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My life as an intern, foodie, and general crazy person. Day 43- the flourists. Dear blog, I have left you for another…. Http:/ flourists.wordpress.com/. 8211; a joint blog between my best friend Amy and myself, about (what else? Pretty things…usually pastries and flowers. Maybe I will return to you in the future. In the meantime, enjoy! Comments : Leave a Comment. Follow me via e-mail. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 1 other follower.
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A Year At Great Dixter: January 2013
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Wednesday, 23 January 2013. Plant ident 09/01/2013 - Umbellifers. 1 Oenanthe lachenali -. Aka Parsley Water Dropwort. According to Frances Rose's 'The Wildflower Key', all Water Dropworts are poisonous. Physic Purple' leaf - one might not so readily associate this with umbellifers but there are a category of plants in the Apiaceae family that have yucca like leaves with little spikes. In the Barn Garden. Physic Purple', late September in the Long Border. Aka Giant Fennel, Ferula glauca. Have bleached to ...
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A Year At Great Dixter: July 2013
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013. Weather: 13 - 14°C grey and cloudy. The meadow down at the farm complex, in year two it is already full of wildflowers - Leucanthemum vulgare. Red and white clover, Centauria nigra. Knapweed) and lots more. Topiary lawn in April full of tall meadow buttercups ( Ranunculus acris. With the two cotinus (Smoke Bush). Underneath the green cotinus are Cow Parsley ( Anthriscus sylvestris. Which is very poisonous). This quiet meadow in between spaces it began with Fritillarias. Which I w...
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A Year At Great Dixter: June 2013
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Wednesday, 26 June 2013. Chelsea chop and paintbrushes - behind the scenes of the Chelsea Flower Show. A month ago I had the privilege of getting a pass to see the centenary Chelsea Flower Show a couple of days before it opened, and before the glitzy and glamorous strided through the doors. Many were still in the thick of setting up, power water misters seems to be the order of the day and the finesse of the work went down to people brushing soil off plant leaves with a paint brush. It never ceases to me...
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A Year At Great Dixter: May 2013
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013. Weather: 12, grey and cloudy, a shy sun. Very heavy rain towards the end of the day. We helped her clear one of the bed near a pond so that she can properly plant it up to increase interest. We took out spent Narcissus. Bulbs and a type of Geranium. That has spread itself around extensively. The task was not so straightforward as every inch was riddled with ground elder ( Aegopodium podagraria). And Enchanter's nightshade ( Circaea lutetiana. Left - right, starting from the top).
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A Year At Great Dixter: August 2013
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Friday, 16 August 2013. Planting up the Exotic. Weather: It went up to about 16°C apparently, but felt colder. Worked with gardener Graham to clear an area in the Exotic garden for planting, taking up old Hedychium. Plants and some very old roots of a Yucca. And potted on anything that looked like it still had life. In that area we planted Colocasia esculenta. A banana Musa basjoo. I did more planting in the Exotic Garden, the Yucca elephantipes. What the island looked like a few weeks after. The wind ca...
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A Year At Great Dixter: New adventures
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Thursday, 29 May 2014. This blog is now finished, to see my current work please go to hortiventure.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Maggie Tran was the 2012-13 Christopher Lloyd and Historic Botanical Garden Bursary Scheme (HBGBS) Scholar at Great Dixter. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Follow her new blog here. 169;2012-13 Maggie Tran.
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A Year At Great Dixter: December 2012
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Saturday, 15 December 2012. Plant ident 5/12/2012 - Bulbs. From top left to right:. This is technically a corm - a 'bulbo-tuber' - a modified plant stem rather than a modified leaf in the case of a 'bulb' and a modified root in the case of a 'root'. A corm that has been buried deep in the ground can be brought out of dormancy if brought closer to the surface and having easier access to light). Distinctive by their onion layered wrappings which are fleshy leaves that protect the embryo. Which has small je...
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A Year At Great Dixter: May 2014
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Thursday, 29 May 2014. This blog is now finished, to see my current work please go to hortiventure.com. Sorry for the delay, but finally here is my very last post for this blog. Time moves fast, the two new scholars that started at Dixter when I had finished have already been plugging away at their blogs - the cycle of the garden goes round again, through new eyes and voices. I have started my new adventures! Ideas, thoughts and explorations will be highlighted in my new blog: Hortiventure. I didn't full...
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