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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 ... -
Beth's garden is known for it's dry and wet section. She describes it as "poor gravel soil and boggy hollows." The Engl... -
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This Winter has been warm. It started off dry but more rain has arrived toward the end. Spring has been warm, sunny with moisture in the ...
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In a Vase on Monday - Eggxactly What the Doctor Ordered - It's spring and this weekend was blessedly bereft of precipitation. The sun even made several appearances and our highs neared sixty. The coming week wil...
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Woodland plants – the highlights - A round up of last night’s #woodlandplants challenge by #wildflowerhour co-leader Rebecca Wheeler.13 hours ago
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The Boat Garden Update. Sunday 22nd April. #Heatwave - Flash and I are just one week shy of having been aboard the good ship Casper for six months. The seed orders are slowing right down now and we will very so...1 day ago
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It's Spring so Lets Go to Annies ! - Most years I take my spring road trip in April and my first Annies run happens in March. It kind of amuses me to see how my routine was disrupted just bec...
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Glorious wildflowers and agaves in Jenny Stocker’s garden - Spring in Austin is glorious this year, and especially so in my friend Jenny Stocker’s garden. The Rock Rose blogger cultivates a gravel garden of mostly...3 days ago
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Mayflowers, Preserving Our Native Plants and A New Book Arrives Just In Time - A new book arrives for gardeners interested in native plants - just in time for spring (if spring ever arrives!) If you're like me, you are waiting and wa...
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The power of bees - In her travels with farmers, gardeners, and scientists, Paige Embry examines the vital role these pollinators play. Along the way, she hunts for a bumble b...5 days ago
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Brugmansia Babies - I can’t claim to have any climatic foresight, but last autumn I decided to take cuttings from the brugmansia that I had successfully overwintered outdoors ...1 week ago
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Oregon: Moss, Ocean, Sunset and No Selfie Sticks! - Almost Wordless Wednesday: several pictures from our Eugene-Oregon Coast trip. Oregon coast is one of my favorite places to visit. Beginning of April: awa...
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True Believers - Walking by one of my troughs the other day I wondered what the hell I saw out of the corner of my eye. Turns out it was the new buds of *pulsatilla prate...
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Early Spring Salads - The early spring kitchen garden continues to offer salad greens from the sturdy plants that provided greens throughout the winter. Arugula, red mustard and...2 weeks ago
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Wielkanoc 2018 ... pomysły na wykonanie naturalnych dekoracji - Nadeszła Wielkanoc. Dla ogrodników to szczególny czas - ponieważ Wielkanoc oznacza wiosnę! :-) Dodatkowo to pierwsza po Bożym Narodzeniu szansa na robó...
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Master Gardener Plant Sale Coming Up April 21, 2018 - Each year the Master Gardeners of San Mateo and San Francisco counties has a spring plant sale and educational fair. This is their 9th year! The event will...3 weeks ago
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Holker Hall Cumbria – A Disconbobulated Garden - Sometimes I want to say something about a garden but I grapple with it, try and pin it down, think I’ve got it beat, only to find it is pulling me toward...4 weeks ago
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14th March, 2018 - You have not heard from me for a long time, as I have been in hospital with pneumonia. Anyway I am back at home and feeling a lot better, and after all the...5 weeks ago
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21 - 21 Christmas’s ago Christopher gave me a five year dairy and told me that while I lived at Great Dixter I had to write in it daily and this past Christmas ...3 months ago
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Plant of the Year 2017: Narcissus 'Thalia' - *Narcissus* 'Thalia'In selecting plants of the year my usual thought has been to nominate something that gives a long season of interest, but this year I...
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Noerenberg Memorial Gardens - Noerenberg Memorial Gardens, formerly a private family estate, was created after a tragic loss. After losing their daughter, the Noerenberg family demolish...6 months 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...11 months ago
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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...1 year 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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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!2 years 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...2 years 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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