tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86988853362163706212024-03-08T23:25:22.383+00:00Bury GardenersWelcome to neighbourhood gardening in Bury, Lancashire. 53° 35’N, 02° 17’Wburygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.comBlogger269125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-42467380798536515942018-05-11T17:35:00.006+01:002018-05-11T17:35:52.927+01:00Farewell to Burygardeners and hello to.....<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On 26th March we moved home to Scotland and now live in Newtongrange near Edinburgh. I wanted to blog the garden as it took shape but it seemed silly staying under the umbrella of Bury gardeners so there is a new blog if you are curious called <a href="https://florilegium1.blogspot.co.uk/">Florilegium</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would love to see you there. Leave a comment to say you have arrived.....</span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-19820565510312918042018-01-07T14:26:00.000+00:002018-01-07T14:26:17.801+00:00Getting lighter every day.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know it is hard to believe in the first week of January that the days are actually starting to lengthen, but they are. That said, the bulbs in the garden are not showing much growth. I have quite a lot of crocus, daffodils, tulips and some hyacinth (which tend to revert to bluebells) in the front and back garden and they are very hard to find. Usually the daffs are easy to spot by now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The free bulbs (a bag of daffodils) that I get every year from Summerseat are doing brilliantly in their container. This is the one that I am test running for the company that makes them and it is holding up well to the hostile weather.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is always compensation indoors from my two fantastic orchids <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">(Phalaenopsis). They are a couple of years old now and managed to </span>put on a terrific show for Christmas both years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They must be the one of the lowest maintenance plants ever. Very little watering, very little feeding and they do this a couple of times a year and the flowers last for months. How could it get any better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for something which is nigh on totally neglected here comes another one. I have had this Christmas cactus (S<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">chlumbergera bridgessii) </em>so long that I have no idea when I got it - literally years ago. I have never re-potted it and it must be choked to death in its original pot. It gets moved hither and yon depending on what I want to do with any surface or windowsill and gets it gets watered and fed if its lucky. In return it does this for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year I am hoping to change the borders over to just flowering shrubs - this does include the roses and trees and shrubs already in place. I want to start to remove the perennials and replace with shrubs as and when I can afford it, or see something I like, not necessarily the same thing! It will be tough to do as I love flowers and can not imagine living without basics like poppies and columbines and many others. My thinking is that as I get older the garden needs to be more and more trouble free and a shrubbery seems to be the way to go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly the site itself <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.planters-online.co.uk/">Planters Online</a> </span>is an excellent site to visit. Visually attractive and easy to negotiate. There are many filters you can choose to reduce the amount of pots you need to trawl through if you are looking for a specific size, colour or finish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The delivery time was also excellent and my well packed trough arrived just two days later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This summer I have been looking for five new 'long toms' to replace the ones I currently use to grow my herbs in outside the back door, but it seems I can only find them on line these days so haven't made a real effort to get on with it. My other thought was a couple of long troughs and plant three or so herbs in each. I wasn't thrilled with the idea of lifting large plant filled troughs twice a year when removing old plants pre-winter and replanting with new plants in the spring, so the notion of a fibreglass or plastic pot was attractive to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My next consideration was that all the pots in my garden are terracotta and its a look I like and didn't want to deviate from. Many of the pots sold by <a href="https://www.planters-online.co.uk/" style="font-weight: bold;">Planters Online</a> are very dashing and modern and while they are lovely to look at they are not what my raggety, taggety, fluffy garden is about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided on one which was described as terracotta and with a matt surface: ARTESA 25 terracotta matt. This would cost £35.91. I am not all that familiar with the usual price for these sorts of pots but since owning it have looked at similar things in four different garden centres and would say this was a pretty average sort of price. I did find an unpriced one in B & M (!!!) earlier in the year before I set off on this journey and declined it as it was £11 - little did I know then!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I confess it isn't the colour I wanted. I was hoping for something close to the usual terracotta colour. I am hoping it will mute down a little over the winter. I am sure the product manufacturer would claim it will keep its colour and texture whatever the winter throws at it - we shall see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These planters are made for indoor or outdoor use. If they go outside they should, of course, have holes drilled in them to supply good drainage for the plant(s) or have a generous base of gravel in the bottom to do the same. Similarly indoors, plants would thrive better if they had some means of draining off excess water away from the plant(s).