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The Origins of Gardening
Watering Watering is another routine job that needs to be done regularly. Choosing drought-tolerant plants is sensible, but even they need regular thorough watering when first planted until they are established. Mulching can help cut down on watering. Apply a mulch when the soil is already moist and it will help keep moisture in. If Read More… »
Posted February 1, 2012 at 10:06 pm no comments
Plants For The Water Garden
Take your time when starting to construct a rill — if you skimp on the laying-out stage you could end up with a meandering water course or one that is off-centre. Use fine line attached to pegs to mark out the course before construction. See blueprint 5, page 96. Ground movement and icy conditions impose Read More… »
Posted January 20, 2012 at 10:52 pm no comments
Designing Water Garden
It is to Protestant Holland and England that we must eventually turn for pure landscape painting. Gradually water, mountains and forests became acceptable motifs in their own right, independent of historical or religious connotations. I have always loved the lively winter scenes by Pieter Breughel the Elder (1525-1569) and Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) where peasants revel Read More… »
Posted January 19, 2012 at 11:27 pm no comments
The Miscellaneius Ramblers and Scramblers
Sussex, from Poulsen, is very colorful, with rather ragged, semi- double flowers of bright apricot- orange, changing to bright pinkish buff in maturity. These are borne in sizeable clusters on a relaxed plant 60cm (2ft) tall and 90cm (3ft) wide. Its foliage is dark green and shiny. This is a bright and cheerful rose, which Read More… »
Posted January 19, 2012 at 10:07 pm no comments
Growing Modern Shrub Roses
Most Tea roses are shrubs but, because of their R. gigantea ancestry, some have produced climbing sports from time to time. These old climbing Teas have close affinity to the Noisettes, and I will deal with these two groups of roses later in the book (see pp.152—l57). In all, about 75 varieties of Tea roses Read More… »
Posted January 18, 2012 at 1:24 am no comments
Introduction To Old Roses
‘Flora McIvor’ was also introduced in 1894. Its flowers are single and white in color with pink edges to their petals. Of all the Sweet Briars I am most fond of this one. In stature it is slightly shorter than the previous two and I can detect a slightly stronger apple scent from its foliage Read More… »
Posted January 17, 2012 at 11:19 pm no comments
The Rose Garden
In Islamic Spain of the same period, roses were grown more imaginatively: at the Alcazar, there are still fragments of `gloriettas’ left: arbors of cypress, twined with roses and jasmine, and used for dining. In Northern India, Shah Jahan built the island garden of the Four Plane Trees, square, of half an acre (about 2,000 Read More… »
Posted January 3, 2012 at 1:32 am no comments
The Topiary Garden
Topiary is an ancient garden art, whereby plants are clipped to form architectural shapes and their ability to bear flowers and fruit is suppressed. It was immensely popular in the gardens of ancient Rome, and has continued so almost ever since. Pliny the Younger (62-110AD) described his Tuscan garden, parts of it filled with topiary Read More… »
Posted January 2, 2012 at 11:52 pm no comments
Plants For Topiaries And Hedges
MEADOW PERENNIALS Though ladies’ smock and cowslips will be in flower with the last of the bulbs, most meadow perennials flower in summer. All are best planted IL discrete drifts, with initial plants at around 1m (310 spacings, with a few more distant ‘outliers’. Plant the smaller ones close to mown paths, allowing larger plants Read More… »
Posted January 2, 2012 at 10:27 pm no comments
The Wildflower Garden
Jasminum JASMINE, ZAMBAC Several species, including Jasminum officinalis, J. sambac (the Arabian jasmine) and J. grandiflorum, have made gardeners swoon for many centuries. The wonderful, but not entirely hardy, white Chinese J. officinalis was grown in Persian gardens by the third century, when the Parthian rulers had extensive contacts with China. The plant was so Read More… »
Posted January 2, 2012 at 4:34 am no comments