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Our London Garden – The Frustrated Gardener
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The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman. The Making of the Garden. Posts About the Garden. The Making of the Garden. Potted hostas revel in the cool shade of our urban garden. Highgate Hill, North London. North East facing. Virtually sunless in winter with morning sun in the spring, summer and autumn. Sheltered by London brick walls. Heavy clay and subsoil over a disused school playground. Far from ideal growing conditions! 8216;Patriot’ is one of my favourites. I had in mind quite an overgrown forma...
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The Making of Our Coastal Garden – The Frustrated Gardener
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The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman. The Making of the Garden. Posts About the Garden. The Making of the Garden. The Making of Our Coastal Garden. Filling the shady corners with potted hostas and the sunny corners with standard olive trees, lavenders and geraniums. In the early years we chose pastels for our sunny courtyard. A magazine article about designer Wayne Hemmingway had also inspired me with its images of a long outdoor dining table, backed by lush planting and statement lighting. And so...
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Que Sera Sera …. – The Frustrated Gardener
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The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman. The Making of the Garden. Posts About the Garden. The Making of the Garden. By The Frustrated Gardener. July 31, 2015 8:38 am. August 2, 2015. Que Sera Sera …. Trachelospermum jasminoides –. A flawless sheet of sweetly fragrant white blossom. We do hope you can come along and share our garden with us. For those who can’t there will be a full update on The Frustrated Gardener next week. Read about last year’s open day. Read about our new garden project. On July...
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The Watch House NGS Open Weekend 2015 – The Frustrated Gardener
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The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman. The Making of the Garden. Posts About the Garden. The Making of the Garden. By The Frustrated Gardener. August 4, 2015 6:30 pm. August 7, 2015. The Watch House NGS Open Weekend 2015. Pots on the front door steps. Sunday was an altogether more relaxed affair. Visitors trickled in steadily, allowing them plenty of time to get a real sense of the space. Entering the garden along a scented tunnel of. I enjoyed a long chat with two ladies from Deal who are organisi...
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Plant List – The Frustrated Gardener
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The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman. The Making of the Garden. Posts About the Garden. The Making of the Garden. Santa Cruz ironwood) – splendid ferny foliage and netted, peeling, red bark. The birds love it for fashioning their nests. Flowers, like a white achillea, appeared for the first time this year. 8211; (Japanese green olive, above) – sculptural small tree with glossy evergreen leaves. Best allowed to develop itself into a brooding, cloud-like shape. A rare, fabulous, South African shrub ...
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The Making of our London Garden – The Frustrated Gardener
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The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman. The Making of the Garden. Posts About the Garden. The Making of the Garden. The Making of our London Garden. Victorian children would once have used this spot as a playground. Quite a task, and one which took four long nights trudging in and out through our flat. Various forms of lighting mean that we can enjoy the garden in the evenings. Ideally we’d have given the rich mix of loam, composted wool and well-rotted bracken a chance to settle, but it was a...
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Daily Flower Candy: Viper’s Bugloss – The Frustrated Gardener
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The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman. The Making of the Garden. Posts About the Garden. The Making of the Garden. By The Frustrated Gardener. August 8, 2015 6:13 pm. August 11, 2015. Daily Flower Candy: Viper’s Bugloss. Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of echiums. I love their jewel-coloured flowers, the way they attract bees to the garden and their incredible range of stature; from sprawling Echium tuberculatum. To sky rocketing Echium pininana. A biennial, viper’s...
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Our Coastal Garden – The Frustrated Gardener
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The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman. The Making of the Garden. Posts About the Garden. The Making of the Garden. Our tiny coastal garden is a quiet haven in a bustling seaside town. It’s packed with subtropical plants and dominated by foliage of all shapes, sizes and textures. Exuberant flowers introduce drama and colour through the spring and summer. Sheltered on four sides, it’s a perfect place for entertaining guests and our many feathered friends. Kent, on the east coast of England. I seem to...
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Agave Aggravation at the Italianate Glasshouse – The Frustrated Gardener
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The life and loves of a time-poor plantsman. The Making of the Garden. Posts About the Garden. The Making of the Garden. By The Frustrated Gardener. August 7, 2015 8:09 am. August 29, 2015. Agave Aggravation at the Italianate Glasshouse. Today, the elegant Italianate Glasshouse is home to vines and succulents. A prettier glasshouse on this scale it’s hard to imagine, but this year something extraordinary has happened to temporarily alter its elegant silhouette. A specimen of. The flower stalk of. For now...
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