The Gardener's Eye: December 2013

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Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Box, Granite and Frost

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I am an optometrist by profession. I designed and maintained public gardens in my hometown, Peterborough, NH for nearly two decades. I also host garden tours. In September 2018, I will lead another 'Late Summer Gardens of Southern England Tour'. This blog is a chronicle of my gardening adventures.

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Blog - GARDENS, WEEDS & WORDS

The Gardens, Weeds & Words podcast, Series 3.5 Episode 2 - Autumn is settling in and, if we’re honest, we start to spend less time actively gardening. More time for the soil to grow what it really wants, more time ...
2 weeks ago
Pettifers Garden Blog

March 25th, 2012 Revisited - Gina started this blog 12 years ago to chronicle her thoughts on Pettifers. The eagle-eyed among you will notice that it’s been almost 2 years since our la...
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Life in the English Cotswolds

the heath - ‘We’re off to the heath!” Such excitement whenever my father made this announcement. It happened perhaps just three or four times a year and when it did...
5 weeks ago
The New Perennialist

Visionary Landscapes: A Photographer’s Journey with Claire Takacs - When one of the world’s leading photographers of hyper-beautiful gardens decides that beauty is no longer enough, it captures your attention. My next Tal...
6 months ago
The Anxious Gardener

Eastward Ho! - It’s because of elephants. I am incredibly excited about my trip but if it wasn’t for elephants, I wouldn’t be going. I really wouldn’t. It doesn’t seem so...
1 year ago
Site & Insight

Booongo slot ค่ายเกมส์สล็อตที่ได้รับความนิยมสูงสุด - โลกของเกมออนไลน์เป็นภูมิทัศน์ที่เปลี่ยนแปลงตลอดเวลา ผลักดันขอบเขตของความบันเทิงและนวัตกรรมอย่างต่อเนื่อง ชื่อหนึ่งที่สร้างกระแสในอุตสาหกรรมคือ Booongo ผู้...
1 year ago
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Snowdrops are Nature's way of fast-forwarding winter - Ever since he was a puppy, my dog Rufus has had a thing about snowdrops. Just as well, because he lives in snowdrop heaven. We have several snowdrop g...
1 year ago
The Galloping Gardener

On the road again .... And now in awesome Odisha, India - at Desia in the heart of the tribal region - The weekly market at Kotpad, which takes place on Tuesdays Odisha is billed as one of India's best-kept secrets, but in reality, it is one of the nation's...
2 years ago
Growing with plants

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2 years ago
Blogging from Blackpitts Garden...

Apparently Caravaggio was not brilliant at Lawn Bowls - In which I go to Dublin during a heatwave.
2 years ago
gardening on the edge

THE SECRET: THE QUESTIONS BEHIND THE QUESTIONS - Managers will usually ask you a prepared set of questions in an interview, but for each manager, there is also a set of questions behind the questions th...
3 years ago
Seattle Urban Landscape

Paeonia veitchii - *Paeonia veitchii* (Veitch's peony) is one of my favorite peonies. I love the flowers & the leaves. It's a species of herbaceous perennial peony. It ...
3 years ago
William & Edward

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3 years ago
The Gravetye Gardeners Journal

The King of Roses by Philip Hesketh, Dean of Rochester - As we continue our celebration of 150 years of William Robinson’s book The Wild Garden, we find out more about Samuel Reynolds Hole, whom William Robinson ...
3 years ago
Priona Tuinen

De Tuinen als schatkamer - Ben je nieuwsgierig wat we allemaal maken met de planten uit de Tuinen? Volg ons dan op Facebook of Insta - daar posten we regelmatig over nieuwe gerechte...
4 years ago
boite-de-peinture * Bruno Charenton

- F F F Wallpaper state of mind à la lettre L Helen's walk Pont Marie F Twist split valley I sunning F lefthand St Louis F torsion iris and fields jardi...
4 years ago
View from Federal Twist by James Golden

Review of ‘A Beautiful Obsession’ by Jimi Blake and Noel Kingsbury - I read so much about eco-friendly, low maintenance gardening these days, I yearn for garden writing with more depth, for writing about the more immersive k...
4 years ago
Noel's Garden Blog

This blog has moved ! - This is my old blog, which I will keep as an archive. I am now blogging entirely from my website: https://www.noelkingsbury.com/noelsgarden-blog See you...
4 years ago
The Gardens at Barnsley House

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5 years ago
A Tidewater Gardener

The Last Sunset of 2018 - 2018 has not been a good year. In fact, it has likely been one of the worst for me and my family. This was a year of great loss for us, permanent loss...
5 years ago
KJELD SLOT

`MED HUSET SOM HOVED OG HAVEN SOM KROP´ - Et billedforedrag på Vilvorde Tekniske Skole i Roskilde, Køgevej 131, 4000 Roskilde onsdag d. 14 marts kl. 19.00. *`Med huset som hoved og haven som krop´*...
6 years ago
Plinth et al.

“We are a landscape of all we have seen.” - “We are a landscape of all we have seen.” — Isamu Noguchi
6 years ago
John Brookes Raves & Rants

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7 years ago
SISSINGHURST

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7 years ago
Tales from the Garden

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7 years ago
ARDUOUS RUST

Garden Jobs for the weekend (or October depending how quickly you get it done :-) - Collect Seeds I started this a few weeks back but take the time to collect up any seeds you want to re sew next spring. Foxgloves, lady mantle, poppy's ...
8 years ago

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