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Wednesday, 22 July 2015

First harvest



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Sunday, 12 July 2015

A poppy coloured hollyhock growing on the patio



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Thursday, 2 July 2015

My lovely July garden

















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The Hippo on the Thames

The Hippo on the Thames

Flowers in early spring

Flowers in early spring

I Love Yarn Day

I Love Yarn Day

My Blog List

  • Garden Bulb Blog: Flower Bulbs & Gardening TipsGarden Bulb Blog: Flower Bulbs & Gardening Tips | Garden Bulb Blog: Flower Bulbs & Gardening Tips
    Quick & Easy Ways to Overwinter Summer Bulbs in Pots Indoors - Is it a perennial? Will these come back next year? When speaking with family and friends about garden plants, I often hear those two questions. I underst...
    2 days ago
  • Jean's Garden
    Waiting for Spring - In much of the country, parts of which have already experienced unseasonably hot temperatures, spring is well underway. But here in northern New England, w...
    2 months ago
  • MySecretGarden
    Pictures from Marcia Donahue's Garden - These are some of my pictures from Marcia Donahue's Garden in Berkeley, CA. Unique ceramic sculptures, salvage objects, gifted pieces of art, dense plantin...
    3 months ago
  • CAROLYN'S SHADE GARDENS
    Snowdrops at Thenford Gardens - Photos from our private tour of Thenford Gardens in England, with over 1,000 snowdrop cultivars and National Collection status.
    6 months ago
  • The Impatient Gardener
    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...
    2 years ago
  • RAMBLINGS FROM A DESERT GARDEN....
    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...
    5 years ago
  • May Dreams Gardens
    Over here. I'm over here now! -
    5 years ago
  • Conrad Art Glass & Gardens
    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...
    5 years ago
  • Our Little Acre
    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...
    6 years ago
  • My Tiny Plot
    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...
    8 years ago
  • Flower Hill Farm
    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...
    8 years ago
  • My little vegetable garden
    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 ...
    9 years ago
  • a london gardener
    - Finally made a start on putting all of this stuff in one place; I’ve just finished scanning in Mum’s life story, as told in 2007. The plan is to scan in ou...
    10 years ago
  • Flower Bulb Crazy
    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...
    11 years ago
  • Awkward Hill
    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
  • Garden geek
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Gold Laced Polyanthus

Gold Laced Polyanthus

Daffodils

Daffodils

Hyacinth

Hyacinth

Blotanical

Blotanical

Hellebores

Hellebores

Self-seeded plants on the patio

I Pin with Pinterest

I Pin with Pinterest

I Love Crafts

I Love Crafts

Flowers in the beautiful garden behind the Montague Arms at Beaulieu

Flowers in the beautiful garden behind the Montague Arms at Beaulieu

This photo was taken by my brother Stephen Barton in summer 2009

This photo was taken by my brother Stephen Barton in summer 2009

and another one

and another one

One of the obligatory cats

One of the obligatory cats
Morris enjoying the sunshine

and a horse

and a horse
Messie

The garden in winter

The garden in winter
February 2009

Tia

Tia

I Knit with Lion Brand

I Knit with Lion Brand

Rudbeckias in Guildford Castle Gardens

Rudbeckias in Guildford Castle Gardens
Click on picture to find out more about Guildford Castle

I love the butterfly

  • Cleveland Botanical Garden

The Great Gardening Show Loseley House 2008

The Great Gardening Show Loseley House 2008
Floral arrangement from Send Prison

London Open Squares Day

London Open Squares Day
Roehampton Allotments - my grandparents grew vegetables here in the 1920s

Woking Park

Woking Park

A seat for cat lovers

A seat for cat lovers

Olivia loves using this watering can when she visits

Olivia loves using this watering can when she visits

London Open Gardens & Squares (click on picture to view website)

London Open Gardens & Squares (click on picture to view website)
Garden Barge Square

More cats

More cats
Fluffy & Pebbles

London Open Gardens & Squares (click on picture to view website)

London Open Gardens & Squares (click on picture to view website)
Harleyford Road

My favourite gardens

My favourite gardens
Museum of Kent Life (click on picture to view Kent Life website)

More .....

