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 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 December 20, 2009
RHS Wisley the botanical gardens in Surrey is always a beautiful place to go, but during the Christmas season they’ve added a bit extra magic with “lumiere” in the gardens. Lumiere, I think, means lights designed by French people to be worthy in an artistic sense and funky. We had no idea that they’d have [...]
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