Surviving the frosts
With the right protection and pruning your perennials can make it through safely through the winter.
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Wreath success and tips
Yesterday’s wreath-making course at Sissinghurst Castle went swimmingly — with lots of happy participants and 18 beautiful hedgerow-style wreaths heading for front doors across the South East — and one all the way to Huntingdon. The sun was shining and the view through the medieval barn’s archway, across the fields to the Downs, was as
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Before we get all festive, let's remember the summer!
We just had to share a few pics from a photoshoot held here during the summer… Doesn’t it seem like a long time ago?
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Bek's Top 10, and easiest, cut flowers
You don’t need a lot of space or expertise, to grow some wonderful cut flowers – some of which just love to be cut and will grow more flowers in response. If you’d like to learn more, why not come on our next course Grow Your Own Cut Flowers course on Saturday October 3. In
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A little something I found…
While rootling around my home (once my 3 great aunties’ house) I found the following text, which is too good not to share. It was on an old postcard, marked Wannock Gardens, Polegate, Sussex – now, sadly and rather poignantly, a housing estate. Commandments of the Flowers Thou shalt learn to know the flowers of
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Get counting those butterflies…
There’s a great article in The Times this Saturday (27th) by Simon Barnes, about the demise of butterflies. Pertinent article, as July 20 to August 11 is this year’s Big Butterfly Count. Butterflies are what are known as ‘indicator species’ as they tell us a lot about how the rest of our environment is getting
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