I love the sight of a silver-lined oak leaf and December is the month to find them.
via The Sussex Weald: the realm of the ancient — Daniel Greenwood
Nigel Boldero aka 'Old School Gardener'
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- 12 tips to save time in the garden (12)
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- A-Z of Garden Trees (23)
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- Gardening and Gardeners: historical snapshots (42)
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- GQT: your gardening queries answered (43)
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- Hebridean Hop- a tour of some Scottish isles (4)
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- Monthly Top ten gardening tips (12)
- Mrs. Murphy's Laws of Gardening (14)
- New Zealand 2019 (19)
- Norfolk in poetry- Jack Kett (13)
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- Plantax- the stories behind plant names (21)
- Planting Patterns- wow factor pictures (41)
- Play (205)
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- Power of 7- tips (24)
- Recycling projects (110)
- School and childrens' Gardening (81)
- Soils and soil improvement (62)
- Style Counsel: snippets on garden styles (13)
- The Essence of Gardening in 12 Objects (12)
- This and that (1,455)
- West Country Gardens (24)
- Wildlife and Nature (419)
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Recent Posts
- Houghton Hall Part 1 – Richard Long at Houghton — greenbenchramblings
- Going with the FLO — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s Desert Inspiration — gardeninacity
- 2019 Media Perspectives on Play – An Even Dozen — PlayGroundology
- Perth newspaper vendor, Jimmy could make beer run up hill — TIME GENTS
- Council Housing in Shrewsbury, Part II: the Post-War Housing Drive — Municipal Dreams
- New Zealand 2019: #20- Doubtful Sound, Fjordland, South Island
- Council Housing in Shrewsbury, Part I: ‘Shrewsbury’s first garden suburb’ — Municipal Dreams
- The wines of Wine & Soul — Salt of Portugal
- New Zealand 2019: #19- Hot stuff, Rotorua
- ACER PALMATUM ‘BLOODGOOD’ — The Garden of Eaden
- New Zealand 2019: #18- on the road
- New Zealand 2019: #17- Art installation, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum, Wellington
- New Zealand 2019: #16- The steepest street in the world, Dunedin
- New Zealand 2019: #15- Napier Shop front
- New Zealand 2019: #14- Biosecurity to protect a Kauri tree colony
- New Zealand 2019: #13- Queenstown Steamer
- Grasses at the year’s end. — greenbenchramblings
- New Zealand 2019: #12- Maori Art
- December Blooms: Out for the Count — Rambling in the Garden
- New Zealand 2019: #11- Devonport Post Office
- Playback — PlayGroundology
- A Winter Cleaning for the Birdhouses — gardeninacity
- New Zealand 2019: #10- Fernery
- Four Seasons in One Day (4): the Well – Informed Gardener and Climate Change
- Smelted chocolate — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
- New Zealand 2019: #9- Auckland Sky Tower
- Four Seasons in One Day (3): Climate Change and the Constant Gardener
- Actual Good News, from Prison Gardens — GardenRant
- New Zealand 2019: #8- Gillespie’s Beach, near Hokitika, South Island
- Four Seasons in One Day (2): Preparing the garden for climate change
- Opposition publican ‘cut the grass’ on the Blue Duck’s grand opening — TIME GENTS
- New Zealand 2019: #7- Rotorua Museum
- Four Seasons in One Day (1): Climate change and the garden
- A canal-side garden in winter – John’s Garden Part 2 — greenbenchramblings
- New Zealand 2019: #5- Christchurch..remembering those lost in the 2011 earthquake
- New Zealand 2019: #4- Auckland Botanical Gardens
- January- top ten gardening tips
- The Sussex Weald: the realm of the ancient — Daniel Greenwood
- New Zealand 2019: #3- THAT Tree in Lake Wanaka
- The Winter King — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
- New Zealand 2019:#2- Sunlit Cleomes at Napier Botanical Gardens
- Drinkers join the Salvos in Christmas carols outside South Brisbane pub — TIME GENTS
- New Zealand 2019: #1 Maori Chief
- The Story of the Christmas song, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” — My Good Time Stories
- Dear Walter…..a letter to Walter de Grasse, 27th December 2019
- The generosity of cork oaks — Salt of Portugal
- The Great Hydrangea Experiment — Nitty Gritty Dirt Man
- Woodland enterprise — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
- The Treasury Hotel, Brisbane — TIME GENTS
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