Review: Monet’s Garden by Vivian Russell
I’ve always loved Impressionist paintings and those by Monet in particular. As a student, a visit to the National Museum . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #43
Chrysanthemum ‘Dixter Orange’.
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Celebrate autumn
Two of the Cotswolds’ popular gardens offer the chance to celebrate autumn this weekend with their last big events of the . . .
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Roy Strong on Shakespeare, gardens and hanging baskets
The history of garden restoration can be traced back to the knot garden on the site of Shakespeare’s home in . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #42
Is there anything more spectacular than the seed pods of euonymus.
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Rediscovering asters
Sometimes you think you know a plant only to find there’s far more to it than you realised. Asters – . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #41
The exotic looking passion flower.
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Acers fire up for autumn
Winter bedding and bulb-buying aside, autumn can be a quiet time for nurseries. There’s a sense of winding down, taking . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #40
Japanese anemones are a reliable late summer performer.
Read morePlant-hunting at the Malvern Autumn Show
The nursery displays at the Malvern Autumn Show are always the first place I head. Mail order is all very . . .
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