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is no particular criticism of this seller but I wish pot manufacturers would have the sense to add this sort of instruction to the label and save a few plants 'lives. My label read: UV resistant, frost proof, shock resistant, light weight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again for a complete novice it is useful to mark up places to drill when you flip the pot over. Ideally if they could mold half a dozen areas more thinly that the rest of the material so they could just be tapped through with something like a nail and hammer that would be even better - not everyone has a drill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The flipside of this pot looked like this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you tap out the huge circle in the centre? Do you drill through the six small indents round the edge? Maybe none of these, just make your own holes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may also notice that the pot sort of has legs - the main box is slightly raised from the ground with edges that will also allow water to drain away. This will prevent the pot sitting in water and, more importantly, stop it freezing to the ground in the winter if we have a really bad spell. All my terracotta pots are raised a little in some way to prevent this happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went with drilling out the six places with the indents. Seems odd having them round the edges only but there is a sort of run off trough all round the edges to catch water. So here is the brand new spanking pot ready to take its dozen free bulbs from Summerseat for its overwintering trial run.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[If you get a membership card for Summerseat (also works at Bradley Fold) you get money back and offers like free spring bulbs.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As it is probably destined for the herb ledge next spring, it may as well live close up to it as that will be the weather it will get for its future life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, in summary</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the selection of pots available is good</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the price is probably pretty average </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the delivery excellent </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you like modern plastic/fibreglass pots for indoors or out this would seem a good place to shop for them.</span><br />
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<br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-50306496691996304012017-09-17T00:30:00.000+01:002017-09-17T00:30:04.454+01:00Annual Photos<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every year I try to remember to take eight photos in the garden in July. They are each taken from the same position (roughly the eight points of the compass). It is really interesting to look at them now and then and remember the steps the garden has gone through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year I forgot and I ended up taking the photos the third week in August instead of mid-July - better that, than not at all. Here is the set of the east facing border as an example of what I mean by change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first summer in 2007 and we had the patio in and the borders cut. We had another small seating area in the corner and the borders were colour coded. This was the red border.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Next year a summerhouse had replaced the seating corner</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> By our third year all the border had been dug up an plants moved elsewhere and we had a veggie garden</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Still with our three veggie raised bed boxes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Looking even better in 2011. Lovely rhubarb and great runner beans</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Wionder what I had planted in 2012?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> By 2013 I had given up doing battle with the cats and a flower border returned</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2014 and the roses are planted and the fence is mellowing. I can just see the course of bricks for our conservatory which replaced the patio</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> By 2015 the conservatory seems like it had always been there and the border seems to be flourishing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Needless to say the next year out it all came out and new planting went in</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> That's still there this year..... who knows what will be there in 2018.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before I start moaning about just how much I am hating cats right now I had better say that in my lifetime I have been the owner of five cats - at one time I had two at the same time......so I quite understand the 'passion' for them as pets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe my current situation is karma/payback for all the poo my cats must have deposited on other people's gardens over the years!