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Aesculus hippocastanum | Mark McNee
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A Personal Gardening Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Gardens as a list. Make The Garden Your Own. Examples of previous work. April 25, 2015. Century. The first written reference to it was in a 1557 letter from Istanbul by the wonderfully named Willem Quackelbeen. A description of the plants discovery and rediscovery by Professor H. Walter Lack can be found here. L is only distantly related to the Sweet chestnut (. Mill) with taxonomists placing them in separate orders. The tree ...
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Brick wall thickness | Mark McNee
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A Personal Gardening Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Gardens as a list. Make The Garden Your Own. Examples of previous work. June 16, 2012. The convention for describing the thickness of a wall is relative to the length of a brick so goes like this. It may seem counterintuitive but as its long established deviating from it will lead to confusion. A brick wall which was sometimes called a 4 inch wall is:. A half brick thick brick wall. A one brick thick brick wall. The site is ba...
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Dioecious | Mark McNee
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A Personal Gardening Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Gardens as a list. Make The Garden Your Own. Examples of previous work. April 19, 2015. A plant with the male and female flowers on separate plants. For example, Holly. This entry was posted in Garden Terms Explained. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. By continuing to use the site, you agree to the use of cookies. more information.
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Garden Myths | Mark McNee
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A Personal Gardening Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Gardens as a list. Make The Garden Your Own. Examples of previous work. Category Archives: Garden Myths. Garden Myths: Number 14. September 3, 2013. It’s a dwarf conifer! Garden Myths: Number 13. August 27, 2013. Lawns are less work than borders. Garden Myths: Number 12. August 20, 2013. The fact is clematis aren’t that fussy regarding soil and will happily grow any reasonable garden soil. Garden Myths: Number 11. I have moved...
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Eucryphia × nymansensis ‘Nymansay’ | Mark McNee
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A Personal Gardening Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Gardens as a list. Make The Garden Your Own. Examples of previous work. Eucryphia nymansensis ‘Nymansay’. September 27, 2012. Eucryphia x nymansensis ‘Nymansay’. This may not be a very popular plant; I fear the name may put off some, but it should be far better known. Not only is it an evergreen with attractive foliage all year round but every late summer it disappears under a mass of white flowers. Is found in central Chile a...
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Garden Musings | Mark McNee
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A Personal Gardening Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Gardens as a list. Make The Garden Your Own. Examples of previous work. Category Archives: Garden Musings. A general discussion about gardens and gardening. Garden Myths: Number 14. September 3, 2013. It’s a dwarf conifer! Garden Myths: Number 13. August 27, 2013. Lawns are less work than borders. Garden Myths: Number 12. August 20, 2013. Garden Myths: Number 11. August 13, 2013. I have moved peonies at all times of the year a...
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How To | Mark McNee
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A Personal Gardening Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Gardens as a list. Make The Garden Your Own. Examples of previous work. Hopefully you will find these useful and if you do you may like to make a contribution to the cost of maintaining this site via the "pay now" button at the bottom of the articles. How to build a free-standing timber pergola. How to build a sleeper retaining wall. How to choose a tree. The first stage is deciding where the tree is going and why you want it ...
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Book Shelf | Mark McNee
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A Personal Gardening Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Gardens as a list. Make The Garden Your Own. Examples of previous work. As for which books I intend to include; anything as long as it's related to gardening, new or old, it doesn't mater if it's out of print, as there are many good suppliers of second handbooks. The only real criterion is that it's worth having on the bookshelf. Succulents Simplified by Debra Lee Baldwin. June 7, 2013. The book is very richly illustrated with...
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Actinidia kolomikta | Mark McNee
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A Personal Gardening Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Gardens as a list. Make The Garden Your Own. Examples of previous work. April 17, 2015. Actinidia kolomikta growing against a wall. It’s white, slightly fragrant, summer flowers are over shadowed by the foliage and as it is both. And it is only the male plant which appears to be in cultivation you are unlikely to see the fruits which are said to be edible. The closely related. Lindl are cultivated commercially for their fruit.
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How to build a sleeper retaining wall | Mark McNee
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A Personal Gardening Blog. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Gardens as a list. Make The Garden Your Own. Examples of previous work. How to build a sleeper retaining wall. April 22, 2015. Retaining walls are never cheap or easy but building one from timber railway sleepers is probably as cheap and easy as you are likely to find. As the sleepers are simply screwed together their construction is well within the abilities of most people without any specialist building experience. When deci...
