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Flowers in early spring
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New Snowdrops (& a Leucojum) for 2026: Part Two - ‘Treasure Island’ is the most beautiful yellow snowdrop I have ever seen. To access our current snowdrop catalogue, click here. Seeing the green tips of em...
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Homeschool Flower Bulb Planting Day - I had the privilege of teaching a group of homeschool kids about planting flower bulbs. The group of kids is called The Chosen Explorers. This group focu...2 weeks ago
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Peak Season - Today marked the peak of daylily season in my garden. The daylily bloom that is my favorite part of the garden year began with a bang three weeks ago, when...4 months ago
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A repotting project illuminates good and bad container ideas - [image: Clematis growing over arbor gate] There is remarkable satisfaction in seeing how a garden project plays out down the road. I recently revisited a p...1 year ago
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How to Plant a Cactus In a Pot - Have you ever seen the beauty of cactuses showcased in containers? Adding a cactus to a container helps to set it apart from the rest of the landscape an...4 years ago
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Numerous examples of my Stained Glass Lamp work... updated 11-20 - I completed my 3rd 'Flowering Lotus' a few months ago... it's on the right in the above photo and also pictured below... A 22" diameter Elaborate Peony...
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Garden Memories From Last Fall - I realized that if I don't post anything right now, I hurt this blog's feelings... Four months with no posts... it's bad! So, let me post some garden pictu...
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Green Envy™ - An Exceptional Echinacea for Your Epidermis - For years, I've grown coneflowers (*Echinacea *sp.) in my garden, including one called Green Envy™. I love how its pink petals are tinged with green, as i...
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My Overdue Elderflower Cordial - Quite honestly, I’ve been wanting to make Elderflower cordial since I started gardening. At first I was thwarted by simply not having an Elderberry bush no...7 years ago
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Flower Hill Farm Butterflies of 2017 - I hope you can check out my Butterflies of 2017 post over at my Garden Blog Lovely to see the brilliant colors and beautiful patterns when the landscape is...
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Leucaena (Petai Belalang), a player in garden sustainability. - A young lady Nor Hidayah came to the office last week for her doctoral research. I was chosen as her expert panel for professional inputs, which I gladly ...
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Planning a Mix of Perennials and Bulbs - Roots, Bulbs, Corms, Rhizomes or Tubers: just think of flower bulbs, just as other plants that you choose to add to your garden. What is the purpose or pu...10 years ago
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For future reference, see Awkward Hill - I moved from Wandsworth, in south-west London, in November 2012, and I now live in the Cotswolds. You can read about my garden there at Tales from Awkward H...12 years ago
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Gold Laced Polyanthus
Daffodils
Hyacinth
Blotanical
Hellebores
Self-seeded plants on the patio
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I Love Crafts
Flowers in the beautiful garden behind the Montague Arms at Beaulieu
This photo was taken by my brother Stephen Barton in summer 2009
and another one
One of the obligatory cats
Morris enjoying the sunshine
and a horse
Messie
The garden in winter
February 2009
Tia
I Knit with Lion Brand
Rudbeckias in Guildford Castle Gardens
Click on picture to find out more about Guildford Castle
The Great Gardening Show Loseley House 2008
Floral arrangement from Send Prison
London Open Squares Day
Roehampton Allotments - my grandparents grew vegetables here in the 1920s
Woking Park
A seat for cat lovers
Olivia loves using this watering can when she visits
London Open Gardens & Squares (click on picture to view website)
Garden Barge Square
More cats
Fluffy & Pebbles
London Open Gardens & Squares (click on picture to view website)
Harleyford Road
My favourite gardens
Museum of Kent Life (click on picture to view Kent Life website)
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Morris & Pebbles
London Open Gardens & Squares (click on picture to view website)
Red Cross Garden
Fraggles
Gardens of family & friends
Corrie & Ellen in their garden c1915
Plants given to me by family & friends
George's geranium
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My favourite gardens
Museum of Garden History (click on picture to view website)
Gardens of family & friends
Susannahs garden in Pennsylvania
Another cat
Fluffy
Plants given to me by family & friends
Julie's White Lamium
and another
Alexander the kitten
Gardens of family & friends
Charles' Garden in Shanklin
Plants given to me by family & friends
Mum's fuschia
The garden in winter
Gardens of family & friends
Richard Simeon Lee gardening in Edmonton (c1900)
Plants given to me by family and friends
Grandmothers's cactus
My favourite gardens
Chelsea Physic Garden (click on picture to view website)
Morris sunbathing again
My favourite gardens
Alverstoke Crescent (click on picture to view website)
Plants given to me by family & friends
Mum's Angels Tears
My favourite gardens
One of the gardens in Malvern Terrace, Islington which open under the National Gardens Scheme (click on picture for NGS information)
Plants given to me by family & friends
Mara's Japanese anemone
My favourite gardens
Guildford Castle Gardens (click on picture to view website)
My favourite gardens
Geffrye Museum Garden (click on picture to view website)
Pebbles hiding
My favourite gardens
Cemetery garden in Alverstoke
My favourite gardens
East Lambrook Manor (click on picture to view website)
Alexander
Plants given to me by family & friends
Charles' summer bedding
the last but not the least
Pebbles
Jess
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