Nigel Boldero aka 'Old School Gardener'
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My articles classified..
- 12 tips to save time in the garden (12)
- A musing: odd thoughts (21)
- A Select Vietnamese flora (3)
- A-Z of Garden Trees (23)
- A-Z of Perennials (26)
- Aussie Greens- gardens, parks and open spaces visited in trips to Australia (2)
- Blickling Hall- rebirth of the Walled Garden (88)
- Blogging (13)
- Climate change and gardening (68)
- Community Gardening (114)
- Dear Walter – letters/info from Old School Garden (81)
- Design (394)
- Design My Garden – Tips to improve your plot (12)
- Eat Me: guides to growing and using food plants (5)
- Feature plants (189)
- Floral Roundabouts (4)
- Four Seasons in One Day- series on climate change and gardening (5)
- Gardening and Gardeners: historical snapshots (42)
- Gardening equipment and tools (67)
- Gardening techniques (392)
- Gardening Therapy (3)
- GQT: your gardening queries answered (43)
- Great Gardens (180)
- Great Gardens: Scotland 2016 (6)
- Grow your own food (157)
- Growing Children- series on school gardening (7)
- Haveringland Churchyard (1)
- Health (15)
- Hebridean Hop- a tour of some Scottish isles (4)
- Heritage Gardens & gardening (285)
- Historic landscapes (129)
- John Evelyn's Monthly in the Garden (12)
- Local Food (21)
- Monthly Top ten gardening tips (12)
- Mrs. Murphy's Laws of Gardening (14)
- New Zealand 2019 (19)
- Norfolk in poetry- Jack Kett (13)
- Open Spaces (54)
- Over My Head- looking up at architectural detailing (8)
- Permaculture and sustainability (8)
- Pests and diseases (28)
- PicPosts- great photographs (810)
- Plantax- the stories behind plant names (21)
- Planting Patterns- wow factor pictures (41)
- Play (205)
- Playful Landscapes- examples (9)
- Portuguese Gardens (31)
- Power of 7- tips (24)
- Recycling projects (111)
- School and childrens' Gardening (82)
- Soils and soil improvement (62)
- Style Counsel: snippets on garden styles (13)
- The Essence of Gardening in 12 Objects (12)
- This and that (1,610)
- West Country Gardens (24)
- Wildlife and Nature (418)
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Recent Posts
- Fighting to Reduce Climate Change Anxiety
- Gardening 101 for Beekeepers
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- Home Composting Guide
- Slow down and embrace nature – how to create better cities when the pandemic is over
- Spring Cleanup Checklist for Yard and Garden
- #FungiFriday: a grave situation — Daniel Greenwood
- What did the Nettlefolds do for Christmas? — Winterbourne House and Garden
- Great estates: the changing role of trees in the municipal housing landscape — Municipal Dreams
- Collaborative approaches — The official blog for the North York Moors National Park
- Jekka’s Favourite 12 Herbs for Christmas — Jekka’s – Jekka’s Blogs “All About Herbs”
- A Chance Encounter — PlayGroundology
- Edinburgh’s 1919 Act Housing, Part II: ‘Healthy Houses for the People is the Best Public Health Insurance’ — Municipal Dreams
- The Science of Sustainability — Specifier Review
- Never Gets Old — PlayGroundology
- Say Hello to the 2020 Collections Trainees — Shine A Light
- Council Housing in Preston, Part II: ‘Changing Fashions in Planning’ — Municipal Dreams
- Preston’s Council Housing, Part I to 1939: ‘Compactness, Convenience and Taste’ — Municipal Dreams
- ‘Green Care’ – a positive push from Covid
- Climate projections show extreme UK’s weather will become even more extreme — Official blog of the Met Office news team
- Cottingham’s Council Housing, Part II from 1930: New Forms of Housing Provision — Municipal Dreams
- Decorative Arched Footbridge, Desert Wash, East Ruston, Norfolk — Susan Rushton
- Local Candidates Asked About Well-being of Children — PlayGroundology
- The Role of the Women’s Housing Sub-Committee: ‘Homes fit for Heroines’ — Municipal Dreams
- Taking advantage of good weather: Getting loads of stuff done — Vanha Talo Suomi
- The Susans Cope With Drought — gardeninacity
- What’s up? — NewEnglandGardenAndThread
- Are You Sitting Comfortably – 15 — greenbenchramblings
- Climate Change: The perfect fuel for wildfires? — Official blog of the Met Office news team
- ‘Till we have built Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land’: Women’s Influence on State Housing in the Era of World War 1 and After — Municipal Dreams
- Storm Alex, so why not Storm Aiden? — Official blog of the Met Office news team
- October in the Garden: Top 10 Tips
- Green Flag Award- the Judge’s Gardens Competition
- It’s gardener vs. gardener season — GardenRant
- Darwen’s Jubilee Tower — Susan Rushton
- Jekka’s 6 top steps to “Grow On” your herbs — Jekka’s – Jekka’s Blogs “All About Herbs”
- If Summer Could Go On Forever — leaf and twig
- Plant Spotlight: Salvia involucrata ‘Hadspen’ — Winterbourne House and Garden
- The Garden at the begining of Autumn — The Cynical Gardener
- Will Covid-19 change the future of building design? — Specifier Review
- Atlantic tropical storms forming at a record pace — Official blog of the Met Office news team
- The Sussex Weald: where all the mushrooms are — Daniel Greenwood
- Report on nature-based solutions for the climate emergency published — Specifier Review
- My Lockdown Re(dis)covery
- End of the Dog Days — Vanha Talo Suomi
- Transformational public service development plans approved in West Suffolk — Specifier Review
- How changing urban streetscapes reflect post-COVID 19 outdoor cultural trends — Specifier Review
- Council Housing in Greenock, Part II, 1918-1945: their ‘Ain Wee House’ — Municipal Dreams
- #FungiFriday: weeping conk at Ickworth Park — Daniel Greenwood
- Quinta de Ventozelo — Salt of Portugal
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Old School Garden 
Yes – absolutely brilliant design! Fits my space and style perfectly. Do you have a side on picture or do you have the link to where you got the design from please? It looks like the posts holding up each “shelf” is attached with a screw at an angle – is that right? And are the sides braced with a piece of timber from top back to front bottom. Great project for the school holidays, thanks! Creenagh
Great stuff Creenagh, take a look at the Facebook site ‘!001 Pallets’ which is where I got the picture from. I look forward to seeing your own project!
Hi Nigel, what an absolute genius of a design! Is this your own creation? Julien
Sorry, not my idea, but I agree with you- simple, effective and elegant 🙂