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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

First open the garden, then pour the tea

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Opened our garden on Sunday, for the National Garden Scheme , which for those of you who don’t know it, raises money for charities thr...
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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Olympic Glory

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The North American planting: Echinacea pallida, purpurea and paradoxa. Photo:James Hitchmough Something of an Olympic sceptic (our gove...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Petunias and democracy.....Travels in Kyrgyzstan Part 3

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Bishkek is my first experience of the former Soviet Union (USSR), words drained of real meaning to a younger generation, but for any...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Land of the yurt and the gerbil - Travels in Kyrgyzstan Part Two

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--> Deliriously species-rich meadows above Bokumbaevo; pale yellow is Pedicularis littenovii - a semi-parasite. Friday our...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

Botanical Paradise - Travels in Kyrgyrzstan - part one

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The All-Archa valley national park is only 30mins from Bishkek the capital. Two and a half weeks with no mobile phone or internet conta...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Bristol street life

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  Between 2001 and 2009 I worked on a series of plantings for Bristol City Council, some perennial borders in parks, but mostly rounda...
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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Colourful thoughts about German gardening and art history

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Hermannshof (in Weinheim) in late September Just had a piece in The Daily Telegraph about my long-standing love of the German g...
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