Category Archives: Flowering plants

a little before and a little after

Posted on May 1, 2013 by admin

  These two photos show the design of the garden in year 2003.  The idea was that the formal grass paths and small circular lawn gave structure and formality to the planting which was fairly unstructured – because I am … Continue reading →

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Garden plants

Posted on April 15, 2013 by admin

We’ve had a lovely musical weekend away with the Cobweb Orchestra in Sedbergh, a school village which is overlooked by the Howgill fells in North Yorkshire, and have come home tired but very happy!   While there quite a few … Continue reading →

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Is supervision needed?!

Posted on April 11, 2013 by admin

Well, Mark has put a good couple of hours into the garden, and has been taking all the cutting back very seriously indeed. He came in to get the camera as we have lots of frog spawn in the pond … Continue reading →

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