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whatever, my garden is a cat's toilet at the front and at the back, in the beds and on the lawn. There isn't a single day where I am not left a little (or large!) present; some days more than one. I am fairly sure it came about because until last winter we used to spend half a year in the States and the cats had free rein. I am trying to believe that the quantity is reducing by degrees as they get used to the fact we are in full time residence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have tried just about every suggestion under the sun that is practicable, with no success whatsoever. Indeed they were the reason for my giving up trying to grow edibles in the back garden a few years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a last desperate effort we are currently trying two of these.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They are solar powered sonic cat (and dog) repellers. They emit a high pitch sound which is uncomfortable for cats and dogs but humans can't hear. There is a suggestion that children might be able to hear it. I certainly can't. They have a 70 degree spread with a twenty foot (plus) reach. As our front garden seems to be the worst hit we are using them out there right now. It has proved difficult on our corner plot to site them so they form a barrier across the garden. Think we've cracked it. They have a couple of small flickering lights which flick on when something comes within its range so it is easy to check they are still working. We have no means of hard wiring them so they rely on recharged batteries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Sadly our front garden is mostly in the shade (NE facing) so the solar element doesn't work at all. We also have a lot of foot and car passing traffic so the batteries run down very quickly. [The photo above was taken in sunlight in the back garden]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For us this means they are a bit of a pain as we have to keep an eye on them almost daily to check they are still working and then charge the batteries when they are not - so, for us, they don't seem a good long term solution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amazingly we have only had one deposit since they went in so I am fairly confident they are working. I am living in hopes that the eight cats - really! - who use our garden may get in the habit of going elsewhere - huge apologies to anyone who inherits them.</span></div>
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<br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-66946957064481154112017-09-03T00:30:00.000+01:002017-09-03T00:30:20.774+01:00Bits of the back garden in August<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">August is always the 'flat' month in anyone's garden. The high flush of summer seems to be on the wane.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">looking a little tired but there's a second flush of roses still to come</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-39014466634685027192017-08-27T00:30:00.000+01:002017-08-27T00:30:09.683+01:00A flavour of Sizergh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sizergh as in Tizer....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We visited Sizergh Castle in mid August but it is still not to late to go there - just about an hour and a quarter from Bury so not too daunting for a day out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The house/castle is decidedly interesting and is very 'lived in' which makes it probably more interesting than many which can be very sterile and museum-like. There is the usual National Trust eatery and gift shop - so ice cream and cakes and a rootle round for some presents for folks is not a bad way to spend a sunny afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />It is beneficial to plant flowers with vegetables if you have the space (companion planting). There is a raft of information about it if you Google it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My front garden does have something flowering in it pretty much the whole year but I do love July when the crocosmia Lucifer is doing its thing and the hanging basket is beginning to flesh itself out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The front garden is north west facing - just about the worst for gardens - and is always pretty much in shade so I like to have all the hot colours on this side of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apologies for the grass needing cutting - pleading too much rain......</span></div>
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<br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-89578141067889627072017-07-13T14:06:00.002+01:002017-08-26T13:33:24.081+01:00Any excuse for lunch....<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had lunch yesterday at<a href="http://www.summerseatgardencentre.co.uk/"> Summerseat Garden Centre</a> . On their website it says the garden centre began in 1984. I am fairly certain I shopped there for many years prior to that when it was just a nursery. As I am still going there forty years on it must be a testament to its worth. Admittedly, being an old fogey, I sort of regret its success as it has now transformed into pretty much any other large garden centre. Hey ho....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are just the things that drew my interest. They do a lot more things, such as trips to garden shows, so seek out their site by clicking here </span><a href="http://www.summerseatgardencentre.co.uk/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Summerseat</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or pop in for a rummage or something to eat and read the board as you leave.</span></div>
burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-36329028461188056972017-06-26T04:30:00.000+01:002017-06-26T16:26:04.173+01:00Summer routines<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just a quick note to share my regular summer schedule with you. Summer goes from April through October!</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every <b>two weeks</b>, I treat my magnolias/camellias differently to the rest of the garden - three are in pots and one planted in the border. They are watered with a sequestered iron feed. I use Miracle-Grow but, again, any feed suitable for Camellias and azaleas will do. The box says use from March to September but being this far North it is probably better to stop at the end of July (ish) as they can be too weak and sappy when they are fed to stand any cold snaps which will turn up quicker up here. They need to toughen up a little. This is definitely needed if yours are looking in any way spindly or the leaves going a paler colour. Two doses and my wan camellia is a third taller, full of leaves and they are dark green and glossy again.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>In hot weather: </b>I am currently frazzling in 28 degrees of heat so it is a good reminder that any pots or hanging baskets need daily (and sometimes more!) watering in very hot weather. Any new planting, especially trees and shrubs, need frequent watering whether the weather is hot or not. By the same token if your garden is reasonably well established don't worry about watering it - the lawn and garden will spring back quickly as soon as it rains even if it is looking a bit dry right now.</span></div>
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burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-26410175114532995052017-06-19T13:48:00.003+01:002017-08-26T13:33:39.483+01:00Flaming June<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I write this flaming June is living up to its name - ten o'clock with bright sun, 25 degrees and rising!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I did my morning stroll round the garden with my tea to check what new 'faces' have appeared in the border - as I was armed with a camera I thought I'd share...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this is the centre of a clematis which drops its outer sepals after a while and leaves these lovely centres for ages - might be Viennetta </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">love little geraniums this one is 'Elke' makes great ground cover</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this is the double form of the one above - get both type of flowers on the same plant</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Bowles Mauve', perennial wallflower - flowers all year</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I won two of these in a competition four year ago - finally come into its own, 'Elfe'</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was smothered in two clematis and a yellow rose for the season but it wasn't too bad to clear away. I cut through the stems about a foot up from the base of the clematis and then teased out the tangled mass from the trellis..... then trimmed back the rose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have three little pergolas in the garden that have clematis growing through them so, again, they need a trim a few inches above ground and the rubbish pulling out. I like these as they add a bit of structure and something to look at in the winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All I did in the front borders was cut back any overhanging vegetation so the pavement was tidy again and nothing was flopping on to the lawn. The rest can take care of itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have eight (four pairs) climbing roses on some trellises in the back garden. They were very badly massacred to allow the new fence to be put up last Christmas and they did almost nothing this year - very spindly, unhealthy growth with a handful of flowers. This is one of the pair of white roses on the side which wasn't replaced and they did reasonably OK and have cut back for the winter in the usual way. That said they hadn't been disturbed and still weren't great (???)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This (below) is one of the New Dawn pair which looked just awful this year. New Dawn is as tough as old boot so I am surprised. I really don't know what to do for it. I didn't have a single decent lateral to tie in and trim back to. This felt like the best I could do. I may leave it at this and see what happens next summer after a rest and good feed or, the other thinking is, I get really brave and cut every stem down to a foot above ground and see if we can start again. I would welcome opinions if anyone has sorted out an old unproductive rose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our first snow came early this year - 18th November. It was only a smattering and it got rained on but because the temperatures stayed low it lasted a couple of days in our neck of the woods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the same time as looking out at that a couple of my plants were still doing their thing beautifully inside the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This orchid has been flowering since August. Its last bud has just opened and I have 32 wonderful flowers smiling away at me in the sitting room. If there is a downside it is that it simply does not look real. I assure you it is and I am very proud of it. This came to me as a nice enough little orchid from Tesco which did its five or six flower thing quite quickly. I cut back the stem and parked it on a windowsill expecting the leaves to die. It got a teeny bit of water now and then and that was it. Gradually it grew to this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This little goer is a common enough -a Christmas cactus which thinks Christmas comes about four times a year - it is off again. You really need to get up close and personal and really look at how wonderful each flower is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My other half removed the timers for the watering system and turned off the taps that feed the outside taps. If you have any outside tap that doesn't fully drain (neither of mine