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Monday, 16 August 2010
Front garden makeover
I've been a bit remiss in keeping up the garden's blog - but then the Chelsea Flower Show blog and the Hampton Court blog saw plenty of action.
Well, I ventured out into the front garden and did a bit of landscaping and remodelling so watch this space for pictures when I finish it.
Well, I ventured out into the front garden and did a bit of landscaping and remodelling so watch this space for pictures when I finish it.
Monday, 5 July 2010
Hampton Court Flower Show
Check out my coverage of Hampton Court Palace Flower Show on http://hamptoncourtflowershow.blogspot.com/
Thursday, 3 June 2010
From one blog to another...
My scribblings for this year's Chelsea Flower Show are at an end. You can trawl through the archive here
Alternatively, you can now start following my coverage of Hampton Court Palace Flower Show which takes on a Shakesperean theme.
Alternatively, you can now start following my coverage of Hampton Court Palace Flower Show which takes on a Shakesperean theme.
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Vote now!
Place your vote in the Chelsea Flower Show People's Choice Award, where you the viewing public get the chance to say which show garden you thought was top at this year's show.
My vote will be for the Roger Platts designed M&G Garden - a picturesque, traditionally British affair that has clever planting which enables the garden to look interesting in all light and weather.
The wooden structures and the circular pool provide a perfect backdrop for the flowers, shrubs and hedging.
Two of my colleagues have called me a "traditionalist" and a "plant hippie". That's not so - in the Small Garden category, my vote goes to A Joy forever, a contemporary sunken garden which has been designed for entertaining.
Let's face it - we would all like either of these in our back gardens!
Follow my Chelsea blog here
My vote will be for the Roger Platts designed M&G Garden - a picturesque, traditionally British affair that has clever planting which enables the garden to look interesting in all light and weather.
The wooden structures and the circular pool provide a perfect backdrop for the flowers, shrubs and hedging.
Two of my colleagues have called me a "traditionalist" and a "plant hippie". That's not so - in the Small Garden category, my vote goes to A Joy forever, a contemporary sunken garden which has been designed for entertaining.
Let's face it - we would all like either of these in our back gardens!
Follow my Chelsea blog here
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
It's Chelsea
I don't mean football - it's show time at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Check out my posts for the show at chelseaflowershow.blogspot.com
Check out my posts for the show at chelseaflowershow.blogspot.com
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Pretty in pieris
It seems odd to get into May and find the Pieris only just coming into their own - but I have a couple of stunners lighting up a dark corner on the patio underneath my dwarf cherry tree. I suppose that's what we can now expect with our changing climate.
I have to keep them in pots since the clay in the garden is such an inhibitor of growth that I have to provide all the plants' nutrients artificially with heaps of ericaceous compost. I also have a lovely peach coloured azalea which gets a similar treatment.
I have to keep them in pots since the clay in the garden is such an inhibitor of growth that I have to provide all the plants' nutrients artificially with heaps of ericaceous compost. I also have a lovely peach coloured azalea which gets a similar treatment.
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