tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44903334371220604782024-03-05T06:45:16.335+00:00Friday Gardening GroupA weekly account of the activities of the Friday gardening group at the Garden House in BrightonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08401021770106745856noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490333437122060478.post-73756424336612780112014-07-21T22:25:00.001+01:002014-07-21T22:25:50.842+01:00Friday 18th July 2014Last Friday group of the year - we focused on making sure the garden was looking amazing for the charity event on Sunday. We also shared a lovely lunch and said some goodbyes to Friday group friends that will not be coming back to the group next year.<br />
The Friday group class of 2013/14 - we have shared a lot of fun and learnt quite a bit more about gardening along the way and just enjoyed spending time together every week in Bridge's beautiful garden.<br />
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A number of group members had been to Hampton Court Flower Show this week and this beautiful species pelargonium is just one of the new purchases. We did some more final planning for the Friday group charity event on 20th July and had a brief look at some fuchsias. Fuchsias are a genus of approximately 100 species of deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs and a few perennials. They come originally from Central and South America and New Zealand and have very distinctive pendulous flowers throughout summer and autumn. They can be used in containers or as summer bedding and some are hardy enough to be grown as hedges.<br />
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<li>Fuchsia 'Lottie Hobbie' is an unusual small bushy upright vigorous plant with dark green leaves and small single flowers. It prefers some shade.</li>
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<li>Fuchsia 'Lady Bacon' is a medium sized shrub with slim white, pink and purple flowers. It can survive outside although likes a sunny position and some protection from winds.</li>
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<li>Fuchsia 'Delta's Sarah' is a small deciduous bushy shrub it bears single flowers with white sepals and purple petals<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b>Activities in the garden this week (before the rain came down):</b><br />
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<li>Planting out newly bought fuchsias</li>
<li>Pruning the willow arch</li>
<li>Cloud pruning the myrtle</li>
<li>Planting out broad beans</li>
<li>Cutting back the ivy</li>
<li>Sorting out the large border and deadheading roses</li>
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<b>Friday group award winners:</b><br />
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Vicky and Sue received special awards of path building merit at the group this week. Many congratulations to you both!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08401021770106745856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490333437122060478.post-61846016703969858032014-07-06T19:42:00.000+01:002014-07-06T19:42:38.295+01:00Friday 4th July 2014<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Bridge was away and with Julia at the helm we had some discussion about gardens we had visited or other gardening recommendations. The Garden Gadabout had gone very well for group members that opened their gardens with lots of visitors and lots of very positive feedback.<br />
Sue T had been on a good planting course at Great Dixter which was very inspirational, Katy had visited <a href="http://www.parhaminsussex.co.uk/">Parham House</a> in Storrington and said the gardens are really worth a visit. Julia visited <a href="http://www.herstmonceux-castle.com/">Hurstmonceux</a> castle and gardens and again really recommended a visit. A bit further afield Hilary had visited <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wallington/visitor-information/">Wallington Hall</a>, a lovely NT property and gardens in Northumberland and closer to home the meadows and beds in Preston Park are looking rather spectacular at the moment.<br />
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<li>Geranium maderense, a giant herb robert that comes from Madeira. It is a robust perennial or biennial which grows to 1.5m with attractive leaves and large purplish pink flowers and can grow in either sun or shade.</li>
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<li>Geranium pyrenaicum 'Bill Wallis' is a sprawling perennial that grows to 30cm tall with open sprays of small delicate vivid purple flowers. It flowers from late spring to late autumn in full sun or partial shade.It self seeds and can provide effective ground cover or can also be used in pots.</li>
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<li>Sanguisorba officinalis or great burnet has maroon flowers in dense spikes in summer and early autumn -best in full sun or partial shade in well drained soil. A lovely plant for borders or prairie planting.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b>Activities in the garden this week:</b></li>
