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Spring Zing

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02/05/2020

Euphorbia polychroma in Old School Garden

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Bird Songs | Find out about Bird Calls in the UK – The RSPB

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01/05/2020

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-songs/

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Capability Brown | Explore Churches

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https://www.explorechurches.org/capability-brown

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#FungiFriday: a special day in the New Forest — Daniel Greenwood

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The New Forest is a National Park in Hampshire, southern England. It is home some of the most intact stretches of semi-natural woodland in Europe. Semi-natural woodland equals mushrooms.

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Gardening in the time of Coronavirus — Out of my shed

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30/04/2020

What unbelievably strange times we’re all going through. Along with many others, I’ve been self-isolating at home as one of the household has suspicious symptoms and I feel very lucky to have a garden, albeit a small London pocket-sized version. And with so much spare time at home, it’s going to be a bumper year […]

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Plant Spotlight — Winterbourne House and Garden

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29/04/2020

There are lots of different types of Japanese cherry planted in the garden at Winterbourne. We’ve got Prunus x yedoensis planted in the Geographical Beds, with single white flowers blooming in March and April. There’s a Prunus ‘Kanzan’ with double pink flowers that blooms slightly later in the Car Park. And blooming even later still…

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Fritillaria Imperialis – The Crown Imperial Fritillary — Susan Rushton

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28/04/2020

Fritillaria imperialis are very attractive in flower, although they are decidedly pongy when grown in a big group. Folk names for them include Crown imperial and imperial fritillary. Walking around a woodland garden last spring, my nose picked up something foxy in the air. I thought I knew what it was, but not where it […]

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Two Stained Glass Panels From Gloucester and Glasgow Cathedrals — Susan Rushton

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27/04/2020

This lovely work of stained glass is part of the centrepiece of a triptych in the cloisters at Gloucester Cathedral showing St Agnes, St Mary and St Dorothy, by Morris & Co, 1924.

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All Is Leaf — Secret Gardener

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26/04/2020

Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472 – 1553) “To divide the united, to unite the divided, is the life of nature; this is the eternal systole and diastole, the eternal collapsion and expansion, the inspiration and expiration of the world in which we move. I compare the earth and her atmosphere to a great living […]

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Spicebush and Forsythia — gardeninacity

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25/04/2020

Spicebush (Lindera benzoin) is a native alternative to Forsythia that’s certainly worth considering. It’s a shrub that offers much more than yellow flowers in spring.

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