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  • Background information

    • About me
    • About Old School Garden
    • Garden and Landscape Design
    • Heritage Gardening
    • Play Landscapes
    • Voluntary activities
  • My articles classified..

    • 12 tips to save time in the garden (12)
    • A musing: odd thoughts (21)
    • A Select Vietnamese flora (3)
    • A-Z of Garden Trees (23)
    • A-Z of Perennials (26)
    • Aussie Greens- gardens, parks and open spaces visited in trips to Australia (2)
    • Blickling Hall- rebirth of the Walled Garden (88)
    • Blogging (13)
    • Climate change and gardening (68)
    • Community Gardening (114)
    • Dear Walter – letters/info from Old School Garden (81)
    • Design (394)
    • Design My Garden – Tips to improve your plot (12)
    • Eat Me: guides to growing and using food plants (5)
    • Feature plants (189)
    • Floral Roundabouts (4)
    • Four Seasons in One Day- series on climate change and gardening (5)
    • Gardening and Gardeners: historical snapshots (42)
    • Gardening equipment and tools (67)
    • Gardening techniques (392)
    • Gardening Therapy (3)
    • GQT: your gardening queries answered (43)
    • Great Gardens (180)
    • Great Gardens: Scotland 2016 (6)
    • Grow your own food (157)
    • Growing Children- series on school gardening (7)
    • Haveringland Churchyard (1)
    • Health (15)
    • Hebridean Hop- a tour of some Scottish isles (4)
    • Heritage Gardens & gardening (285)
    • Historic landscapes (129)
    • John Evelyn's Monthly in the Garden (12)
    • Local Food (21)
    • Monthly Top ten gardening tips (12)
    • Mrs. Murphy's Laws of Gardening (14)
    • New Zealand 2019 (19)
    • Norfolk in poetry- Jack Kett (13)
    • Open Spaces (54)
    • Over My Head- looking up at architectural detailing (8)
    • Permaculture and sustainability (8)
    • Pests and diseases (28)
    • PicPosts- great photographs (811)
    • Plantax- the stories behind plant names (21)
    • Planting Patterns- wow factor pictures (41)
    • Play (205)
    • Playful Landscapes- examples (9)
    • Portuguese Gardens (31)
    • Power of 7- tips (24)
    • Recycling projects (111)
    • School and childrens' Gardening (82)
    • Soils and soil improvement (62)
    • Style Counsel: snippets on garden styles (13)
    • The Essence of Gardening in 12 Objects (12)
    • This and that (1,604)
    • West Country Gardens (24)
    • Wildlife and Nature (419)
  • Recent Posts

    • #FungiFriday: a grave situation — Daniel Greenwood
    • What did the Nettlefolds do for Christmas? — Winterbourne House and Garden
    • Great estates: the changing role of trees in the municipal housing landscape — Municipal Dreams
    • Collaborative approaches — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
    • Jekka’s Favourite 12 Herbs for Christmas — Jekka’s – Jekka’s Blogs “All About Herbs”
    • A Chance Encounter — PlayGroundology
    • Edinburgh’s 1919 Act Housing, Part II: ‘Healthy Houses for the People is the Best Public Health Insurance’ — Municipal Dreams
    • The Science of Sustainability — Specifier Review
    • Never Gets Old — PlayGroundology
    • Say Hello to the 2020 Collections Trainees — Shine A Light
    • Council Housing in Preston, Part II: ‘Changing Fashions in Planning’ — Municipal Dreams
    • Preston’s Council Housing, Part I to 1939: ‘Compactness, Convenience and Taste’ — Municipal Dreams
    • ‘Green Care’ – a positive push from Covid
    • Climate projections show extreme UK’s weather will become even more extreme — Official blog of the Met Office news team
    • Cottingham’s Council Housing, Part II from 1930: New Forms of Housing Provision — Municipal Dreams
    • Decorative Arched Footbridge, Desert Wash, East Ruston, Norfolk — Susan Rushton
    • Local Candidates Asked About Well-being of Children — PlayGroundology
    • The Role of the Women’s Housing Sub-Committee: ‘Homes fit for Heroines’ — Municipal Dreams
    • Taking advantage of good weather: Getting loads of stuff done — Vanha Talo Suomi
    • The Susans Cope With Drought — gardeninacity
    • What’s up? — NewEnglandGardenAndThread
    • Are You Sitting Comfortably – 15 — greenbenchramblings
    • Climate Change: The perfect fuel for wildfires?  — Official blog of the Met Office news team
    • ‘Till we have built Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land’: Women’s Influence on State Housing in the Era of World War 1 and After — Municipal Dreams
    • Storm Alex, so why not Storm Aiden? — Official blog of the Met Office news team
    • October in the Garden: Top 10 Tips
    • Green Flag Award- the Judge’s Gardens Competition
    • It’s gardener vs. gardener season — GardenRant
    • Darwen’s Jubilee Tower — Susan Rushton
    • Jekka’s 6 top steps to “Grow On” your herbs — Jekka’s – Jekka’s Blogs “All About Herbs”
    • If Summer Could Go On Forever — leaf and twig
    • Plant Spotlight: Salvia involucrata ‘Hadspen’ — Winterbourne House and Garden
    • The Garden at the begining of Autumn — The Cynical Gardener
    • Will Covid-19 change the future of building design? — Specifier Review
    • Atlantic tropical storms forming at a record pace — Official blog of the Met Office news team
    • The Sussex Weald: where all the mushrooms are — Daniel Greenwood
    • Report on nature-based solutions for the climate emergency published — Specifier Review
    • My Lockdown Re(dis)covery
    • End of the Dog Days — Vanha Talo Suomi
    • Transformational public service development plans approved in West Suffolk — Specifier Review
    • How changing urban streetscapes reflect post-COVID 19 outdoor cultural trends — Specifier Review
    • Council Housing in Greenock, Part II, 1918-1945: their ‘Ain Wee House’ — Municipal Dreams
    • #FungiFriday: weeping conk at Ickworth Park — Daniel Greenwood
    • Quinta de Ventozelo — Salt of Portugal
    • Plant Spotlight – Stipa gigantea — Winterbourne House and Garden
    • Social media and the gardening discourse — GardenRant
    • Fall — NewEnglandGardenAndThread
    • Council Housing in Greenock, Part I to 1918: the ‘Unhealthiest Town in Scotland’ — Municipal Dreams
    • Two Japanese Anemones — Susan Rushton
    • Are you sitting comfortably? No 14 of a very occasional series. — greenbenchramblings
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