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Tuesday, 29 March 2016
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The Hippo on the Thames
Flowers in early spring
I Love Yarn Day
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New Snowdrops (& a Leucojum) for 2025: Part One - ‘Dryad Gold Sovereign’ features beautiful yellow markings and a huge flower. I have been importing snowdrops from England and growing them on for my custom...
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Planting Bulbs in Outdoor Containers - So you love tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths? The list goes on. But maybe you live in a condo or apartment with only a balcony and no yard. Or perhaps yo...1 week ago
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Soft Colors, Sweet Mood: GBBD, June 2024 - June, when the early summer display features soft colors of pink, blue and violet that create a sweet mood, is one of my favorite times in the garden. The ...5 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...6 months ago
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Cloud Pruning A Climbing Rose - I first saw cloud pruning done at Peninsula Park rose garden in Portland, Oregon. I went there for a one-day rose pruning course and the person teaching it...8 months ago
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Revisiting Great Dixter After the Garden Design's Webinar with Fergus Garrett - 'Succession Planting for a Long Season' was a great webinar with Great Dixter's Head Gardener! Inspirational, full of information, tips and ideas, it made ...
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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...3 years ago
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Matoa at Desa Seri Iskandar - This matoa tree has a story of its own. We joined a group tour to Batam Island way back in 2015. Over a lunch there we were served with matoa fruits as de...
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The Monarch: Long-Distance Pupation - The migration of the monarch butterfly is a well-known natural annual occurrence in North America. In the fall, hundreds of thousands of monarchs wing the...
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Songbirds of 2017 ~ Wood Warblers - I so look forward to the return of wood warblers to our gardens and fields and forest! I have a few featured from 2017 on my latest post over on my Garden ...
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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...9 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...11 years ago
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Gold Laced Polyanthus
Daffodils
Hyacinth
Blotanical
Hellebores
Self-seeded plants on the patio
I Pin with Pinterest
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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New Plants This Year7 years ago
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For future reference, see Awkward Hill11 years ago
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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
