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Monthly Archives: September 2011
A unique quandary
I was lucky enough to receive several Pelargonium cultivars through the Plant Heritage Plant Exchange this year. (Rare plants for free! but only if you are a member..) This was received as Pelargonium ‘Unique Aurora’, and doesn’t quite match the … Continue reading
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Indian Summer
Although, strictly speaking, this isn’t an Indian Summer (according to Radio 4 this morning, there has to have been a frost for it to count as an IS), it’s jolly welcome, and we couldn’t let the day go past without … Continue reading
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Tagged Loseley Park
NC of Asters (autumn flowering) Picton Garden – visit
With Susan Barley of NFU Mutual (PH generous sponsors since 2003), I was given the most learned and interesting tour of Picton Garden in Malvern, which houses the superb National Collection of autumn flowering asters. Susan and I were amazed by … Continue reading
Full of GLEE – Wednesday 22nd September
I was full of mild intrepidation as I drove up to NEC Birmingham last Wednesday to once again attend the Horticultural Trade Show – that is GLEE! But once inside the huge halls at NEC, I was greeted so warmly … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosmere, GLEE, Hozelock, Johnsons Seeds, Vital Earth
Anemones and asters
Quick visit to Avondale Nursery on the way back from a wet weekend in the Lakes to pick up two Anemone ‘Geante des blanc’ for Anemone Margaret. Despite the dull weather the garden looked gorgeous, all late summer colour and … Continue reading
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Helmingham Ho!
Yesterday I drove up to Suffolk for the Suffolk Group‘s Autumn Plant Fair at Helmingham Hall. The weather forecast had been a bit iffy in the week leading up, but someone clearly put in a word in the right quarter … Continue reading
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The shows go on
From RHS Cardiff in April through to Journees Des Plantes De Courson in October, via Chelsea, NEC Gardeners Live, RHS Hampton Court and Tatton Park, 2 Malverns, 2 Harrogates, 2 Harlow Carrs, Ayr, Shrewsbury, Sandringham, Southport, Gardening Scotland, and a few others … Continue reading
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Tagged Agapanthus, Auricula, Canna, Digitalis, Hartcanna, Heuchera, Hosta, Hoyland Plants, Lockyer, Mickfield Hostas, National Collection, National Plant Collection, Passiflora, Plantagogo, Rhodohypoxis, Tale Valley Nursery, The Botanic Nursery, Thunbergia, Tynings Climbers
Library perk
Does anyone grow asters anymore? I don’t mean the hardy perennial ones; there are currently six National Collections of those listed in the Directory. No, I mean the half hardy annual ones which seem to have been grown by great … Continue reading
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Just one day
New Collection Holder, Pollie Maasz was one of the stars of the Plant Heritage Marquee at this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show with her eccentric daylilies and their even more eccentric names. Pollie has more than 1400 hundred different … Continue reading
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Gingerly does it..
It felt like (according to the BBC) that this was going to be the last nice weekend for a while. So where better to spend it than under glass? It is a couple of years since I have been to … Continue reading
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