Category: This and that


It’s great to be in someone’s ‘top ten’ gardening blogs! Thanks Sophie 🙂

Sophie Hudson's avatarThe Forget-me-Not Cultivation Blog

I always say if you want to learn something, that can be especially tricky to ask (because usually you’re not sure what it is you’re asking), head to the internet.

Where as books can be very detailed, and in some cases terribly technical, the internet can be just the place to find simple answers that you can actually then put into practice within your own garden.

Whether it’s what shrub to prune this month, or why those leaves on your favourite plant look particularly brown you can usually find someone else has already had the same problems.

It’s the one area I find help, advice and guidance for things I’m not really sure about asking someone face to face.  It usually comes in the form of social media but something that works even better are blogs.

Today I thought I’d share with you ten blogs I refer to time and…

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Claire Colvine's avatarLove Outdoor Play

A major new feature length documentary film Project Wild Thing has been launched today and will be showing at Picturehouse and independent cinemas across the country. This inspirational film, directed by and starring David Bond (Erasing David) and produced by Ashley Jones (Green Lions), takes a witty, touching and frank look at the complex issue of why our kids have lost touch with nature, why they don’t have their independence outdoors and what happened to playing out…

The film is backed by the Wild Network, founded by a diverse group who are dedicated to working together to get children back in touch with nature and outdoor play. Founding members of the network include: Play England, Play Scotland, Play Wales, National Trust, RSPB, NHS Sustainable Development Unit, AMV BBDO, Green Lions and Swarm.

“Funny, alarming and uplifting, this film will change your…

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Tim Gill's avatarRethinking Childhood

iPhone banTechnology has an ever greater role in children’s lives, and its effects are the focus of ever more heated debate. It is easy for advocates of nature, outdoor play and everyday childhood freedoms to think that screens and gadgets are our enemy. But the truth is that things are a little more complicated than that.

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shinealightproject's avatarShine A Light

*The Shine a Light Project has been a collaborative effort involving many different departments across the museum service. To reflect this we are publishing some blogs written by contributors to the project from outside of the core team based at the superstore. This week’s blog is written by Helen Renton, Assistant Curator at Strangers Hall, and explains the origin of the Bolingbroke collection (a large proportion of the furniture removed from the 24 crates are objects that form part of the Bolingbroke collection).

The Bolingbroke Collection

By Helen Renton

Strangers’ Hall was for centuries the home of wealthy merchants and mayors of Norwich. The oldest part of the building dates from the early fourteenth century, and the house was extended and embellished by a succession of occupants. In the 1790s it was purchased by local Roman Catholic priests and served as their presbytery until 1880.

By the end of…

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greenbenchramblings's avatargreenbenchramblings

When we were visiting my mother recently I was amazed to see just how much food for wildlife the old hedge alongside her back garden was presenting to the mammals and birds and of course the odd late flying butterfly and wasp. This stretch of hedge was originally an old field boundary and it illustrates just how much damage to Mother Nature’s larder the destruction of our hedges by intensive style agriculture actually causes. Here we have a 20 yard stretch of mixed natives with an odd cultivated plant creeping in from the garden that is a veritable larder for all sorts of wildlife.

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Think of hedgerow food for wildlife and the first fruit to come to mind will be the Bramble or Blackberry. This may be simply because we enjoy a tasty nibble of these glossy black gems ourselves. We might also think of Roses with their red fruit…

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The Smell of Spring

  Spring time in Australia!

    blog post by Chas Spain

greenbenchramblings's avatargreenbenchramblings

Seating in a garden turns a display of plants into a place in which to become entranced. We only have a quarter of an acre of garden but we have a seat  around every corner and a seat to enjoy every view. I started taking photographs of seating in gardens at the beginning of last year’s garden visiting season, photographs of any bench or chair that appealed to me or seemed particularly well-placed or particularly welcoming. In this series of posts I shall choose an interesting selection for you to enjoy.

First up is this elegant metal table and chairs in a wild area of a garden away from the house where tea and cakes can be enjoyed whilst appreciating the wildlife that shares the peace that pervades this patch .

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This benches in one of the green spaces at our allotment site provides an ideal place for a picnic. Here we can sit amongst meadows of…

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‘This pallet installation named “Forêt II” is a cubic meditation place made of 800 recycled wooden pallets. With its four cardinal points oriented corners it represents the meeting and the connection of territories. This work by Justin Duchesneau and Phil Allard was presented at the 2011 Art Festival at Rideau Canal in Ottawa (Canada).’

Ever thought of creating a pallet artwork in your garden?

From 1001 pallets

Old School Gardener

shinealightproject's avatarShine A Light

Invention and beginnings

By Ann-Marie Peckham

I remember visiting the Collections Store at Beamish, County Durham a few years ago and being amazed at their bicycle collection. Seeing nearly 200 years worth of developments in the appearance and mechanics of the bicycle was fascinating. So I was pleasantly surprised when I realised that we also have a large collection of bicycles in our pre-existing racking in the Superstore, which you will be able to see when we open in spring 2014.

Now, you may be asking yourself ‘how can bicycles be that interesting? But the bicycle has had a varied, controversial, and even amusing history, which I will (attempt) to outline using some objects from our collection. However, because the history is so varied I will span this blog over two parts (so do check back in a month’s time).

From the beginning of time human beings have looked…

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