More .....
Morris & Pebbles

London Open Gardens & Squares (click on picture to view website)

London Open Gardens & Squares (click on picture to view website)
Red Cross Garden

Fraggles

Fraggles

Gardens of family & friends

Gardens of family & friends
Corrie & Ellen in their garden c1915

Plants given to me by family & friends

Plants given to me by family & friends
George's geranium

My Blog List

  • MySecretGarden
    Pictures from Marcia Donahue's Garden
    3 months ago
  • The Inelegant Gardener
    Harvest
    9 months ago
  • RAMBLINGS FROM A DESERT GARDEN....
    How to Plant a Cactus In a Pot
    5 years ago
  • Conrad Art Glass & Gardens
    Numerous examples of my Stained Glass Lamp work... updated 11-20
    5 years ago
  • Flower Hill Farm
    Flower Hill Farm Butterflies of 2017
    8 years ago
  • The Obsessive Gardener
    I'm back!
    8 years ago
  • My little vegetable garden
    Leucaena (Petai Belalang), a player in garden sustainability.
    9 years ago
  • Awkward Hill
    For future reference, see Awkward Hill
    12 years ago
  • The Balcony Garden
    April Heatwave
    15 years ago
  • Liz and the Professor
    Scrap Hammered
    16 years ago
  • Garden geek

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My favourite gardens

My favourite gardens
Museum of Garden History (click on picture to view website)

Gardens of family & friends

Gardens of family & friends
Susannahs garden in Pennsylvania

Another cat

Another cat
Fluffy

Plants given to me by family & friends

Plants given to me by family & friends
Julie's White Lamium

Followers

and another

and another
Alexander the kitten

Gardens of family & friends

Gardens of family & friends
Charles' Garden in Shanklin

Plants given to me by family & friends

Plants given to me by family & friends
Mum's fuschia

The garden in winter

The garden in winter

Gardens of family & friends

Gardens of family & friends
Richard Simeon Lee gardening in Edmonton (c1900)

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Plants given to me by family and friends

Plants given to me by family and friends
Grandmothers's cactus

My favourite gardens

My favourite gardens
Chelsea Physic Garden (click on picture to view website)

Morris sunbathing again

Morris sunbathing again

My favourite gardens

My favourite gardens
Alverstoke Crescent (click on picture to view website)

Plants given to me by family & friends

Plants given to me by family & friends
Mum's Angels Tears

My favourite gardens

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

Plants given to me by family & friends
Mara's Japanese anemone

My favourite gardens

My favourite gardens
Guildford Castle Gardens (click on picture to view website)

Gardening Websites

  • Blotanical
  • Heritage Seed Library
  • National Gardens Scheme
  • Organic Gardening Catalogue
  • Royal Horticultural Society
  • Ventnor Botanic Garden

My favourite gardens

My favourite gardens
Geffrye Museum Garden (click on picture to view website)

Pebbles hiding

Pebbles hiding

My favourite gardens

My favourite gardens
Cemetery garden in Alverstoke

Favourite Gardening Books

  • 3000 Mile Garden by Roger Phillips and Lesley Land
  • All of Marjorie Fish's books
  • All of Christopher Lloyd's books - 'The Well Tempered Garden', 'Christopher Lloyds Garden Flowers', Dear Friend & Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening ' etc
  • Grow Your Own Veg - Carol Klein
  • Jekka's Complete Herb Book - Jekka McVicar

My favourite gardens

My favourite gardens
East Lambrook Manor (click on picture to view website)

Alexander

Alexander

Plants given to me by family & friends

Plants given to me by family & friends
Charles' summer bedding

the last but not the least

the last but not the least
Pebbles

Jess

Jess