do) they should really be wrapped in something like bubble wrap to keep the worst of the freeze out. It can freeze further back than the tap if you have any water trapped in a pipe and that can expand and crack the pipe and next year you'll have a leak. Often they are in the very worst of places and a fiddle to replace/repair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cut down dead and dying herbaceous plants. That said, I leave ones that will look good in the frost and snow and those that may feed the birds or make a winter home for good bugs and critters. Basically I hack down the ones that will fall over and become straggly messes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I threw away my hanging basket and two chimney pot fillers that have done their thing and I will be off to somewhere like <a href="http://www.parkfarmshopramsbottom.co.uk/">Park Farm</a> to find their replacements for the winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Climbing roses can take a small hack back to stop them flailing around in any high winds. I do the major trim in Spring. As we are 'in the North' I don't want to risk too much die back from any frost if we get a bad winter. To be truthful I never managed to get this job done in my time in the garden this time, but I will be doing it soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I shaped up a couple of olive trees that came out of their pots and went into the border this year. They had put on a lot of growth and I want to keep them almost like topiary balls. So, obeying the maxim 'cut for shape in the autumn and for growth in the Spring' I gave them a trim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of all I was out there to plant a heap of bulbs. B & Q have a pretty good deal on some nice quality bulbs right now so I picked some up on a paint buying trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you do the maths you might figure out that three of each variety meant planting 126 bulbs - doesn't sound much but it was enough for me. I remembered the days I would go out with fair size sackfuls of daffodils to plant..... not any more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ideally (most) bulbs like free draining soil, so you can add sharp sand or grit to the hole plus a little bone meal. The hole should be twice the depth of the bulb. In reality I make the deepest slit I can make with my trowel, wiggle it a bit, push the bulb in (right way up) pull the trowel out and close the slit - job done. It works well enough for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I need to spend one more day out there, before winter sets in, to hack off some climbing rose stems, check the borders, sprinkle slug pellets absolutely everywhere. I do mean everywhere - they love lurking in nooks and crannies especially over winter; they need to be lured out in hopes of killing a bunch of them. Less to breed in the spring. Reminder: only scatter the amount recommended; more is not better, it actually puts them off because the smell is too much for them. This is a bait after all, so they hunt the bits of food (aka slug pellet) lying around and Goodnight Vienna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This means the garden side of the hedge appears 'uneven as the garden drops two feet diagonally from the left to the right side. I have always intended that the hedge would be about 18 inches high above the edge of the patio and on a level looking from that side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now we have the conservatory it certainly needs to be in line with the bricks on the conservatory wall when looking from either side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Box is notoriously slow growing and here we are nine years later (well eight actually as this is a photo from last year) and we still aren't quite there but, at last, we are pretty close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every year I have cut it to shape with some hand shears and every year have had a blister the size of saucer on my hand to prove it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This year I succumbed to a great offer (Groupon? £16.99) and bought some small cordless shears. I admit to being doubtful that either they would be strong enough or that they wouldn't chew up the box. Wrong in both cases. They were sharp and efficient and did the job in about a tenth of the time and sans blisters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I got my other half to cut me three pieces of wood and screw them together to make me a cutting guide. I just slide this 'bench' along as I cut.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The traditional day for cutting box hedges is Derby Day - first week in June - but really you can do it more than once a year and pretty much as often as you like in the growing season. Otherwise like almost all pruning/hedge cutting the general rule is cut for growth in spring (March/April)and cut for shape in late summer (August/September).</span></div>
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burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-44140731775188136222016-09-10T08:30:00.000+01:002016-09-10T08:30:17.237+01:00More saved from the bin....<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the lines of a recent post saying I like to buy 'dying' plants in hopes of saving them - the following is even cheaper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lots of potted plants you buy are really 'designed' to be a one-off. Many people, like me, think that things like orchids and amaryllis (often gifts) are just supposed to do their thing and then be binned - far too difficult to do anything else with?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I solemnly swear it has thrived on neglect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In exactly the same vein I had two Ikea (£3?) amaryllis at Christmas that did their glorious thing and I was curious as to what they would do if I just kept them going. Mine have done this....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They must be well over three feet tall, strong as an ox and glorious blemish free deep green leaves. The<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3345515/Amaryllis-the-power-flower.html"> googled advice</a> to get them to flower again this year is to chuck them in a darkish, coolish place at the beginning of September and let the leaves die off, re-pot the bulb in an inch of fresh compost and bring back in when temperature goes below 10 degrees centigrade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I haven't the heart to dump this one but I will, cruelly, experiment on the other..... watch this space.</span></div>
