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Underwhelming plants or underwhelming gardener?

Robert — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:29:50 +0000

On the face of it It was predictable. ‘Red Queen’ stuff. You know the sort of thing: ‘Off with their heads!’ In her last Saturday’s piece: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/9027558/Dont-put-up-with-underwhelming-plants.html Anne Wareham, the self styled ‘Bad Tempered Gardener’...

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Over the garden wall…..

Robert — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:39:21 +0000

It is always worth a peek around you when you are out and about. Early last summer Lesley and I were visiting a nursery and a casual glance (no lets be honest a blatantly nosey, tip-toeingly precarious, neck-craning peer over a stone wall) revealed this intriguing landscape: The pale trunks of...

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Little and Large

Robert — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:44:01 +0000

I was saying to someone, I forget who, on twitter the other day that I love this time of year. The last few afternoons, gardens have been dramatic landscapes, with exhilarating floods of late sunlight in piercing shafts which are almost blinding: The shadows are deep and dark and completely...

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‘Microclimateology’ – my little plan for global domination

Robert — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:55:10 +0000

OK, I admit it I am responsible for this early flowering stuff. (On twitter everyone is saying how soon everything is coming into flower!) Rest easy, I am not exactly a Bond-style villain for whom heating this world up is part of a cunning scheme to control the entire universe Nor am I personally...

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Sweet as Winter

Robert — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:40:19 +0000

The other day, we were standing in biting wind with the admirable James, one of our favourite landscape contractors, discussing the schedule of works for a garden we designed a few months ago. The owners have asked us, as the designers, to obtain quotes for the implementation of the garden design....

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What’s not to like: Garrya elliptica?

Robert — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:40:58 +0000

Out walking,I commented on this Garrya to my companion. ‘I detest that plant’ said F with a vehemence which both surprised me and seemed completely unmerited. I mean, it sits there innocently enough, arching over the gate: Its elegant tassels of bloom are discrete. It is...

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No man went to mow………..

Robert — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:50:36 +0000

To the right of the fence in the garden the grass is ankle length. To the left of the fence in the field the sward is neater and getting neater all the time. I grant you that there is a difference in colour: I am not your average ‘grass man’. I do not plod up and [...]

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Its A Fecund Fiery Friday!

Robert — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:58:09 +0000

Well a fecund thursday and a fiery friday actually, because this was photo’d in the garden yesterday. It caught my eye hanging there amongst a load of rather grey looking, summer flowering shrubs. Yeah, it looks all fruitiliciously luscious: but its definitely a steer clear! This is of course...

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‘The Ninfa of Somerset’: The Bishop’s Palace Garden in Wells

Robert — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:14:28 +0000

Ninfa? In Somerset? Well…. think water, gardens and ruins. These are its genius loci OK, Wells is just a few degrees north, but it has them all. And they are the business! From bustling Wells, you cross the moat via a drawbridge. (In times gone by Bishops were security conscious too!)...

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Snug, Smug and ‘Beautied Out’

Robert — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:01:50 +0000

The worst of the winter weather is usually after Christmas, But by now the garden is well protected and I can mentally (just mentally!!) relax somewhat. Tender treasures are protected by a thick fluffy layer of Cryptomeria, weighed down with long rods of hazel: The builders managed to’...

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