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The Scottish Country Garden's avatarThe Scottish Country Garden

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Just a few pictures this weekend, as we have been spending all our time on drive-maintenance, filling the potholes after the ravages of winter! wpid-20130217_152855-1.jpg

Finally the woodland snowdrops are starting to appear – late this year, after quite a lot of snowfall these past few weeks. This might be one of those years where we get daffodils and snowdrops flowering at the same time as some of the daffs are well through.

The polyanthus too are starting to appear – a cheery show of yellow,  blue and dark red.

We’ve started to water the over-wintering seedlings in the greenhouse again as on sunny days, quite high temperatures are achieved. The baby wpid-20130217_143210.jpgHostas and Rudbeckias are starting to come through. As they will be too little to put out in the borders this year, we’ll pot them on from their modules to 3 inch pots which should get them to a nice size…

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What a beautiful morning it was yesterday, filled with sunshine and bits of glimmering frost and snow.  The cold air surrounded me and teased my exposed skin, making me feel alive.  A squirrel stopped by and offered a “good morning” as he scurried about his work.  As far as the eye could see, the earth was adorned with its white winter outfit protecting the sleeping grass and flowers below.  Soon, they will awaken and Spring will be here.

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Trunk colour Batsford Arboretum

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Halls Creek has many wonderful tree displays.  From the intriguing to the downright bizarre, Halls Creek offers a large variety of the wooded treats. If tree art is your thing then you could spend hours exploring the many wonderful galleries the park has to offer.  Here are some of the highlights of what we found.

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growingseeds's avatarGrowing Seeds

SAM_0917The Sequoia Room explored new land!  They walked a few blocks north to visit their local community garden. Friends were excited when they came across a plant they recognized or found hidden treasures.

Here are some things the teachers overheard Sequoia friends saying:

“Mint! Mint!”

“I see Kale! There!”

“I am using gentle touches”

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Felley Priory Gardens are described in promotional literature as “a tranquil garden” and as  “one of Nottinghamshire’s best kept secrets” but how can this be true when it is just half a mile from the M1 motorway? There is only one way to find out the answer to such mysteries visit and see for ourselves. Such a visit should be a delight as the gardens are reputed to contain many rare and unusual plants.

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So did our recent foray to Felley present us with answers to the queries above?

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Just minutes from the heavy traffic of the motorway in quiet farmland we find a narrow drive leading to a roughly surfaced, virtually empty car park. As usual coffee was our first requirement, so off to the “Farmhouse Tea Room” which was remarkably busy.

When we entered the garden we were the only visitors and a gardener opened up the garden…

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It was during a recent long and sprawling conversation with Rich Driffield at the adventure playground that the term ‘uncommon sense’ came back to me about the things we were talking about. I say ‘came back to me’ because I don’t claim ownership of that term, of course (a quick Google search shows up a 1945 science fiction short story, a different 2004 book of the same name, and other web material). In the context of the conversation I was having about children’s play though, I was sure I’d heard or read the phrase ‘uncommon sense’ in playwork circles somewhere before.

I still don’t know that source. It doesn’t so much matter. Rich and I were talking around ideas on playwork ideology, the necessity to please many people in many quarters to ultimately create a better deal for the children, children’s risky play, how we feel about that, and this…

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