<li>Feeding and watering the pots</li>
<li>Clipping box hedges and taking box cuttings</li>
<li>Weeding and feeding the border under apple tree</li>
<li>Pulling out opium poppies and saving seed heads</li>
<li>Pruning Rosa Banksiae</li>
<li>Cutting back the willow in willow arch</li>
<li>Planting out rest of tomatoes in greenhouse and harvesting lettuces</li>
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Then back to the Garden House for coffee and further planning of the fundraising event on 20<sup>th</sup> July which will be in aid of Moulsecoomb Forest Garden. Afterwards we worked in the garden for an hour.<o:p></o:p><br />
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It is a great year for roses and there are 64 types of roses in the Garden House including R. 'Chevy Chase' a small compact climber with a good covering of light green foliage and small dark red clusters of flowers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosa 'Rambling Rector'</td></tr>
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Rosa 'Rambling Rector' is a rampant vigorous rambling rose that would cover a tree or pergola. It has small white scented flowers followed by red hips. Ramblers don't usually repeat flower and usually produce attractive hips.</div>
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This is a rambling rose that unusually will produce a second flush of flowers - it is fast growing with apricot flowers that fade to cream with a light musky scent. It is a good choice for covering an archway and is generally disease resistant.</div>
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Rosa 'James Galway' is a beautiful pink climber with double flowers with an old rose fragrance. The stems are virtually thornless; it flowers freely and repeat flowers and can grow up to 8'.</div>
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Rosa Glauca is a vigorous deciduous medium sized shrub with a simple deep pink flowers and good foliage and looks like a wild rose. It prefers full sun.<br />
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Rosa 'Charles de Mills' is a small upright shrub rose that grows up to 1.2m and has copious mid green foliage with very fragrant double crimson purple flowers.<br />
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Bridge recommends Peter Beales as a supplier of roses and the RHS Encyclopedia of Roses by Charles and Bridget Quest-Riton.<br />
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<b>Activities in the garden this week:</b><br />
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<li>Potting up chillies and feeding and labeling them</li>
<li>Weeding the veg plots and planting out chard and beetroot plants</li>
<li>Planting out 'Black-eyed Susan' climbing plants with blue flox, planting out gaura</li>
<li>Staking the ammi</li>
<li>Weeding and sorting out herbaceous border</li>
<li>Tidying up area around the pond</li>
<li>Sorting out plants in cold frames and general dead heading</li>
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The plant fair at the Garden House was a great success and we had some discussion about our new purchases and the fact that Vicky bought her first yellow plant a Knifofia. These plants are in the lily family and come from South Africa and don't have to be red. Good drainage is needed for these plants.<br />
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<b>Activities in the garden this week:</b><br />
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<li>Staking corn flowers and some of the ammi</li>
<li>Deadheading</li>
<li>Taking out opium poppies and planting dahlias, sunflowers, salvia, nasturtium, antirrhinum</li>
<li>Planing out runner beans</li>
<li>Planting a black stemmed hydrangea and fern in large pot in front garden</li>
<li>Planting more climbers</li>
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We had some discussion about hydrangeas - they can be shrubs or climbers and flower from late spring to late autumn. They thrive in moist soil in a cool or semi shaded part of the garden and they are easy to grow from softwood or hardwood cuttings.They come in a number of habits and forms from mophead, lacecap, paniculata, oak-leaved and climbing and usually flower on current season's growth.<br />
Hydrangea 'Annabelle' has profuse white flowers from July to Sept and grows to a height of 4-5ft<br />
Hydrangea paniculata 'Phantom' has conical flowerheads that are creamy white and flushed with green and pink and grows to 4-5ft<br />
Recommended book: Hydrangeas: A Gardener's Guide by Toni Lawson-Hall<br />
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We also looked at bronze fennel (Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum') which is a very useful plant for the border.<br />
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<li>Planting up pots and hanging baskets</li>
<li>Planting sempervivums in chicken feeders</li>
