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Posted by IngridK on August 22, 2010
As a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, I receive a monthly magazine called The Garden. It’s full of horticultural wisdom and a fantastic letters page. A couple of years ago, there was a strongly worded letter condemning the ‘free for all’ that botanical gardens have become. Instead of places for quiet contemplation and the [...]
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Posted by IngridK on August 2, 2010
We’re regular visitors to Richmond Park, but until yesterday we’d never visited Bushy Park – the other walled royal park, this one a little further to the south and west and across the street from Hampton Court, which must have been very convenient for Henry VIII when he used it as a hunting ground. It’s [...]
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Posted by IngridK on July 25, 2010
It’s “Mad about machines” week at the RHS Wisley botanical gardens. We took the boy down today to see a vintage tractor parade, ride in a trailer pulled by a tractor and we queued for half an hour just so he could sit in the cab of a John Deere. I like tractors as much [...]
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Posted by IngridK on February 27, 2010
via modabotanicadesign.blogspot.com My cousin won Best in Show! Way to go Armas! MODA botanica, a floral design company in which he is a founding partner, just won Best in Show at the Philadelphia International Flower Show. Which is all the better, because they got some dubious press based on the unfinished installation at the show. [...]
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Posted by IngridK on October 9, 2009
Just as Eve knew, forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest. The apple trees at RHS Wisley don’t provide the knowledge of good and evil, but for many their fruits are absolutely irresistable. We often go to Wisley to enjoy the beautiful gardens, including the extensive apple orchards. Beautiful during Spring, in Autumn the boughs heavy laden [...]
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Posted by IngridK on August 25, 2009
As I was developing my gardening chops back in Tennesse, I began to see England as my horticultural mecca. Oh, the cottage gardens, the RHS shows, the gardens at the grand and stately homes of the National Trust. My co-workers and I at a garden center in Knoxville mused over the gentle mild climate and [...]
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