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June 1, 2010 | Celebrity pin up

WHO?    BETH CHATTO

WHY?     As Vidal Sassoon was to hairdos so Beth Chatto is to the garden.

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May 20, 2010 | Victorianarama at Chelsea

detail of peacock tail by Maggy Howarth

Cattleya Orchid and 3 Hummingbirds. 1871 oil on panel MJ Heade. c National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Victorian influences will converge at the Chelsea Flower Show next week.  The Royal Horticultural Society was given its charter by Prince Albert in 1861.  The forerunner of Chelsea,  the Great Spring Show, was held that [...]

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May 15, 2010 | Tulip embarrassment strikes again

Oh no what has happened here?    The tulip called Helmar is very, very yellow but wide slashes of raspberry ripple tone it down. Planted with maroon Tulipa Jan Reus, the raspberry and marroon sing together.  I  visited this customer yesterday and instead of Jan Reus, the wholesaler has given us the black tulip, Queen [...]

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May 15, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY

Lovely ploughed field in Suffolk.

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May 11, 2010 | Plantaholic Post

Lovely peony with joke name Paeonia mlokosewitchii transcendental in Sunday’s rain.  Less yellow than usual.

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May 10, 2010 | So this is it - off to see the Bishop in Kent

Loved the Bish who presided over a long confirmation service in a very plain Edwardian Church.  We are  deep in Kent.  A bit of  a long one before the promised cuppa and cake back at my old school.  Lady in front, dressed to kill in fabulous pink coat with nails and specs matching,  was studying [...]

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May 10, 2010 | Trilliums run riot in nut grove

Taking over along with white bluebulls, regal fern and our ladies bed straw.  Superb ground cover at Sissinghurst

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May 6, 2010 | Plantaholic Post

This is Omphalodes cappadocica ‘Cherry Ingram’.  Lucky her,  I would love to have this sparkling blue patch of woodland flower named after me.

Seen at the RHS garden called Hyde Hall earlier this week – I had gone on a recce of rose pruning but found the woodland planting much more enticing.

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May 4, 2010 | The extent of the tragedy

This tree is – or was – my friend Panda’s prize possession.  The tree – a 300 year old copper beech – was in her view – framing the river and water meadows below her house.  It also stabilised the bank but came crashing down in the winds this past weekend.  From the picture she [...]

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May 3, 2010 | In praise of cardboard

Our vegetable patch is 2 winter’s old.  We went for the 1.2  metre wide beds (a la Joy Larcomb)  but lack of funds meant that the basketweave paths were put on the backburner.    And so we cut out 5 or 6 beds with paths dividing them and instead of the brick ,  grass paths. [...]

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