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Noel's Garden Blog: Growing perennials in grass
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Various ramblings and musings on gardening, agriculture, food and related subjects. Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Growing perennials in grass. A question at a public lecture at the University of Gloucestershire (bet you didn’t know that Glos. had a Uni. …. well you do now! Not actually a great success, but not without some hope. 8226; Effective basal cover, combined strongly with:. 8226; Early emergence. 8226; At least some ability to effective spread by ramets, (ie. new shoots). Hitchmough, J.D. ...Wouds...
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Noel's Garden Blog: The Piet Oudolf story, and many
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Various ramblings and musings on gardening, agriculture, food and related subjects. Saturday, May 16, 2015. The Piet Oudolf story, and many. A lot of regular readers of this blog will probably be aware of the 'Oudolf Hummelo' book being 'out'. I've been meaning to write something about it for some time but been very busy. Much of the Dutch landscape is incredibly highly managed, with little room for nature. Historically, natural habitats were ruthlessly cleared out of the way. One of the side-sto...Centu...
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Noel's Garden Blog: The Garden at Montpelier Cottage in May
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Various ramblings and musings on gardening, agriculture, food and related subjects. Friday, June 12, 2015. The Garden at Montpelier Cottage in May. Actually, before I go on, the pictures here do not come across well, so I have uploaded them on to flickr. As well - they give you a much better idea. And forms of Aquilegia vulgaris. The big leaves in front are Filipendula camtschatica. Aquilegias with Cirsium rivulare atrosanguineum. To the lower left and right and our hornbeam hedge, which is trimmed to lo...
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Noel's Garden Blog: A trip to Prague
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Various ramblings and musings on gardening, agriculture, food and related subjects. Wednesday, September 10, 2014. A trip to Prague. The castle of Pruhonice. I made a flying visit to Prague last week, to do a couple of lectures to a conference - Ūdržba trvalkovych záhonů – maintaining perennial beds, I think that means. Frustratingly short, but no time wasted, with two guided tours of two immensely important parks with their botanical collections. What struck me in particular were some photographs of per...
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Noel's Garden Blog: наш будинок і сад - російською мовою
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Various ramblings and musings on gardening, agriculture, food and related subjects. Наш будинок і сад - російською мовою. Наш будинок і сад - російською мовою. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Hay on Wye, England/Wales, United Kingdom. Pic credit Andrea Jones). View my complete profile. If you want more information on any of these please contact me on: info.noel16@gmail.com. Details get increasingly sketchy later in the year, updates will be posted nearer the time. West Wales Country Gardeners. You can see my...
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Noel's Garden Blog: Historical or Wild Garden Plant Image search
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Various ramblings and musings on gardening, agriculture, food and related subjects. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Historical or Wild Garden Plant Image search. I'm currently getting towards the end of writing a book provisionally called A Garden Flora, the Origins, Ecology and History of Garden Plants,. Pictures of garden plants or ancestors of garden plants in the wild,. Images from old (pre 1950) nursery catalogues, preferably from businesses no longer in existence (to avoid permission issues),. West Wale...
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Noel's Garden Blog: Updates - EU legislation and Oudolf meadow
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Various ramblings and musings on gardening, agriculture, food and related subjects. Sunday, December 1, 2013. Updates - EU legislation and Oudolf meadow. Two updates: one on the EU proposed legislation on plant cultivars, and the other on the perennial meadow at Hummelo. Miscanthus 'Yaku-jima', in our garden last week, a good small miscanthus, but still growing a lot bigger than it does with many - that high level of phosphorus in the soil i suppose! I have been comparing annual weather statistics betwee...
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Noel's Garden Blog: A hard look at the Japanese garden - Part One
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Various ramblings and musings on gardening, agriculture, food and related subjects. Thursday, August 15, 2013. A hard look at the Japanese garden - Part One. Garden at Tenryu-ji monastery, Kyoto. Classic sand garden, pool and borrowed scenery. Some of the greatest beauty is in the detail and finishing. Paving at the Katsura Palace. Like many traditional garden styles, plentiful labour is essential. Moss when it works, is wonderful. But very often it doesn't. Ryoanji - and its worshippers. Quite right...
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Noel's Garden Blog: Beyond 'nature as virgin – garden as whore'.
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Various ramblings and musings on gardening, agriculture, food and related subjects. Monday, January 28, 2013. Beyond 'nature as virgin – garden as whore'. Nature in the city has gotta look pretty. The New York High Line. In a recent, and well-argued post, fellow blogger Thomas Rainer. Quotes landscape architect Martha Schwartz as saying that “Americans treat nature like Victorians treated women: as virgins or whores”. All this is part of a discussion about a very thought-provoking book (. Increasingly pe...
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Noel's Garden Blog: The Eden Project - a review
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Various ramblings and musings on gardening, agriculture, food and related subjects. Thursday, May 14, 2015. The Eden Project - a review. We visited the Eden Project for the first time in years the other week. So interesting to see how this fantastically imaginative project is coming on. I thought it would be interesting to 'review' it. So here are my thoughts, and its interesting to read others' comments too . read on. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hay on Wye, England/Wales, United Kingdom. Day wor...