<li>Lots of weeding and getting the garden ready for the plant fair</li>
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The garden looked particularly beautiful for the plant fair on Saturday, after early rain the sun shone for the rest of the day and there was a profusion of wonderful plants to buy.</div>
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You just have time to consider doing the 'Chelsea chop' on your perennials. You can do this in a number of ways - either cut back the whole plant by about one third or only chop back one third of the plants leaving some to flower earlier. Doing this encourages bushier growth, can stop the plants from flopping and can also extend the flowering period. S<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">edum, rudbeckia, echinacea, helenium, nepeta, phlox, asters will all respond well to this technique.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can also cut back geraniums after they have flowered and you may get a second flush of flowers but you do need to water and feed them well.</span></span><br />
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<li>Centranthus ruber 'Albus' - which is the white form of red valerian. It has sprays of small white flowers in late spring and summer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li>Valeriana officinalis - or common valerian - this is a tall and airy plant with pinkish- white small flowers with a nice vanilla scent<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li>Dinathus deltoides or Maiden pink is an evergreen perennial and has a mat of green foliage with clusters of cerise or white flowers. It is happy in chalk soil and can be grown in gravel gardens or with other alpines<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li>Geranium 'Southease celestial' a lovely clump forming geranium with lavender blue flowers</li>
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<li>Stipa gigantea -or Golden Oats is a striking evergreen grass, it has oat like flower heads in summer and can grow up to 6 feet. It likes well drained light soil and full sun</li>
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<b>Activities in the garden this week</b></div>
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<li>pruning and cutting back the clematis armandii</li>
<li>pruning the pittosporum</li>
<li>planting up the cosmos</li>
<li>planting up the big containers</li>
<li>potting up the tomatoes</li>
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week and to a talk given by Fergus Garret and Dan Pearson at the Royal
Geographic Society which was arranged via <i>Gardens
Illustrated</i> magazine – highly recommended. Dan Pearson talked about <a href="http://www.gardenbridgetrust.org/">The Garden Bridge</a>, an exciting new project which will span the Thames at
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<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">Libertia ixoides
‘Taupe Sunset’</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> – a perennial with thin spiky leaves with unusual
variegation: good for containers as fairly drought tolerant. At the Garden
House we have </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Libertia ‘Goldfinger’</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">
in clay urns. It is currently flowering - sparse small white flowers - but is
essentially a foliage plant.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">Tellima grandiflora</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">
– hardy perennial, tiny creamy lemon flowers on long spikes, fresh green heuchera-like
leaves. > 80 cm. Likes semi-shade; good for shady borders and wild gardens.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">Euphorbia oblongata </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">–
good acid greens/yellows for flower arranging. It is a short lived perrenial often grown as an annual. It grows >
1m and has loose flower heads. Sun. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Euphorbias were popular at Chelsea e.g. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">Euphorbia palustris</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> > 1 m., </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">E.
Cornigera</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">>75 cm leaves with
pale midrib, and the smaller feathery-leaved. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">E. Cyparrissus ‘Orange Man’</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">All euphorbias have milky sap which can irritate the skin on
contact, especially in sunshine.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">Rosa ‘Warm Welcome’</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">
– electric orange small blooms. Small climber. Scented.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">R. James Galway’</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">
– Pale pink flowers with dark centre, shaped like a centifolia rose. Climber.
