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Garden on a windowsill

Noel Kingsbury — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:30:44 +0000

The January to March period in Britain is pretty dreary, its the dark getting you down as much as anything. Flowers growing on windowsills can make such a difference, and given my growing interest in bulbs, there is huge scope for making the most of light windowsills. We’ve got a nice long south-facing one in [...]

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Lily Gluttony

Tovah — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:18:01 +0000

I got “the look” tonight. It was delivered by the lady who walks here somethingorother-poo and it’s given to all of us who have too many lilies in life. You know “the look.” It combines a stare of disbelief, a roll of the eyes, a covetous sigh, and the growl of sheer, unabashed envy (the [...]

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Losing the Lawn

Tovah — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 05:49:07 +0000

My neighbor pulled beside me on my daily walk and rolled down her window. “Sorry,” she said apologetically, “but my lawn mower is on the fritz.” I ask you = Do I look like the type of person who loves a lawn? Do I strike you as the type who goes ballistic at the first [...]

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Fritillary Gallery

Fran Sorin — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:55:00 +0000

By Andrea Jones I love fritillaries – they are so elegant and graceful. Most of the species below were photographed at the nursery of Jim and Jenny Archibald in Wales, JJ Archibald Seeds. Very sadly our friend Jim died of cancer in August last year; so this was a particularly good opportunity to pay tribute [...]

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Spring Contained

Tovah — Sun, 15 May 2011 06:00:42 +0000

It was a serious fumble. In bulb-planting terms, it was as close as I ever want to totter on the brink of disaster. Are we all in agreement that autumn bulb planting is akin to gambling? You continue ordering bulbs until suddenly the game shuts down. In a good year, the stakes aren’t shut down [...]

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Hortus Bulborum — Soooo Yesterday

Tovah — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:12:14 +0000

Just call me a relic. That’s right — rub it in — I’m obsolete. And guess what. Some of my best friends are equally archaic. And here comes the confession — my garden is a total museum. If something is old (the older, the better), I automatically yearn to grow it. It’s not hip, it’s [...]

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Daffodilophilia

Noel Kingsbury — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:41:25 +0000

Daffodils at Acorn Bank garden, Cumbria, UK, mostly wild Narcissus pseudonarcissus crossed with some old varieties genetically close to the original wild species. Photo:NK. Daffodils are somehow the quintessential spring flower. The appearance of their distinctive yellow flowers is a sure sign that winter has either ended or is about to soon. Unlike the tulip, [...]

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Craving Color South African-Style

Tovah — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:45:48 +0000

Let us talk about lust. I’m speaking of the insidious longing that grips a girl who pretty much has it all — botanically speaking. I’m talking about the urge that makes someone yearn after her neighbor’s bulbs. It’s depraved. It’s desire run amok. It’s sick. And Debra Lee Baldwin — with her talk of hundreds [...]

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Snowdrops

Fran Sorin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 06:00:00 +0000

Written by Harry Pierik In his first article for GGW, A Hidden Paradise In the City, Harry introduced us to his magnificent Dutch garden. In this article, he shares some of the 200 different kinds of snowdrops that he has collected. It’s a pictoral delight! Harry has produced a short film ‘Garden of Eden Snowdrops in the Hidden [...]

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The Refrigerator Exposed

Fran Sorin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 06:30:31 +0000

Written by Tovah Martin So secretly – while all this was going on – the refrigerator was having a life of its own. While the amaryllis were blooming on the windowsill and the bulbs in the ex-lawn were laying dormant under their six feet of snow (the plowmen cameth) – deep in the caverns of [...]

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