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PicPost: Great Garden @ The Eden Project

‘The Eden Project does much more than offer a memorable day out in Cornwall. Eden is also a charity and social enterprise.

As well as creating stunning gardens and laying on fantastic arts and music events, much of our energy goes into:

  • running transformational social and environmental projects on our doorstep and around the world

  • creating unforgettable learning experiences for students

  • doing valuable research into plants and conservation

  • making sure we run our operations in the greenest possible way…’

Source: Eden project website

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Tamara Jare's avatarMy Botanical Garden

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Dieffenbachia was the plant growing to in-believable size in the window of a restaurant in the middle of the town .Bus had a stop just in front of that window and I remember my childhood fascination seeing this plant each time again on my bus ride.I believed it had to be very difficult to grow such a big , old plant , filling the whole window with white green leaves each turning toward light from the street. Usually there were no lights turned on in the restaurant, the darkness of unknown inside was shadowing the vivid patterns of the only evident thing to be alive behind that window.Many years later I had a dinner in the same restaurant and could not believe the plant was still there, strong and green as from yesterday, but from this side of the window almost obvious and earthly, far less mysterious as it looked from my bus view.Yet it…

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PicPost: Efficient Watering

From: Vegetable Growing

deltagardener's avatarThat Bloomin' Garden

How to make a miniature garden

Have you ever made a miniature garden?  They are fun to create whether you use a kit or make one from materials you find yourself. Last year I met Janit Calvo of Two Green Thumbs at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in Seattle. I purchased one her kits to easily make another miniature garden. In the past I had sought out recycled items or thrift shop finds to create my miniature gardens. This time I wanted to try out a pre-made patio to see if I liked it.

How to make a miniature garden

To get started I bought a 12″ shallow clay pot. I liked that it was shallow as it allowed everything to look in scale. I filled it with potting soil as I had to add the plants first.

How to make a miniature garden

The first plant I added was a small tree called Abies balsamea nana or Dwarf Balsam Fir. It’s so cute at this size and…

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Picpost: Great Garden @ Alnwick Castle

‘The Alnwick Garden is being created by Jacques and Peter Wirtz, celebrated international garden designers from Belgium.

In design terms it is fair to say that The Alnwick Garden pushes the boundaries, and this is due in no small part to the Duchess of Northumberland herself, who has always believed that almost anything is possible if you get the right people involved. Her original concept was to produce a garden design framework and then to bring in the specialists, the experts, the best in their field, to ensure that each individual garden and concept was cutting edge in terms of both design and technology.

The Garden is a place where the imagination can run wild and the element of surprise is everything. This is created not just by the imaginative design of The Garden as a whole, but the attention to detail which is apparent in every aspect of it and of the many features it contains.Water is the lifeblood of this garden….’

Source: Anwick Garden website

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