Freemantle Triangle Community Garden is a small community garden near the centre of Southampton I sometimes visit when walking with my grandsons who live nearby
Temperatures are soaring and the sun is shining and the garden looks great. Grandchildren and gardening and friends have kept me busy over the past couple of months and I have neglected my blog (We have a new grandson who was born in May)
This garden in Woking was open in May in aid of Woking Hospice
These 'giraffes' live in a front garden in Send
Our garden in May
My kitchen window sill
London Open Squares Day
Beautiful roses in the garden of Trinity Hospice which is in Clapham
This cat was in the Harleyford Road garden in Vauxhall
Bonnington Square, also in Vauxhall
These 'fairies' live in a garden which was open to raise money for Woking Cats Protection
Woking Park in June
Garden planted at The Lightbox in Woking as part of the Gertrude Jekyll exhibition
Our garden in June
View of Southampton Walls and modern day Southampton from the Tudor House Garden
Snowdrops: Live Radio Interview
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This beautiful yellow snowdrop, ‘Spindlestone Surpise’, will be available
in the 2025 Snowdrop Catalogue—no advance orders please. Our 2024 Snowdrop
Catalo...
Cloud Pruning A Climbing Rose
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I first saw cloud pruning done at Peninsula Park rose garden in Portland,
Oregon. I went there for a one-day rose pruning course and the person
teaching it...
Warm Blooms for Winter Days: GBBD, February 2024
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In Maine, we are on the downhill side of winter, more than halfway from the
winter solstice to the spring equinox. Days are getting longer, and the
higher ...
2024 Garden Color of the Year: Super silver
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[image: Silver foliage plants]
At this time of year a lot of people who like to pretend to be experts
armed with crystal balls predict trends with a concer...
Can I Store Bulbs Over Winter?
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Storing bulbs over winter, can it be done? The short answer is yes, you can
store bulbs over winter! The long answer is it depends on what kind of
bulbs ...
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My new You Tube Channel contains eleven video slide presentations of our
various garden collections.
The most recent is #one of two regarding our Orien...
How to Plant a Cactus In a Pot
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Have you ever seen the beauty of cactuses showcased in containers? Adding a
cactus to a container helps to set it apart from the rest of the landscape
an...
Matoa at Desa Seri Iskandar
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This matoa tree has a story of its own. We joined a group tour to Batam
Island way back in 2015. Over a lunch there we were served with matoa
fruits as de...
The Monarch: Long-Distance Pupation
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The migration of the monarch butterfly is a well-known natural annual
occurrence in North America. In the fall, hundreds of thousands of monarchs
wing the...
Songbirds of 2017 ~ Wood Warblers
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I so look forward to the return of wood warblers to our gardens and fields
and forest! I have a few featured from 2017 on my latest post over on my Garden
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Finally made a start on putting all of this stuff in one place; I’ve just
finished scanning in Mum’s life story, as told in 2007. The plan is to scan
in ou...
Planning a Mix of Perennials and Bulbs
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Roots, Bulbs, Corms, Rhizomes or Tubers: just think of flower bulbs, just
as other plants that you choose to add to your garden. What is the purpose
or pu...
For future reference, see Awkward Hill
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I moved from Wandsworth, in south-west London, in November 2012, and I now
live in the Cotswolds. You can read about my garden there at
Tales from Awkward H...
Geffrye Museum Garden (click on picture to view website)
Pebbles hiding
My favourite gardens
Cemetery garden in Alverstoke
Favourite Gardening Books
3000 Mile Garden by Roger Phillips and Lesley Land
All of Marjorie Fish's books
All of Christopher Lloyd's books - 'The Well Tempered Garden', 'Christopher Lloyds Garden Flowers', Dear Friend & Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening ' etc
Grow Your Own Veg - Carol Klein
Jekka's Complete Herb Book - Jekka McVicar
My favourite gardens
East Lambrook Manor (click on picture to view website)