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Signs of spring…

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18/02/2013

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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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San Lorenzo Forest – Panama

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Beautiful morning in the neighborhood

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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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PicPost: Great Garden @ Chatsworth House

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17/02/2013

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Picpost: Winter Colour

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16/02/2013

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Tree Art of Halls Creek

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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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A Felley Foray

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15/02/2013

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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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PicPost: Great Garden @ Oxford Botanic Garden

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Oxford Botanic Garden  ‘was founded in 1621 with a mission “To promote the furtherance of learning and to glorify nature”. In the almost 400 years since then, although many people and plants have been involved in the history of the Garden we continue to educate as many people as possible about the importance of plants, to help conserve plants around the world and to support teaching and research at the University and beyond.

Visit inspiring herbaceous borders, glasshouses that take you around the World or simply relax in the oldest Botanic Garden in Britain. The Botanic Garden is the most compact, yet diverse collection of plants in the World right in the heart of the city centre and is open throughout the year for you to visit and enjoy.’

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Tinge of the unknown

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Halls Creek Wood preserve is a beautiful but somewhat creepy place.  The preserve is meant to be rustic and undeveloped.  Living in neat suburbia, I am accustomed to everything being in order and well manicured.  Perhaps this is why, being in a place like this, makes me feel like something mystical is nearby.  Regardless, the beauty of the land, coupled with the tinge of the unknown, makes this a fun place to explore.

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PicPost: Great Garden @ The Lost Gardens of Heligan

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14/02/2013

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The Lost Gardens of Heligan  (meaning ‘willow tree garden’ in cornish), near Mevagissey, Cornwall  are one of the most popular botanical gardens in the UK. The garden is typical of the nineteenth century Gardanesque style, with areas of different character and in different design styles.

The gardens were created by members of the Cornish Tremayne family, over a period from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the 20th century, and still form part of the family’s estate. The gardens were neglected after the 1st World War, and restored only in the 1990s, a restoration that was the subject of several popular television programmes and books.

The gardens now boast a fabulous collection of aged and colossal rhododendrons and camellias, a series of lakes fed by a ram pump over a hundred years old, highly productive flower and vegetable gardens, an Italian garden, and a stunning wild area filled with primaeval-looking sub-tropical tree ferns called “The Jungle”. The gardens also have Europe’s only remaining pineapple pit, warmed by rotting manure, and two figures made from rocks and plants known as the Mud Maid and the Giant’s Head (see pic).

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