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September 5, 2010 | Best/worst front garden collection expanded a little

I have been a little too  terse with the best/worst front garden collection.  A bit of explanation is required.  In towns and villages   a front garden is public.  Yes, they go with the house but are shared with the passers by who might lob their rubbish in,  help themselves to the owner’s plants or [...]

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September 4, 2010 | Celebrity pin up

WHO?          Carol Klein

WHY?          Artist and plantswoman extraordinaire.

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September 3, 2010 | Plantaholic Post

Rosa x odorata ‘Viridiflora’.  This rose would go well with either pistachio ice-cream or a dark red flowering clematis such as Ville de Lyons or Niobe. It is truly green, climbs in a moderate way and has no petals but sepals instead.  Some say it is ugly.  I don’t agree.

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September 2, 2010 | Il Sacro Bosco. The Garden of Dreams.

Il Sacro Bosco is a wierd and perplexing garden set in a ravine below the town of Bomarzo in the Sabine Hills.  The Orsini palace, scowling above, is built on an outcrop of tufa,  the local volcanic rock.  Below it, hidden in a fold of the land,  a collection of giant statues carved out of [...]

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