Scented.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">R. ‘Dublin Bay’</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> –
velvety dark red climber with hybrid tea shaped blooms, disappointingly no
scent.</span></li>
<li><b style="font-family: inherit;">R. ‘Cecile Brunner’</b><span style="font-family: inherit;">
– small, abundant pink flowers, perfect buttonhole rose. Scented. Climber.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rushfield Nurseries near Henfield are good for roses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peter Beales, Norfolk- based specialist rose nursery,
on-line and always exhibiting at the big flower shows. Also David Austen Roses,
their main rivals!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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runner beans with pretty flowers</span></li>
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planting and clipping box in containers</span></li>
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Thought you might enjoy this pic of Sue and Mandy on a shopping trip (only 2 of the tiny blue carrier bags were mine!). We had a fab visit to the open garden at Newtimber and managed to do just a little bit of plant swapping and shopping.</div>
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We started off talking about auriculas following a specialist talk at the Garden House last week that a few group members attended. Auriculas are perennials that are prized for their delicate colourful flowers and can be grown in pots or in alpine borders. They don't like getting wet and need some shade.<br />
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<li>Planting up the large pots with Gaura, Margarites, Nasturtiums and Pelargoniums</li>
<li>Removing tulip bulbs from rest of the other pots and planting up </li>
<li>Weeding and tidying up Tulip tree bed</li>
<li>Potting on chillis that have been grown from seed</li>
<li>Seed sowing of biennials and pricking out</li>
<li>Planting more ammi and cornflowers </li>
<li>Pruning the hawthorn and clearing the bed underneath ready for cosmos</li>
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Vicky got a breather from path work this week as more pebbles are being ordered for the last bit of path work. Check out website of <a href="http://maggyhowarth.co.uk/ck">Maggy Howarth</a> for images of amazing mosaic pebble paths.<br />
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Most of the tulips have gone over now and we are emptying pots in the Garden House - bulbs can be stored for planting again in late autumn. They can be kept in a shed but need to be in a container that allows for the air to get to them so they don't rot off. They can also be planted straight into the ground if they are to be kept for next year. It is not too late to sow cosmos directly into modules and cosmos are usually resistant to slugs and snails and keep flowering through into early autumn.<br />
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We had some discussion about tender perennials - these are plants that have a life cycle of more than 2 years but would get damaged by frost if left out in the garden throughout the whole year. We looked at some examples in the plant identification:<br />
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<li>Nemesia 'Wisley Vanilla' - flowers all summer and smells of vanilla. It is happy in sun or part shade and is usually treated as an annual- remove faded flower stem to encourage re-blooming.</li>
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<li>Verbena 'Sissinghurst' - has clusters of pink flowers - it flowers from May until the frosts if dead headed regularly. It likes full sun.</li>
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<li>Felicia Amelloides or blue marguerite is a South African tender perennial- it likes well drained soil and full sun</li>
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<li>Nicotiana 'Marshmallow' - an unusual variety of Nicotiana ( tobacco plant) with faded red, pink and white flowers which will be planted in pots in the Garden House. Nicotiana seeds need to be sow in March & April and the plants will flower through July, August and September.</li>
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<li>pot up and organise the display of pelargoniums</li>
<li>potting up new hydrangea plants for display outside the garden room</li>
<li>planting out broad beans, peas and chard</li>
<li>clearing a bed in the greenhouse for some special lettuce plants</li>
<li>pricking out cosmos seedlings</li>
<li>emptying pots of tulip and narcissus ready for planting up</li>
<li>planting up viola pots</li>
<li>more path work for Vicky</li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today most of the group went to work on a garden in Preston Drove apart from Vicky and Julia. Vicky continued with the path work with some help from John and Julia potted on cosmos and tomatoes. </span></div>
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ID from Paul's plants for sale, all in flower now, mid spring:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lychnis flos-cuculi - a beautiful white form of Ragged Robin. It likes damp soil
(which most of us don't have) but the pink Ragged Robin is a native of SE so
must be ok on chalk. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">clump-forming
herbaceous perennial with an upright, branching habit. Can be grown from
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edible, a selection from Graham Gough at Marchants Hardy Plants, </span></li>
