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Farewell!

Noel Kingsbury — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:51:47 +0000

After however long it is, I’m leaving Gardening Gone Wild. It has been a great opportunity to pass on ideas, thoughts and experiences to the wider garden community, and sometimes to ask awkward questions and to provoke. I think it is time I devote some more time to my own blog, and to develop other [...]

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Ideas from the south – tree painting and DIY green walls

Noel Kingsbury — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:07:08 +0000

Bored with that tree in the garden. Get out some paint! Preferably bio-d and non-toxic of course. This installation was done at not-quite-open-yet-but-soon-will-be nature centre near Tigre, outside Buenos Aires, and linked with the town’s Fine Art Museum as part of an initiative to promote conservation of the unique delta environment. Antonia Guzman is [...]

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Gardening en Español, a green roof and other notes from Uruguay

Noel Kingsbury — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:35:56 +0000

For the third time in five years I’m lecturing in Spanish-speaking America (you can read my accounts of lecturing in Mexico here, and here – that was an experience!) . Being interpreted (see my recent post about Argentina). We always have the same discussion – why aren’t there more books and material on gardening in [...]

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I’ve discovered Chanticleer

Noel Kingsbury — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:56:06 +0000

This pic sums up Chanticleer: a great place to sit, nicely customized. A touch of whackiness, but completely sound. This is an amazing garden, not just for being a garden, but for the staff and the way it is run. Working at Chanticleer is not a job, but a mission and a passion. Fran has [...]

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Autumn Focal Points

Saxon Holt — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:32:13 +0000

Seeing as how most of the Northern Hemisphere is now experiencing autumn at one level or another, I figured it would make this next lesson on garden photography a bit more relevant if I actually show some fall photos. (Yes, California has fall color too…) The focal point of a picture is its subject, the [...]

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The peat debate – or should we really eat kittens for breakfast?

Noel Kingsbury — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:02:18 +0000

It was not my intention to write about the contentous subject of peat in gardening but a friend of mine sent me an article from the New York Times on the subject, which deserves wider distribution. So, maybe I should take the plunge. There was a time when, in the UK, we all used lots [...]

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How Steve Asbell Created The Illustration for Gardening Gone Wild’s Redesign – And A BIG Giveaway

Fran Sorin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:07:32 +0000

As soon as I knew that an illustration would be the centerpiece of the header for the redesigned Gardening Gone Wild, the first person that came to mind was Steve Asbell. I had become a big fan of both his illustrations and writing. Working with Steve was a pleasure. He was responsive to my suggestions [...]

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Autumn – our most colourful time?

Noel Kingsbury — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:31:06 +0000

I remember on my first ever trip to the US (in August/September 1992) loving the blue/violet and yellow colour scheme of roadside wildflowers, whilst driving the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, and then seeing similar mixes all the way up to Massachusetts. There must be a good reason why so many autumn perennials flower in [...]

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Garden in the Woods

Noel Kingsbury — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:15:04 +0000

Last week I spent a day doing some filming with Duncan Heather and Elspeth Briscoe for a MyGardenSchool online course on perennials I will be tutoring next year. Duncan is principal of the Oxford College of Garden Design and a noted garden designer. So, interesting to have a look around at a leading garden designer’s [...]

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Petunias and democracy – Travels in Kyrgyrzstan

Noel Kingsbury — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:00:20 +0000

Bishkek is my first experience of the former Soviet Union (USSR), words drained of real meaning to a younger generation, but for any of us who grew up and were politically aware before 1989 a major part of our consciousness of the world – but now all that seemingly indestructible grey concrete has turned to [...]

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