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Baker’s Dozen?
The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens currently holds twelve National Plant Collections, providing interest throughout the year. For our visit to the garden the ‘Members’ Weekend’ crew were divided into four groups each one to be led by a garden expert. … Continue reading
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Tagged agm, Natiional Plant Collection, National Collection, The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens & Arboretum
Shop till you drop
After our trip around the Water Garden, we had the opportunity to visit the Longstock Nursery, home of two National Plant Collections (Buddleja and Clematis viticella) and the Hampshire Group May Plant Fair. Although the season wasn’t right to see the … Continue reading
Mount Edgcumbe
A few miles from Antony and across the foot passenger ferry from Portsmouth to Cremyll is another National Collection of Camellia at Mount Edgcumbe. On our recent walking trip in the area the route took us through the grounds of … Continue reading
Antony
Just into Cornwall, across the chain ferry from Plymouth, lies the National Trust property Antony, home of the Carew Pole family. It is also home to two National Plant Collections: Hemerocallis in the summer borders of the house garden and … Continue reading
Abigail’s garden
Heathers, along with the Three Day Week, loons and Demis Roussos, are redolent of the late 60s and 70s, and like Dahlias and grasses before them, are due a revival. A visit to the National Collections of Heathers at RHS Wisley could provide … Continue reading
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Tagged Alys Fowler, Calluna, Daboecia, Erica, Heather, National Collection, National Plant Collection, RHS Wisley
Splitters and lumpers
Taxonomically a ‘splitter’ creates new categories based on the differences between plants whereas a ‘lumper’ groups plants by their similarities assuming them to be more important than the differences. Mike Byford, National Collection Holder of Helleborus species is on the side … Continue reading
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Tagged hellebores, Helleborus, Mike Byford, National Collection, National Plant Collection
Jayne’s Day Job
Jayne Newman is one of our regular volunteers in the office here at Loseley Park and has been doing sterling work with Joanna and Vicky on the schedule of Open Days to celebrate our 35th birthday. However her ‘day job’ … Continue reading
Lighting the fuse
Lionel de Rothschild’s gardeners used dynamite to blow holes in the ground so that they could plant trees in Exbury Garden. I learned this useful tip when visiting the garden, reknowned for its collection of trees, spring blossoms and autumn … Continue reading
More Nursery Tales
Topping and tailing our walking holiday in Devon with visits to National Collections meant a slight detour via Somerset on the way home to visit Jane Passiflora. No-one in the office knows why she has been thus named, we aren’t … Continue reading
Nursery Tales
Another walking holiday in Devon, so another opportunity to visit some National Collections en route. Tale Valley Nursery at Clyst Hydon was just off the road on our way down to Dartmouth and Chris and Lorraine Birchall welcomed us to see their collection of Rhodohypoxis … Continue reading
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