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Pennine Gardening: Malus x 'Harry Baker', S. raulstonii Hartlage Wine
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A blog to record progress on creating a pennine garden. Friday, 14 May 2010. Malus x 'Harry Baker', S. raulstonii Hartlage Wine. Our crab apple has just started flowering, finally! X 'Harry Baker' last year which has dark leaves, exceptionally colourful, dark pink flowers in spring and finally large, ruby-red fruit in autumn that is edible. At the same time, the deciduous shrub Sinocalycanthus raulstonii. This hybrid between a Calycanthus. Friday, May 14, 2010. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Pennine Gardening: Corydalis flexuosa "Purple Leaf" and Aconitum episcopale
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A blog to record progress on creating a pennine garden. Monday, 10 May 2010. Corydalis flexuosa "Purple Leaf" and Aconitum episcopale. I picked up this exciting Corydalis from the RHS garden centre at Harlow Carr. In my opinion. As this plant is clumping up nicely, i am hoping in can start to divide late autumn this year. The plant at the back is a climbing aconitum, A. episcopale. Which has lovely dissected foliage and climbs up from ground level each year. Bought last year at Dove Cottage. Duchy of Cor...
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Gardens' Opinions: Is it essential to have a knowledge of garden history to be a good garden/landscape designer?
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Thursday, 5 November 2009. Is it essential to have a knowledge of garden history to be a good garden/landscape designer? I suppose the answer is "No, not really", when you consider that most garden designs are for personal places of beauty and pleasure for the clientS. and yet, and yet. Designers such as Kim Wilkie and Tom Stuart Smith both often work within historical settings, either re-creating a period garden or introducing contemporary design into. Nothing to do with the gardens? Yes, I do feel that...
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about Duncliffe Manor… | hazel tree
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Travels in india…. About Duncliffe Manor…. The journal of an English country estate with sound gardening advice and lovely photographs. About Duncliffe Manor…. Duncliffe Manor and all who live and work there are to be found somewhere between my imagination and yours. They have absolutely no resemblance to any of my clients, neither past, present or future. Yet the aches of my old bones, scorned by the elements of weather, bear testimony to the realness of these tales…. Be cool and share! The secret to ha...
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Pennine Gardening: Ajuga reptans
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A blog to record progress on creating a pennine garden. Sunday, 16 May 2010. Despite the unseasonal cold,. Has been steadily colonising it surroundings and has produced its blooms right on time. We have two varieties planted in the purple border,. Braunhertz' and the much more rare. Little court pink' which has lovely pink (in stead of the usual blue! Nurseries, and am still looking for. Alba' to add to our white borders. Sunday, May 16, 2010. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). May frost, A. inermis.
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Pennine Gardening: Finally, some warmth and bluebells!
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A blog to record progress on creating a pennine garden. Wednesday, 19 May 2010. Finally, some warmth and bluebells! We finally have hit close to 20 degrees C this week, and more of that is to come according to forecasts (finally! We have had some bluebells opening already, but they now have truly started flowering in their thousands and turning our hill blue (the picture is from spring 2009, but i'll make some new ones for a bluebell dedicated post end this week)! Pocahontas', the x hyacinthiflora's.
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Pennine Gardening: Acaena family
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A blog to record progress on creating a pennine garden. Friday, 14 May 2010. Esides the excellent purple ground cover. A inermis var. purpurea. See my post of 13 May 2010), there are additional colours available in the. Family. I planted. Kupferteppich' (3rd picture), coppery foliage, white burs, red/brown seed heads),. Blue Haze' (2nd picture), sturdy stems with excellent blue coloured leaves),. Finely cut leaves of pewter, mauve tinged leave on bronze stems) and. Friday, May 14, 2010.
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Pennine Gardening: Viola cornuta, scented flowers spring till autumn!
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A blog to record progress on creating a pennine garden. Sunday, 9 May 2010. Viola cornuta, scented flowers spring till autumn! Violas are excellent front of border perennials that flower from spring till autumn, often with scented flowers. Many of them have started flowering now in our garden. The low mats of evergreen foliage require a tidy up after winter and some varieties self-seed. We acquired a whole range in white, blue or pink colours from Dove Cottage. Pink, does not self-seed), Victoria's blush.
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Pennine Gardening: May 2010
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A blog to record progress on creating a pennine garden. Saturday, 22 May 2010. Summer weather and tree paeonies. With the weekend temperatures well above 20 C, a whole range of plants that should have flowered a bit earlier (but didn't because of the unseasonal cold snap) are catching up now. My tree paeonies have all started flowering in response to a bit of sunshine. P. delavayi. In the red border has produced lovely dark red flowers with maroon stamens, while two P. rockii. Talking about pruning, our W.