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<br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-28326235720492406952016-09-07T08:30:00.000+01:002016-09-07T08:30:06.969+01:00Damson Jam<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are lucky enough to grow your own damsons here is the quickest and easiest way to make damson jam:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <i>Put half a pound in big jug. Cook three minutes in microwave, stir in half a pound of caster sugar, stir until its all dissolved, put back in microwave for four minutes and its done. Keep in plastic box or jar in fridge.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had lunch at Park farm the other day and they had damsons for £1.49 a pound - rare as hen's teeth to find these days. I bought two pounds, divided them into four and put three half pounds of damsons in just simple ziplock bags and then in the freezer. I don't want a ton of jam just for the two of us so half a pound now and then when I fancy it works for me.... and it makes the damson season last longer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I followed the instructions I've just given you using a large pyrex jub and keeping an eye on it in case it boiled over - it didn't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I didn't cut the fruit off the stone, it all goes in together. My mom used to say if you complained about the stones that if you'd found too many then you must be eating too much of the jam! We just fish them out as we go along - but do be careful when eating it they can hide inside a skin. You can spend a jolly ten minutes fiddling them out at the finished cooking stage if you want to - but not when its at full temperature - jam is exceedingly hot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I have a ton of damson jam uses - there's a particularly nice almond cake with damson jam threaded through it but to be honest not much beats a jam butty with homemade jam and freshly baked bread - this one is all ready for folding and eating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I haven't added the recipe to the links at the top of the blog as I already have microwave jam instructions up there and the plum recipe will cover damsons perfectly well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought the recipe given here was over-sweet for my taste so I will go back to my original instructions (see Microwave jam in the recipe tabs at the top) as that has less sugar and added lemon juice. Each to their own.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-89228621303153998202016-09-03T18:37:00.000+01:002016-09-03T18:37:01.251+01:00Tatton Park<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As part of a couple of days break for my husband's birthday we visited Tatton Park. He and two friends were doing a Segway ride so I was able to wander the gardens at my leisure. It was the most wonderful experience...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We arrived half an hour before the house and gardens were officially open so I, quite literally, had the estate to myself - not even a volunteer in sight let alone a member of the public. What an incredible feeling to be able to wander through the gardens in the sunshine in high summer and have it all to myself. Sheer joy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started off in the most fabulous wild flower meadow I have ever seen. I am so sorry that none of my photos convey the glory of this area to you. You will simply have to imagine standing waist deep in flowers either side of you on a fairly narrowly mowed path through the centre of a vast field. Flower upon flower each seeming better than the one before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It seemed impossible to top this experience but it was maybe possible to to match it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adjacent to the wild flower meadow is a lovely orchard with hundreds of wonderfully espaliered trees surrounding trees in grass, dotted with bee hives. The clean lines and simplicity of all this brought me down to earth a little.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wandered from there through Charlotte's garden which offers an even more serene landscape after all that giddiness and is used by me as my route to a garden I have always loved - the Italian Garden</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This way to the Italian Garden passes the wonderful Conservatory which was only renewed in 2011 so it is looking very sharp right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You then arrive sort of sideways on at the Italian Garden and only when you walk to its centre and front do you grasp its magnitude. This garden is a large formal parterre centered on the back of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and the incredible view across the estate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Triton flanked by the wonderful symmetrical beds - in perfect harmony</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Time was nearly up so I wandered back to the house to meet my companions