Great Dixter Gardens
Make sure you take a look at the mixed borders filled with traditional English garden plants, the marvelous long border and the High Garden. If you are interested in wildlife gardening then take a look at the meadow flowers and the Barn garden – ... [... more]
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Scented Autumn Plants
It is worth visiting your local garden centre or plant mart to look for plants that will bloom in the autumn - check the label to make sure they are scented - as plants that you put in in the spring will have time to get established for an autumn ... [... more]
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English Garden Plants To Use In The Shade
Aquilegia vulgaris or Grannies bonnets - flowers in late springLily of the Valley – Convallaria majalis - a real traditional English flower - has delightfully fragrant white bell flowers in late springSolomon’s seal or Polygonatum hybridum has ... [... more]
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Gardening Tips
Here's a good tip - plan your garden to reduce the work load as you get older, I know we don't think of ourselves as ageing but forward planning will mean that you still have a lovely garden but the digging and weeding tasks are reduced. This ... [... more]
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Arbours
Arbours or bowers conjure up that English Garden feeling - one of sitting surrounded by colourful, fragrant plants – plant clematis, roses or honeysuckle and maybe a jasmine officinale – these are not too rampant and will only need a minimal ... [... more]
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English Lavender - Feminine Flower
Lavender is mentioned in the Bible and many feel it helps bring protection against evil omens. It traditionally was used to attract a worthy lover and to maintain that love in your life for all time. It was used by the Romans and became a staple ... [... more]
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Presents For English Gardeners.
English Gardens contain many decorative features – you can get many different designs for metal or wooden arches – ideal for climbing roses or honeysuckle. They often have wooden planters to match. For naming perennials and shrubs you can buy ... [... more]
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Lupins
L. arboreus (tree lupin) don’t worry it isn’t a tree but a woody evergreen shrub with loose mounds of foliage and softly fragrant flowers. It can grow to 6ft and will flower from late May until September. They come in white, lemon, violet and ... [... more]
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Rosemary, The Herb Of Remembrance.
Since Shakespeare’s time rosemary has been clipped into domes or spheres and it makes a lovely fragrant low hedge (2-3ft or 60 -90cm) and is an ideal border for a rose garden. as for rosemary I let it run all over my garden walls, not only ... [... more]
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January Flowers In An English Garden
As I write this in early January there are flowers on the Bergenia, the aubrieta, the winter flowering pansies and a surprising sprinkling of purple flowers on the Rosemary bush. The mahonia is in fully bloom and a couple of snowdrops have opened ... [... more]
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English Garden Scented Plants
Shrubs, including those that like the protection of a wall and climbers are covered. Andrew Lawson has taken some beautiful photos of honeysuckles that are essential in any English Garden - in fact all the photos are beautiful. I recommend this ... [... more]
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English Garden Weathervanes
Weathervanes (sometimes called whirligigs or weathercocks) work because they balance on pivots and as the wind blows on them, they swing around and then the arrow shows you which direction the wind is coming from. Here in England if the wind ... [... more]
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