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Monday, August 25, 2014

August is a messy month

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The view above is from our bedroom window, earlier in August. Much the same now except the day lilies have gone over. It seems t...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Raised Beds - Trendy Nonsense in the Vegetable Garden?

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“Why” asked the rather acerbic Dutchman I was talking to, “are so many British vegetable gardeners disabled?”. A biza...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

The aliens might be coming

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Rhododendron x superponticum - beautifully strangling a lakeside at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Whether it is kudzu vine strang...
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Friday, July 4, 2014

Telling the story of UK naturalistic planting to Japan

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        I was asked recently to write a piece summarising the recent history of naturalistic planting in Britain for the Royal Hortic...
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Thursday, June 26, 2014

Weeding the Countryside?

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Spotted orchids en masse, I wish I understood how and why they spread Following on from my last post about weeding the garden, sp...
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Sunday, June 1, 2014

On the attack - early summer weeding

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A day spent in the garden – weeding. Having been away for 2 weeks there is a lot to do at this time of year. This is the crucial pe...
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Land of the balsam-root, blue camas, and housing sprawl

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Balsamorhiza sagittata and an Eriophorum sp. on Rowena Bluffs, OR.  Spending two weeks in the USA. Mostly in the Pacific North ...