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Site of the Succulent Celebration

Debra Lee Baldwin — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:00:00 +0000

Will you be at the Succulent Celebration and book launch June 7-8 near San Diego? I’d love to see you there! To entice you, here are a few glimpses of the nursery that’s hosting it, Waterwise Botanicals. Aeonium ‘Zwartkop’, in pots and on the hillside, is one of the succulents that the nursery sells a lot [...]

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A new look at the potager – Cambo innovates again

Noel Kingsbury — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:08:15 +0000

The potager – that ornamental version of the vegetable garden was always a bit precious. Too many people had visited Chateau Villandry on the Loire and thought they could do a mini-version. The results were all too often a neurotic assemblage of over-controlled vegetables that no-one dare harvest as it would spoil the picture. I [...]

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Whimsy and Provocation

Saxon Holt — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:51:44 +0000

We interrupt the regularly scheduled garden photography lesson to bring you some breaking news. While I was writing this lesson in The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop, controversy erupted. Provocation in the world of gardens and art ! National scandal in “hip, pretentious art” at the Berkeley Botanical Garden where an on-site art exhibit using recycled [...]

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First open the garden, then pour the tea

Noel Kingsbury — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:42:07 +0000

Opened our garden on Sunday, for the National Garden Scheme, which for those of you who don’t know it, raises money for charities through encouraging private gardens to open to the public. They have been running since 1927, and now have thousands of gardens in the famous Yellow Book guide. Its not the [...]

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Why Sissinghurst Has Continued – For More Than 70 Years – To Inspire Gardeners From All Over The World

Fran Sorin — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:57:39 +0000

One of the greatest collaborations in the making of a garden is that of Vita Sackville West and her husband Harold Nicholson. Here’s a peek at Sissinghurst, one of the most famous and loved gardens in the world. For the history of Sissinghurst, visit The National Trust website. More about Vita and a love letter [...]

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RIGHT UP THERE – INVEREWE

Noel Kingsbury — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:57:21 +0000

This is one of those really famous gardens, but in such a remote location that you don’t just drop in. Fifty miles from the nearest supermarket, inform my hosts, as if this is now the definition of distance from civilization or maybe survival. Inverewe on the north-west coast of Scotland is famous as a ‘sub-tropical’ [...]

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Photographing foliage

Saxon Holt — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:49:46 +0000

A garden photograph is not simply a landscape photo taken in a garden. It should communicate something about gardening, something that enlarges the viewer’s understanding and appreciation of gardens. This photo of fresh emerging, nearly chartreuse foliage of Rhododendron hyperythrum is a fine landscape photo, a nice leaf pattern with a sense of vibrant young leaves unfolding, [...]

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From the seventeenth century

Noel Kingsbury — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:39:24 +0000

Godolphin House in Cornwall, is a relatively recent National Trust acquisition. A great house until the 17th century when the money began to run out, it never got ‘modernized’ by Capability Brown or his cohorts, so retains old formal features. Previous owners popped in the old rose bush and tree peony but little else, or [...]

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Hard Light – Back Light

Saxon Holt — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:20:40 +0000

There was a time when I would never shoot in harsh, hard light. Bright, strong, contrasty light tends to have deep, black shadows and no color subtlety. As a garden photographer, when the sun came into the garden I would retreat to the shadows where the light was soft. But I am also a California [...]

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Picture This – Winter Trees

Saxon Holt — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:58:14 +0000

Our loyal readers know “Picture This” has been a popular Gardening Gone Wild photo contest over the years, where we invite professional garden photographers to pick a theme and hand out awards. It has been a great way for readers to learn together and link their contest photo in their own blogs to the GGW [...]

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