‘At Heartwood Forest near Sandridge, St Albans, the creation of England’s largest new native forest is well underway. We have ambitious plans to create an 858 acre woodland with a total of 600,000 newly planted trees, all planted by volunteers. There will also be a community orchard, new wildflower meadows, open spaces and miles of footpaths and bridleways ...
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The lovely people at Palmstead Nurseries in Kent delivered our plants on Friday 4 March 2011 and we were able to get started. We used all the compost in the compost heap to enrich the soil then got to work setting plants out and planting up. I encourage planting with my clients and today the three of us were able to enrich the soil, set out and plant up in four...
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Reading bulb catalogues in January is pure escapism! I received catalogues from Bloms Bulbs and Avon Bulbs through the post this weekend and I’ve been totally taken in with the dream of growing perfect plants, heady with scent and rich in colour. While I was drooling over lilies, Lilium nepalense caught my eye; it has maroon and chartreuse nodding flowers, 80cm...
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This driveway slopes down towards a north facing front door but the myriad of underground pipes prevented planting straight into the ground. However, this still allowed us to delight in winter planting! I wanted to create a clear, inviting pedestrian entrance point at the front of the house to counter-act the downward slope and lift our eyes upwards again. Taking into...
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Some images from my garden taken today in patches of rare, but uplifting sunshine. Click here to open the gallery.Powered by Cincopa wp content plugins solution for your website and Cincopa MediaSend for file transfer.
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The roses in my garden – and everyone else’s – are looking wonderful this year! I think it may be a combination of a wet summer last year so they made good root growth, a sustained cold period over the winter that killed off more green fly than usual, and lovey sunny weather now!...
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Looking the other way at the same garden! White Tulipa Purissima, very dark purple Queen of the Night, sugary China Pink and deep plum Negrita. I like to work with contrasts and shading so some plants are set to be striking, while others are planted to show depth of colour by association. Photo taken 27 April 2010
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Here are the same Tulipa Purissima, still looking good fully opened and blousey! Shown here with the very dark purple Tulipa ‘Queen of the Night’, plum coloured Tulipa ‘Negrita’ and light pink Tulipa ‘China Pink’. The bronze new growth of the paeony ties in with the Phormium ‘Bronze Baby’. Photo taken 27 April...
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