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Snowdrop Valley

Posted on January 31, 2012 | Leave a comment

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Snowdrop Valley, near Wheddon Cross on Exmoor, is open to visitors from Saturday 4th February until Sunday 4th March 2012. This remote valley with its magnificent blanket of snowdrops has been opening for fifteen years. The Snowdrop Valley Park and Ride service transports passengers down into the valley. Buses run from 10:30am to 3:50pm from the village car park at Wheddon Cross, next to the Rest and Be Thankful Inn and there is a marked walking route down into the valley for the more energetic. The final week allows walking access only to the snowdrops.Contact snowdropvalley@googlemail.com for more details.

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RHS Autumn Harvest Show

Posted on November 4, 2011 | Leave a comment

Autumn Harvest Show at Vincent Square

This is always my favourite of the shows at Vincent Square – it is full of late autumn colour and magnificent displays of fruit and vegetables.  This one was no exception and was full of enthusiastic gardeners buying plants and oohing and aahing  over the perfectly manicured giant vegetables.

Leek soup anybody?

Nerine display at RHS

 

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A glimpse of Tatton

Posted on July 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

It’s #rhstatton from your Northern Correspondent, Daniel Carruthers.

One of the football club gardens that caught my eye was 'This is Anfield' by Ann Picot

'A Stitch in Time Saves Nine' by Daniela Coray

Capturing this garden in it’s entirety was near impossible due to the crowds surrounding Monty Don and Andy Sturgeon. I should add the crowds could have been there to appreciate the beautiful planting and not the celebrities.

'Rider on the Storm' garden by Alexandra Frogatt

The vertical planting caught my eye having read Stephanie’s post about it at the recent Hampton Court Show.

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The End of the Tail

Posted on July 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

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I was rather bowled over by this Sempervivum dog - it gets my prize for ingenious use of plants

I’m not a great fan of sculpture in the garden (unless it’s very old and beautiful or a Henry Moore) but both of these made me smile – the sempervivum dog was accompanied by some equally appealing deer and the ‘nuts and bolts’ horse was staggeringly well made with its marvellous bicycle chain mane.  I think I would have liked it even better if it hadn’t been so shiny.

Sculpted out of discarded machine parts in Africa - not for y garden but brilliantly executed

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Naturally Inspired

Posted on July 13, 2011 | Leave a comment

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It was hard to believe that this pond isn't a permanent fixture - it even had a dragonfly flitting around

WWF garden evoked a chalk stream

I'm a great fan of the use of hoggin (compressed clay and gravel) to create paths. Here it curves round a log-filled rill

One of the strongest themes at the show was of gardens that looked more like fragments of countryside, from the wildlife pond in the RHS Edible Garden to the orchard in the Copella Garden which also featured an (in my opinion) underused material – hoggin. Its soft tones and versatility mean it can be used in a free-form manner like it has been here.

A very real looking rough track wending in front of the turf-roofed cottage

Copella's garden was fringed by an orchard

A white cliff and seaside planting in one of the Poet's gardens

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