Month: May 2014

Composting Workshop Notes

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I've just added a category which you can find in the menu at the top of the web page, with many of the notes I'll be referring to in my Composting Workshop at Petersham Nurseries. I warn you, there's a lot of reading there and I'll even be adding to it, with notes on wormeries…

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The Darling Buds of May – the first Alliums, fragrant Roses, lilac, flashy tulips and buttercup fields –

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Alliums and ironwork in the Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries - elsewhere the first of the roses coming into flower - so many more in furious bud; I had to wait until July last year for the first roses to bloom - March was so bitterly and consistently chill, day and night, that the whole…

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Goodbye April – or What the Gardener did Next- and shoe-horning in a mention of Titus Andronicus…

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I saw these huge aquilegias at a garden centre yesterday - Virginia and Vermont - rather beautiful but prefer my Blue Barlows... A busy day yesterday, working in two of my gardens in Strawberry Hill. The first, occupied by further planting out in the newly created front garden borders and new container displays. In traditional…

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