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also talked about the value of biennials - e.g. foxgloves, wallflowers, honesty
(lunaria), sweet rocket (hesperis matronalis) - as they flower in the gap
between the spring bulbs and spring flowers like primroses, and the early summer
flowering plants like roses and alliums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There was also a discussion about Leather Jackets - larvae of crane flies - which are often a pest of
lawns but can turn up elsewhere, and may come in bought-in turf. Look like fat
greyish caterpillars. Sue reports they have been eating her vegetable
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With the bluebells in full flower at the Garden House we had a discussion about wild flowers and what constitutes a weed. Bluebells look stunning in woodlands but often pop up all over the flowerbeds and many of the bluebells we now see are the Spanish bluebells or native Spanish hybrids that have larger leaves and have flowers all around the stem rather than just on one side. The Spanish hybrid is more robust than the native and if not monitored could eventually change the genetics of the native variety. The bluebell is part of the asparagus family and forms extensive carpets of flowers especially under the canopy of trees.<div>
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Weeds/wild flowers are also an important indicator of soil type e.g. ox-eye daisies grow very well in chalk soil.</div>
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<b>Recommended books on wild flowers:</b></div>
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Sarah Raven - Wild Flowers</div>
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Keble Martin- Concise British Flora in Colour</div>
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John Akeroyd - Encyclopaedia of Wild Flowers</div>
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Valerie Ellis - Need to Weed</div>
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<b>Activities in the garden this week:</b></div>
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<li><span style="text-align: center;">planting out corn cockles</span></li>
<li>dead heading narcissi </li>
<li>planting gladioli murielae bulbs and ammi plants in sunken garden</li>
<li>sowing sunflower and pumpkin seeds</li>
<li>preparing the bed outside greenhouse for dahlias</li>
<li>planting peas in containers</li>
<li>planting up potato bag</li>
<li>continuing path work</li>
<li>eating cake when rain stopped play</li>
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Here are some photos to show how much Ruth's garden has progressed since the Friday group worked on her plot in January.</div>
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<li>general weeding and tidying up the beds</li>
<li>planting the red mustard that had been grown in a drainpipe into the veg bed</li>
<li>sowing radishes, rocket and more mustard into the veg beds</li>
<li>sowing more crimson broad beans amongst the alliums</li>
<li>sowing more annuals including a climber - Thunbergia alata (a white black-eyed Susan), cosmos sonata (a more compact cosmos which will be good for pots)and nasturtiums</li>
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We talked about division and taking basal cuttings- dividing herbaceous perennials serves to rejuvenate the plant and also makes more plants. Dividing plants is very straightforward and new plants are made instantly and should grow and flower in the same year if divided in spring or the following year if divided in autumn. You have to wait until there is a reasonable clump - so don't attempt to divide new plants too soon. Plants can be divided every 3-5 years. Basal cuttings can be taken from plants like achillea, geraniums or phlox although not every plant is suitable as some won't cope with being pulled apart. Sever a shoot near the base, strip the lower leaves and pinch out the growing tip to help root growth- put in compost in pots and pot on when there is good root growth.</div>
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<li>Erythronium or dog's tooth violet. They flower in spring and are summer dormant and need partial shade as they are edge of woodland plants.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b>Activities in the garden this week:</b></li>
<li>Time to bring out the pelagoniums from the greenhouse </li>
<li>Building a bug hotel</li>
<li>Putting herbs in strawberry pots for top garden</li>
<li>Planting out sweet peas, ajuga, verbena bonariensis, erythronium, brunnera etc</li>
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<li>Seed sowing including -tom thumb peas, robin hood dwarf broad beans, red kale, cosmos click cranberries and coreopsis</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08401021770106745856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490333437122060478.post-55449741295641339072014-03-29T18:31:00.002+00:002014-03-29T18:31:28.224+00:00Friday 28th March 2014<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We talked about seed sowing today as now is the time to start sowing half hardy annuals.Hardy annuals like ammi, nigella, calendula, larkspur can be sown in Sept/Oct for the next year but can also be sown now in March/April. They will flower slightly later than autumn sown annuals. It is best to sow annuals in modular trays so you don't damage their roots when you are potting them on. You can use multi purpose compost just ensuring you take out any big bits of bark etc - use your fingers to make indents in the modules and put one or two seeds in each cell and cover with a little compost. Pot on into individual pots when there is sufficient growth as they will quickly run out of nutrients.Water with a can with a very fine rose or water from beneath - it can be helpful to use capillary matting in the tray to keep them damp.<br />
