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10 hours ago by myenglishcountrygarden

…lavender’s green When you have taken 500 cuttings You shall be…exhausted ;-) …to paraphrase the old nursery rhyme, here shown above in the version from The Baby’s Opera illustrated by our friend Walter Crane. I’ve done it. It’s taken three days on and off but I’ve finally taken 500 cuttings of lave ...

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1 day ago by myenglishcountrygarden

…It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance. So said Jane Austen in a letter to her sister Cassandra written on the 18th September, 1796. I entirely sympathise, Madam. We are having a similar season of weather : the heat and most awfully the humidity has been high and constant which is unusual ...

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6 days ago by barbaracuerden

Construction continues around my garden plots. I’ve noticed that the security lights blaze orange at night and that the garden box nearest the security light on one side of the road, and the side of the wheatfield closest to the security light on the other side of the road, are underdeveloped. [...]

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7 days ago by jbross

Written by Jeff Non-GOTM pictures credited by hover notes – move cursor over image Here is a way to use welded iron mesh and moderate materials to create a growing trellis that is functional and nice to look at; especially when plants are covering it. http://www.digginfood.com/2009/03/inexpensive-di ...

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7 days ago by myenglishcountrygarden

Mary Crawford knew a good thing when she saw it. Tom Bertram must have been thought pleasant, indeed, at any rate; he was the sort of young man to be generally liked, his agreeableness was of the kind to be oftener found agreeable than some endowments of a higher stamp, for he had easy manners, exce ...

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13 days ago by myenglishcountrygarden

But is white a colour? Hmm….I digress….. White dominates in the main garden at this time of the year. Some of the white comes from a venerable old Edwardian lady, Yvonne Rabier, a polyantha rose introduced in 1910. She sits in the border by the Chinese Chippendale bench. She is supposed to be fragra ...

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15 days ago by myenglishcountrygarden

To complete showing you the display of roses at their peak in the garden, I thought I ought to write about the four weeping standards of Alberic Barbier in now full bloom. I’ve waxed lyrical about this rose before, but it really is magnificent and I think admirably suited to use as a weeping standar ...

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18 days ago by myenglishcountrygarden

…is also at a peak at the moment…unlike the old Roses Garden these roses repeat if dead headed( a long job but one I can actually do!)and the lavender doesn’t come into flower until the end of June, so it does have a longer period of interest…. I’ve added a few hollyhocks, but not by any means enoug ...

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20 days ago by myenglishcountrygarden

This is fast becoming one of the most special places in the garden for me. It has been planned in a totally haphazard way, but its finally beginning to work. The Crab Apples are beginning to create an arcade effect-making the two different parts of the garden-the inner and the outer, have a really d ...

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24 days ago by barbaracuerden

As this is a thesis project requiring multiple perspectives, I have been very lucky to engage the attention of two participant/collaborators. I’m calling them able gardener 1 and able gardener 2. I am looking for another able gardener # 3, who will together with myself (principle researcher) make fo ...

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