Spring came early with many sunny days and little rain.
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I have been taking care of this garden for a couple years now. I am not sure who designed it or built it. I come here on a monthly sche... -
Pruning the roots of this Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) specimen. First tease out the roots with a hook and trim ... -
Our garden tour is this Saturday. Here's the plant list for our white garden at Piccolo Fiume in Little River, California: Rosa rugo... -
The goal of this garden is to have an ever constant flora display, twelve months a year. It is a challenge at times but the lady of the ho...
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In A Vase On Monday - It's All About the Base - Many thanks to the dedicated and talented Cathy from Rambling in the Garden, host of In a Vase on Monday. Do click here to see what others are plunking in ...
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Edibles, outdoor living, and more at Sunset Gardens at Cornerstone Sonoma - While touring the Cornerstone Sonoma gardens in Sonoma, California, a couple of weeks ago, I enjoyed a two-fer. Sunset’s Test Gardens relocated to Corner...4 hours ago
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Austin: the epoch ends - Earlier this week I had to say goodbye to Austin, who was the eldest of my four cats. Austin, named after Austin Powers by my children, has always been a ...
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Prosilio, 2017 - Yesterday the whole of the left side of the house shook with a large noise. Needless to say it was an earthquake. In all the 24 years I have been...1 day ago
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HATFIELD – AIRBRUSHED OUT……. - No, I didn’t get out of bed the wrong side this morning, and I’m not usually this grumpy, but the gardens of Hatfield House have turned out to be a great...4 days ago
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Thank you Edward - Yesterday I had to thank Edward for a great summer, he has gone on to work in Her Majesty’s tax office, that is what he has a first class degree in. I have...4 days ago
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August Harvest, Containers and Announcing My New Book in the Works - Containers on the deck have been rearranged, something I like to do in mid-summer as some containers begin to fade. Always on the lookout for odd combinat...
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Garden Bloggers BloomDay August 2017 - August is typically one of my least favorite months in the garden , featuring among other things the toll of months of no rain and chronic flopping behav...
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3 natural wonders to see while eclipse hunting in Oregon - So you’ve finalized your travel plans for #SolarEclipse2017, procured your fancy glasses, and kept up on the most important news updates. Now what? If your...6 days ago
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The Things We Do for Love (of Plants) - We just returned from our week at the Jersey shore, where I was crestfallen to find out that cycling 30+ miles a day does not negate the effects of IPA ov...
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Baffled by my Brugmansia - Right from the beginning of this season, my beautiful and nearly four metre high, five-year old Brugmansia – also known as Angel’s Trumpet – has had not s...1 week ago
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Flowers in the Fish Factory - On a recent holiday to Sweden, we were lucky enough to stay in a unique bed and breakfast at Edshultshall on Western Sweden’s wild coast. Ladfabriken (as t...
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A Good Year for Fennel - The fennel in the kitchen garden has been especially good this year, large, rounded bulbs that never bolted, tender and sweetly anise-flavored. Perhaps our...4 weeks ago
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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...3 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...3 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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1 i 2 kwietnia Ogród Bellingham w TRÓJMIEŚCIE. - W marcu ogrodnicy zaczynają działać. I to ostro! Nagle na niebie widać upragnione słońce i wiaterek wydaje się cieplejszy. Na niektórych drzewach i krze...
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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...7 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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