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Half hardy annuals like cosmos, zinnias, nicotianas are frost tender and should only be planted out after mid May. They need a temperature of at least 10 degrees C to germinate so use a heated propagator or sow them inside but check them daily and keep them watered. It takes at least 6 weeks from sowing to being able to put them out and some grow more slowly then others, e.g.cosmos seeds grow very rapidly whilst nicotianas take a long time to germinate. Sow half hardy seeds in a seed tray - some seeds are very tiny so you can mix them with silver sand and sow very finely and cover with vermiculite before putting under glass or cling film. Prick out into small pots (F7s) using a dibber and holding the seedling by a leaf.<br />
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<b>Book recommendations:</b><br />
Annuals & Biennials by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix<br />
The Great Vegetable plot by Sarah Raven<br />
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<b>Activities in the garden this week:</b><br />
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<li>moving gooseberries and making raised vegetable bed</li>
<li>planting out peas from guttering and sowing mix of carrot and onion seeds </li>
<li>tidying, weeding and planting out including planting broad beans among the alliums</li>
<li>finishing herb beds</li>
<li>more seed sowing of salad crops in gutters</li>
<li>continued work on the path</li>
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We had some discussion about veg growing before venturing out into the garden. One suggestion for protecting seeds until they are established is to cover the seed drill with a piece of guttering after sowing - this can help protect the seeds from cats, mice, birds etc. It is often difficult to grow carrots and parsnips on chalky soils so it is important to ensure the ground has been well raked over to a fine tilth before sowing , or grow shorter stumpier varieties of carrots/ parsnips. Another suggestion is to make a hole in the soil with a dibber and fill the hole with good quality compost and sow the seed into that. Suggested companion planting for carrots are coriander or onions as the strong smell of these plants helps protect against carrot fly. Carrot seeds could be mixed together with onion seeds and both sown together ( Ms Raven suggests using North Holland Blood Red onion seeds for this). Another suggestion from her is to plant broad beans in the valleys between the earthed up potatoes. Now is a good time to start beetroot off in modules and then transplant once the soil is warm enough and the plants are established.Calcified seaweed is good to add to vegetable beds and do consider crop rotation especially in allotments as this can avoid the build up off disease and improve yield.<br />
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<li>Chionadoxa - which means Glory of the snow in Greek <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14.77199935913086px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They are easy to grow in well drained soil in grass or under shrubs. They also make a small focal point around the base of a tree and flower in Feb/March</span></span></li>
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<li>Anenome blanda - which is a delicate blue anenome and can thrive in partial shade to full sun</li>
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<li>Creating beds for veg, erecting a runner bean frame and planting carrots and beetroot</li>
<li>Tidying the yellow bed by the shed</li>
<li>Continuing the work on the path</li>
<li>Working underneath the arches to sort and clear</li>
<li>Working on the herb bed to cut back and plant</li>
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Julia read from Rosemary Verey's gardening diary about jobs to do in the garden in March. So many things to be getting on with now that spring seems to have arrived. The Garden House garden will be open on April 13th for the National Garden Scheme so lots of work to do in readiness for that.<br />
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We had a quick plant identification:<br />
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<li>Saxifrage - great as an edging plant or to grow in an alpine collection. They need a well drained spot.</li>
<li>Narcissus 'Minnow' - a dwarf narcissi with lovely scent and has a number of flowers on each stem</li>
<li>Leucojum vernum - spring snowflake, related to snowdrops and can be used in a rock garden, added to a moist border or naturalised in grass</li>
<li>Primula veris - cowslip - a semi evergreen perennial favours a sheltered position in sun or semi shade. Good for edge of a woodland area.</li>
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Activities in the garden this week:</b><br />
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<li><span style="text-align: center;">Pruning and feeding hybrid tea roses </span></li>
<li>Planting aconitums and knifofia </li>
<li>moving the cold frames to outside the greenhouse</li>
<li>establishing a fernery in top garden</li>