having only just touched on the vast acres of gardens and glasshouses that you can visit at Tatton. I did do a quick check of its wonderful vegetable garden - a real hive of production - no messing about in here - serious vegetable growing underway on a vast scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you ever can get to Tatton Hall and gardens I recommend you do so. There is so much to see I would give it at least half a day and if you are lucky enough to have a lovely sunny day and if you are fit enough you can easily spend a whole day there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(The house is not open on Mondays) Here is a link to times and fees as they are a bit complicated unless you are a member of the National Trust and then it is free. Click here: <a href="http://www.tattonpark.org.uk/visit/times_and_prices.aspx">Opening Times and Fees</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Google them to read up about all the gardens I haven't mentioned like their world famous Japanese Garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click here for more photos: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/pJDuSkbLFkPBa46V8">Tatton Park</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.8571px;"><i>The present Hall stands on the same site as the first house built by the family 1469. The Hall standing was built between 1832 and 1845 by Rowland Egerton-Warburon to the design of George Latham, a Nantwich architect. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22.8571px;">So, what at first appears to be a grand Tudor House is in fact a Victorian 'homage'. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We were visiting the hall and garden as part of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(my husband's birthday)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> overnight stay in a hotel in Lymm. Being mid August the English summer was in full flow with a warm day and thoroughly grey skies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you like Victorian stately piles this is certainly one to float your boat. Being a dyed in the wool neo-classical Georgian I can't say it was my cup of tea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That said, the ceilings in every room were remarkable and the grand hall impressive to say the least. I can't show you the interior, of course, as usual photography is not allowed inside the house. It is a family home (the same family for 550 years) and still used occasionally. I was once told the ban on photos is an insurance issue (?) The fact the house is still something of a home adds some appeal as it looks to be 'lived in' rather than frozen in aspic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The gardens don't have a feel of a grand designed landscaped but more of a collected hotchpotch of gardens that have been added in over the years by various occupants. Again, this is all a matter of taste as to whether that makes the landscape a better or worse one ..... sadly, for me it is just not cohesive enough to flow nicely from one space to another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Arley is especially famous for the long border. It was one of the earliest of its kind and is said to have set the style for the English long border - simply crammed with every plant imaginable. This is one small section ......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Turn around and there is more... and more .... and more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A little corner that I loved was the tea cottage. Imagine having your staff setting up a dainty tea for you here on a summer afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The vegetable garden is to die for and you are overwhelmed with lettuce envy as you step inside. It certainly beats my (ex) three six foot long raised beds. I often wonder where the produce goes in these vast estates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet again though, I still found the area odd as it has a tall hedged area and arbour at its heart - all very formal and something I though you would expect to find in a landscape with a great vista laid out in front of it to be admired from your seat. The kitchen garden, though lovely, somehow doesn't seem to warrant it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The house and garden is still privately owned and it costs £10 for seniors to go in to all the areas. I suggest you google it if planning a trip as there are various charges according to your age and where you want to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click here for more photos: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/WkShNKskVqdQn6bd9"> Arley Hall</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This lovely passion flower has three six foot stems and over twenty buds to come out (more to come after that no doubt). It was a sad little thing in a tiny pot for 49p back in the Spring. I had bought my friend one for her birthday at the usual sort of price from a reputable nursery which didn't look fantastic for its price and has struggled to do anything as yet. A short time after giving that away I thought how much I wanted a passion flower for myself and I saw this one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the same time as buying the passion flower the shop was selling what appeared to be two dead sticks for a pound - not properly labelled - could have said magnolias? I genuinely thought these might be consigned to the rubbish bin but I faithfully stuck each of their badly damaged hairy little roots into a pot of their own where they remained all winter as two dead sticks. Spring arrives and - and Bingo! - I have two very promising magnolias (????). