A taste of heritage apples
With Apple Day approaching, I’ve been out to Snowshill Manor to find out about their heritage apples. It’s the names . . .
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Author: The Chatty Gardener
Cheering up Mondays #94
The simple elegance of a pelargonium.
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James Alexander-Sinclair talks Chelsea, design and some lucky falls
“Rosa ‘Mutabilis’,” says James Alexander-Sinclair decisively when I ask for his favourite plant. He then adds that yesterday it was . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #93
An autumn star.
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Pan-Global Plants: a nursery offering something different
In some ways, it’s apt that the road to Pan-Global Plants should be somewhat unnerving. A turning through imposing gates . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #92
Kniphofia rooperi
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Malvern Autumn Show: news, inspiration and plants
Garden shows always take me a long time to explore and the Malvern Autumn Show is one of the slowest. . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #91
Dahlia ‘Carol’s Spanish Dancer’
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Hunting out the planthunter: a chat with Nick Macer
Ahead of his Cheltenham lecture, Nick Macer talks about design, Gardeners’ World and why gardeners deserve better Britain may be . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #90
Dahlia ‘Furka’
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