<li>sowing peas and herbs/ salad in guttering in greenhouse</li>
<li>potting on rosemary cuttings</li>
<li>continuing work on the path</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia and Karin planting mint collection in the tanks</td></tr>
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An unexpectedly dry and warm Friday morning so we spent as much time as possible getting on with jobs in the garden.</div>
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We did have some discussion about feeding plants as we had some lovely compost delivered to the garden. There has been so much rain recently that it is good to try and enrich the soil and provide more nutrients to the soil to help the plants with their spring growth.<br />
There are three main plant foods - nitrogen, phosphorus and potash and any fertilizer will primarily provide these in various proportions. Bridge suggests keeping it simple - it is good to focus on adding manure and compost to the soil to bulk it up,enable the soil to hold moisture as well as adding essential nutrients.<br />
Nitrogen is the most essential plant nutrient and is responsible for green growth and is created almost entirely by decaying organic matter and is provided by adding compost or manure.<br />
Phosphorus supplies phosphates to the plants which they need to develop strong roots and to promote germination.<br />
Potassium in the form of potash is essential for all plants but particularly for fruiting crops. Potash is released from compost and wood ash, comfrey and seaweed are good sources of potassium.<br />
Seaweed can be bought as a liquid feed and is good for feeding plants in pots. Chicken pellets provide essential nutrients and should be added to the soil when planting.<br />
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<b>Activities in the garden this week:</b><br />
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<li>setting mosaic tile in the lawn</li>
<li>pruning the cox's apple tree in the corner of the garden behind the shed</li>
<li>planting a new mint collection in the tanks </li>
<li>feeding auriculas with liquid seaweed</li>
<li>potting on hardy annuals and feeding them</li>
<li>working in top garden - adding compost and planting</li>
<li>making obelisk for broad beans to grow up</li>
<li>continuing the path work by compost bins</li>
<li>pruning the honeysuckles</li>
<li>hoeing the borders</li>
<li>painting the bench</li>
<li>planting hellebores and pulmonarias</li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Garden was founded in 1673 by the Society of Apothecaries of London so
their apprentices could learn to grow medicinal plants and study their uses.The
4 acre site next to the Thames was ideal,offering easy access to the river at a
time when river travel was far easier and quicker than travel by road.This
enabled the Apothecaries to go on their celebrated 'herborising' expeditions to
collect plants.The site also offered free draining soil and a southerly aspect
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The future of the garden was secured in 1712 when Dr Hans Sloane took over
the freehold of the garden. He was sympathetic to the Apothecaries(he had studied
in the garden in his youth),who were struggling with its upkeep.He granted them
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maintained as a physic garden.Today the garden is still dedicated to promoting
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Despite the appalling weather ,the garden was stunning with beautiful pots full of cheering spring bulbs and a marquee of common and rare snowdrops for sale..ranging in price from £3.50 to £60! Peter's mini tour was informative and gave us lots of insight into the garden's history and development.The Daphne and sweet box were beautiful-their scent filling the (very damp!) air.</div>
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snowdrop trail and beds specialising in dyeing plants and medicinal plants
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<li>Helleborus orientalis, hellebores have pretty nodding cup shaped flowers. They are excellent in woodland or in shaded areas and are good for under planting. They can be planted in raised beds so that the flowers can be seen more clearly. They grow well in chalk. They require little care apart from cutting back old leaves, they do self seed and can be divided when the plants are mature.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li>Salix acutifolia 'Blue Streak' <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;">i</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.1200008392334px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">s a large deciduous shrub with a bluish - white bloom on the stems and narrow, dark green leaves. Slender silvery catkins to 5cm in length. It can grow to 5m and enjoys damp or wet soils in full sun or dappled shade. It is often pollarded and can be propagated by hard wood cuttings in winter.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: center;">
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<li>Arum italicum 'Marmoratum' - a tuberous perennial with arrow shaped mid green veined leaves, long lasting from winter to late spring. It has spikes of red or orange berries and is best in semi shade. The leaves are often used in flower arranging.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li>putting slates in the alpine sinks to divide up the planting areas</li>
<li>gritting up the pots containing the witch hazels</li>
