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Reggie’s Beans

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24/05/2017

I couldn’t resist sharing this wonderful picture of our friends’ son Reggie. Last Harvest time he came along to see me on my stall at the Harvest Festival event at the local church, where children (and adults) could sow a Broad Bean seed to take home in a pot, nurture on the windowsill and plant out in late autumn…here’s the result! (I must say it’s rather more impressive than my own efforts). Well done Reggie!

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Windsor Cottage…

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23/05/2017

Looking back to a sunny summer’s day! Off down the A49 trunk road into Herefordshire for another visit to enjoy a fellow NGS, Yellow book garden. Windsor Cottage is near the village of Dilwyn and described as a wildlife friendly half-acre garden which has just completed a 5 year redesign. This proved to be […]

via Another Yellow Book Garden: Windsor Cottage — greenbenchramblings

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Standen Restored…

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22/05/2017

A five year restoration project at one of the country’s most important Arts and Crafts gardens has been completed at the National Trust’s Standen in West Sussex. The impressive house at Standen, with its breath-taking views over the High Weald and Weir Wood Reservoir, was designed for James Beale and his family in the late […]

via 1920s Arts and Crafts garden returns to its heyday as five year restoration is completed at Standen — National Trust Press Office

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Speke…

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21/05/2017

Speke, lying just over seven miles south-east of Liverpool’s city centre, wasn’t planned as just another large council estate. The Corporation envisaged it as a ‘satellite town…planned to accommodate all classes of the community’. (1) At times, the reach of that ambition must have seemed close to fulfilment but by the 1980s some called it […]

via The Speke Estate, Liverpool: a ‘satellite town…planned to accommodate all classes of the community’ — Municipal Dreams

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Monthly Masterclass…May

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20/05/2017

Do it: containers You will need plenty of pots, plants, labels, grit and moss Step 1 Now the danger of frost has passed it is time to get creative with your summer container displays. Planting in pots, troughs or hanging baskets is a great way to create a focal point or hide unsightly features. Use…

via Monthly Masterclass: May — Winterbourne House and Garden

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Bees and Beasties…

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19/05/2017

Colourful beehives were much in evidence whenever we walked in the countryside, but we were warned to steer well clear because the bees are a far more fearsome race than our placid British bees. At this time of year their main food source is the invasive acacia, so there may well be resistance to their…

via Bees & Beasties — The Enduring Gardener

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Stepping Outside the Classroom…

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18/05/2017

Outdoor Classroom Day on 18 May is a day to step outside the classroom and climb the ladder of outdoor learning and play.

via Join in a global day to change the way children learn and play — Rethinking Childhood

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Great Gardens of Scotland…

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17/05/2017

En route to Glasgow – over the clouds, somewhere in the Lake DistrictThe Pineapple – an extraordinary architectural feat, on the way to EdinburghPitmuies – a captivating garden on the way to AberdeenEdzell Castle – a ruin with attitude, helped by the bright blue skiesCrarae – a Himalayan garden in the heart of Argyll and…

via Wednesday Walkabout – Great Gardens of Scotland — The Galloping Gardener

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Tree climbing…

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16/05/2017

Do you remember those first clamberings, the tentative propulsion upwards, the scrambled search for a purchase with feet or hands, a roughness of bark rubbing legs and arms as they grappled with the ascent? The liberation of leaving the ground behind and entering the leafy expanse above was an exhilirating paradigm shift. The world opened […]

via These Trees Are Meant for Climbing — PlayGroundology

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Community gardening handbook…

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15/05/2017

A lot of new gardening and plant books have landed on my mat this spring, and I need to up my book reviewing game! I like to do them justice, and spend some time reading them before I write a review, so that does create a bit of a backlog. Right at the time when…

via Book Review: The Community Gardening Handbook — The Unconventional Gardener

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