Speke, lying just over seven miles south-east of Liverpool’s city centre, wasn’t planned as just another large council estate. The Corporation envisaged it as a ‘satellite town…planned to accommodate all classes of the community’. (1) At times, the reach of that ambition must have seemed close to fulfilment but by the 1980s some called it […]
Do it: containers You will need plenty of pots, plants, labels, grit and moss Step 1 Now the danger of frost has passed it is time to get creative with your summer container displays. Planting in pots, troughs or hanging baskets is a great way to create a focal point or hide unsightly features. Use…
via Monthly Masterclass: May — Winterbourne House and Garden
Colourful beehives were much in evidence whenever we walked in the countryside, but we were warned to steer well clear because the bees are a far more fearsome race than our placid British bees. At this time of year their main food source is the invasive acacia, so there may well be resistance to their…
Outdoor Classroom Day on 18 May is a day to step outside the classroom and climb the ladder of outdoor learning and play.
via Join in a global day to change the way children learn and play — Rethinking Childhood
En route to Glasgow – over the clouds, somewhere in the Lake DistrictThe Pineapple – an extraordinary architectural feat, on the way to EdinburghPitmuies – a captivating garden on the way to AberdeenEdzell Castle – a ruin with attitude, helped by the bright blue skiesCrarae – a Himalayan garden in the heart of Argyll and…
via Wednesday Walkabout – Great Gardens of Scotland — The Galloping Gardener
Do you remember those first clamberings, the tentative propulsion upwards, the scrambled search for a purchase with feet or hands, a roughness of bark rubbing legs and arms as they grappled with the ascent? The liberation of leaving the ground behind and entering the leafy expanse above was an exhilirating paradigm shift. The world opened […]
A lot of new gardening and plant books have landed on my mat this spring, and I need to up my book reviewing game! I like to do them justice, and spend some time reading them before I write a review, so that does create a bit of a backlog. Right at the time when…
via Book Review: The Community Gardening Handbook — The Unconventional Gardener
Charles Jenck’s Garden of Cosmic Speculation – the Holy Grail of Scottish gardens – is open to the public for just one day this year – next Sunday, 30 April – as part of the open scheme arranged by Scotland’s Gardens. I’ve been lucky enough to visit twice in the last five years – once on an…
via Garden of Cosmic Speculation open to public on 30 April 2017 — The Galloping Gardener
Hundreds of early birds will get the chance to hear the dawn chorus over the next week, as National Trust places celebrate International Dawn Chorus Day. The global event, which takes place this Sunday, will be marked by dawn chorus walks led by rangers and expert birdwatchers at more than 20 National Trust places this […]
via Celebrating International Dawn Chorus Day 2017 — National Trust Press Office
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