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have no idea what variety they are so they could be anything from six feet to thirty feet tall and wide when mature. Looking now at the stick and the size of the leaf it is reasonable to think they are common old magnolia soulangia, so they are the big ones!! I am seventy and they take twenty years to maturity so may not be a bother to me when they swamp the garden. In truth I do have the right spot for one of them. The other may just reside in a pot for a few years and I will think again then. Meanwhile whoopee-do, three lives saved; total cost, £1.49.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I showed you some photos of my lovely fluffy border a couple of days ago - all four of them were something like that at that time. Eventually they start to 'go over' and look untidy and some plants bully out the others so this is a good time to give it a judicious chop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two corners have eight feet high thalictrum in them which is fabulous when it is in full flood but they had finished flowering and even though they have pretty seed heads they always swamp out other things around them so it was time for them to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I cut back all the thalictrum (meadow-rue), oriental poppies, granny bonnets and dead-headed the roses by cutting them back quite a few inches. I then lightly fed the garden with some 7:7:7 national Growmore. These are granules and easy to chuck a handful here and there a couple of times in the growing season - once in late Spring and once in late summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I just Googled them and you can get them for around a fiver (three in a pack) from various places. They store flat and therefore easily, they won't rust or rot(?) and are made from recycled plastic..... coffee cups I think.</span><br />
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They are designed to fit in horizontal fencing without additional support. They can also be screwed in place (two holes in top tab) or hung on a hook or a nail in a wall or fence.</div>
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<br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-4055447344373656792016-08-01T17:48:00.000+01:002016-09-01T12:19:49.140+01:00Wollerton Old Hall<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Usually I struggle to find a favourite this or that but I do have a favourite garden and that is <a href="http://wollertonoldhallgarden.com/">Wollerton Old Hall</a>. I have been lucky enough to see many of the major gardens and places such as Hidcote and Kiftsgate and many others and most are just overwhelmingly lovely but for some reason <a href="http://wollertonoldhallgarden.com/">Wollerton </a>has my heart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I 'discovered' it many years ago in its 'infancy' when it was just a private garden open to the public now and then and I have seen it mature and develop further and further right down into the copse at the bottom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This time I hadn't been for about three years and the change is palpable. It is much 'bigger'. The planting that is... the plants have grown and matured and have packed every little inch. I love it only slightly less, but the doubt is there. It had (has?) very defined rooms with glimpses long and short from one to another this seems to perform at a lower key when the planting is almost swamping you and I think that is a shame as it seemed to be the key to its particular charm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is now fairly busy with visitors and I am (unreasonably) greedy in wanting it to myself. One of my very best visits there (last time) was in the rain. The garden took on a whole new face and was almost just mine. This time I bobbed around with others and grudgingly shared it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some pictures here and you can go to the album if you want to see more. Click here: <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/111541135918891492122/6313529499592199649?authuser=0&feat=directlink">Wollerton Old Hall</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">there used to be a rose and <span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> climbing </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">fuschia (Lady Boothby) on this wall</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">all about glimpses</td></tr>
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<br />burygardenershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07930807695134677074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8698885336216370621.post-79305864318930308592016-07-31T17:29:00.001+01:002016-09-01T12:18:30.104+01:00My Garden in July<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are photos of bits of my garden in July. It is difficult to choose a favourite month as each one offers something different and always a favourite amongst it somewhere but I really do have a real passion for the lovely 'Lucifer' that flowers its socks off in the front garden at this time of the year.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this small half moon border has five different plants which come up and flower in turn as the season rolls along... July is crocosmia Lucifer's turn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the side front wall is smothered in clematis Black prince. It is supposed to have a yellow rose mixed in it but the clematis swamps it out</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my lovely perfumed jasmine archway to my 'hive' - my hobby room on the side of the house</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the rowan has berried early this year and done so well that they are weighing down the branches</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love 'fluffy' borders</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">detail - rowan, clematis, verbena bonariensis, gypsophila, thalictrum</td></tr>
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