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Gardens we have visited 2013

On 18/05/2013 in forum

haven't been anywhere but went somewhere nice last year then send a photo of that. I love looking a gardens - nosy as well! I'll start with Sissinghurst where we went in April, but, apart from the woodland bit, there wasn't much out yet.     Not visited


Dog violets

On 02/11/2012 in Plants

flowers from March to May and is traditionally found in woodland habitats. It also grows at the base of hedges, in grassland and, of course, in gardens.  In fact, the dog violet is often regarded as a weed, and I can see why. Like many other weeds, it


Dealing with the impact of trees and shade

On 08/10/2012 in forum

Hi I'm a keen but fairly unexpereinced gardener - with a young family and a full time job so very little time! Our garden at the back of house has a border of woodland to the eastern side, another large tree in our neighbours garden on the western


Gardening books

On 26/08/2008 in Unassigned

look to for both inspiration and entertainment. At the moment my favourites are Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden and The Potting Shed Papers by Charles Elliott (no pictures but some excellent writing).This last was given to me by the mysterious Garden


Carol Klein: Life in a Cottage Garden

On 10/01/2011 in Gardeners' musings

Cottage, North Devon.The first episode covered January and February. Carol showed how to lift and divide snowdrops in her woodland garden, then demonstrated a rarely seen propagation technique called twin scaling. This technique is much used


Helping Primary School

On 10/04/2012 in forum

online for ideas).  You could sign yourself up to your local freecycle as there's generally lots of garden-related give-aways such as pots, plants, sheds etc. The woodland trust is offering a free native hedgerow collection to schools this year if you


Composting

On 20/05/2013 in forum

more so can we use them as mulch under our beech hedged or on the vegetable garden or are there any other uses in the garden? Your views would be welcome. Linda Martin-Law I've used wood chip as a mulch in my woodland area which are beech trees, along


Chelsea 2010: my verdict

On 25/05/2010 in Gardeners' musings

the job, I noted a couple of honeybees foraging for nectar. I liked the HESCO garden, the centre of which was a canal lock (complete with leaky canal bursting through), and consisted of three areas: a floral meadow, woodland and wetland.I was impressed


Home made garden arch

On 13/12/2012 in forum

I thought I would share this picture of my garden arch that I made before the snow hit us. I made it out of Birch. The small piece of land at the side of my house was being thinned out so had the chance to get some nice pieces of wood.  Hello Sam


Jack Frost nipping at your nose

On 21/12/2007 in Unassigned

, woodlands and even supermarket car parks. There is also that wonderful tingling cold that gets your nose and fingertips and the enormous simple pleasure of returning to a warm house to thaw out."I'm dreaming of a frosty Christmas, with every Gardeners' World


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