce—go to the ...2 weeks ago
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Beans and Tomatoes - As summer turns toward fall, the kitchen garden is providing an abundance of beautiful beans and tomatoes. The simplest preparation of these two stars of t...3 weeks ago
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Naturalistyczne rabaty 'dla motyli i ptaków' w stylu preriowym - nowy dodatek do naszego ogrodu :-) - Witam wszystkich bardzo bardzo serdecznie ... tak dawno nie pisałam, że sama nie wiem gdzie zacząć nadganianie zaległości. Chyba przede wszystkim p...
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Top picks at RHS Hampton Court 2017 - The exhibit that really caught my eye at this year's RHS Hampton Court Flower Show was "The Charleston Garden" (above) - one of three very different 'pott...
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A New Film from Sissinghurst - Film making is a slow process but here, at last, is our second Sissinghurst film. This time it’s about the wonderful collection of irises we have in the ga...4 months ago
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Sowing Annual Flowers. Late April Update. - The seed selling season has peaked…normality is returning to Higgledy Towers…well….our own special version of normality. The first four months is when I do...4 months ago
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Cherry Tree Arboretum - *Magnolia* 'Shirazz'On Saturday Alastair and I went to Cherry Tree Arboretum on the Shropshire/Cheshire border near Woore. This is the private collection ...
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Winter Finery – Bright Spots on Dull Days - We love the soft light of winter and how it shows almost everything to advantage. In the shot above, conifers, yucca and the lingering leaves of a mix of d...8 months ago
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Journal: Conquering Table Mountain - The impressive cliffs of Table Mountain rise above Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, with Skeleton Gorge on the left Photos - Kirsten Honeyman, unless indicat...
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Eloise Butler Garden - Our first stop on the Minneapolis Garden Bloggers Fling was at the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary. Coming from California this garden l...1 year ago
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Spring Events -- Come Out and Join Us! - We are excited to be included in some fantastic events this spring - and we would love to see you there!1 year ago
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The Unexpected Garden Tour - I love finding the unexpected. Last summer in 2015, I went on the Snohomish Garden Tour in the historic district. I was pleasantly surprised to find so...
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A new garden in a new(ish) house. - Landscaping needs to be done with an eye to the future! I have just finished a design for a client for his 2 year old house and we are excited about how mu...
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Family and……. - A little while since I have visited this blog. At present not in a good place after four months of caring for my Mother after she was diagnosed with lung c...1 year ago
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Mud to meadow in (not) many months - I was asked to make a meadow that wouldn’t require regular mowing/maintenance, so my client could enjoy his weekends away rather than spend most of his t...3 years ago
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