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Tag: Polygonatum

If you go down to the woods today..

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020Categories Uncategorized13 Comments on If you go down to the woods today..

Somewhere in the hidden recesses of my memory is something about William Robinson and the need for every gardener to set aside an acre or so of their garden for woodland. I have tried, but with a garden of around one eighth of an acre in total, I have failed. My woodland consists of the…

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Six on Saturday – 27/5/2017

May 27, 2017September 30, 2020Categories six on saturday2 Comments on Six on Saturday – 27/5/2017

One) I know it's only an optical illusion, but plants are set off better by moist dark soil than pale dry stuff. After last night's deluge, which combined the most sustained lightning I have seen in my life with rain akin to the tropical downpours I've seen in Australia, moist and dark wasn't a problem.…

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Six on Saturday – 20/5/2017

May 20, 2017September 30, 2020Categories six on saturdayLeave a Comment on Six on Saturday – 20/5/2017

One. I was going to start with a picture of dead cabbages, the rootfly having munched their way through two rows. But it was raining and going up the allotment in the rain to take a picture of dead cabbages didn't do it for me. Two. Papaver bracteata. Every year this monster astonishes me anew.…

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Shopping trip-2

May 28, 2016September 30, 2020Categories Garden plants1 Comment on Shopping trip-2

A week ago, I went to Barracott Plants on a plant hunting expedition, coming home with enough goodies to write a blog about, which I duly did. Trouble was , a couple of things I'd been wanting I was unable to find and the nursery owner was away so I was advised to come back.…

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Shopping trip

May 19, 2016September 30, 2020Categories Garden plants3 Comments on Shopping trip

You know how it goes; you go to a garden, Rosemoor in this instance and see a plant you simply must have, Polygonatum x hybridum 'Betburg' on this outing. You get home and look at the RHS website to see who is listing it; excellent, a nursery quite close by, Barracott Plants, at Gunnislake. Thought…

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