<li>sorting out area behind the shed where all the stakes and poles are kept</li>
<li>starting work on building the structure for a stick house using hazel poles in the top garden</li>
<li>apple tree pruning</li>
<li>clearing beds and planting hellebores and pulmonaria</li>
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Winter time is also good for catching up on some garden book reading and planning ahead.<br />
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We looked at a range of winter twigs:<div>
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<li>Corylus avellana 'Contorta', contorted hazel or Harry Lauder's walking stick is slow growing and prefers sunny or semi shaded sites.</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.996000289916992px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hazel (Corylus avellana ) is a deciduous tree growing to around 10m but they are often coppiced. They flower from January to April. Hazel is monoecious: both male and female flowers are found on the same tree. Male flowers appear before the leaves and are long (2–8cm) pendulous catkins, yellow, hanging in clusters. Female flowers are small and bud-like with red styles 5mm. Hazel poles are good for fencing.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 15.996000289916992px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) can be identified by opposite black buds. Ash is dioecious, meaning that male and female flowers typically grow on different trees. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;">Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) is a small </span></span><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;">deciduous</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;"> tree native to UK and has sloe fruits. It flowers before the Hawthorn as it flowers on bare wood.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;">Hawthorn (Crataegus) gets leaves first and then flowers (may blossom) - good for hedging and for wildlife.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;">Cherry (Prunus avium), prunus is a huge genus of trees and shrubs that include plums, nectarines, peaches, apricots, almonds and can be </span></span><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;">deciduous</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;"> or evergreen. They often have lovely bark.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;">Larch (Larix) - is a deciduous conifer - it is very unusual to have deciduous conifers. </span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;"><b>starting a chilli plant trial-3 different seeds to be sown in pots and put into the propagator</b></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;"><b>sorting out the auriculas and gritting the pots</b></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;"><b>weeding beds and cutting back dead growth</b></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;"><b>pruning the blueberry and the pear tree</b></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 15.996000289916992px;"><b>potting up succulents and cacti in strawberry planters</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The weather was unexpectedly dry so our morning of reading gardening books and magazines had to be postponed. We had some discussion about taking cuttings and good ground cover plants. Generally cuttings should be taken just beneath the leaf node. There are some plants like clematis or honeysuckle where internodal cuttings can be taken. </span><br />
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<li>Anthemis punctata 'subsp cupaniana' ( Sicilian chamomile) - this is an evergreen perennial with silver green foliage. It is covered in long lasting white daisy flowers. It forms a loose mat and is good for growing in borders over slopes or in gravel gardens<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li>Lamium maculatum 'White Nancy' -<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">A short perennial that thrives in shade and makes good </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">ground cover</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">. The leaves are silvery-whitish, so they stand out as do the pure white summer flowers. If it spreads too far, it is easily restrained by slicing back with a spade. Best grown in moist but well drained soil.</span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<li>Lewisia cotyledon - a rosette forming evergreen perennial with fleshy leaves and salmon coloured flowers. It needs to be grown in well drained acidic soil - good for alpine beds or in crevices of a wall or in a pot. It is important not to let the rosettes get too wet.</li>
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<b>Activities in the garden this week:</b><br />
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<li>seed sorting ready for Seedy Sunday</li>
<li>digging up,dividing and putting back some of the asters</li>
<li>pricking out the ammi seedlings</li>
<li>pruning the Judas tree in front garden</li>
<li>cutting the strawberry runners and potting up the new plants</li>
<li>pruning the blueberries in pots</li>
<li>cutting back the old leaves of the hellebores and feeding with chicken pellets</li>
<li>weeding and sorting out the plants by the pond</li>
<li>planting a new bare root climbing rose for Meg</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08401021770106745856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490333437122060478.post-36789943856087861482014-01-19T15:16:00.001+00:002014-01-19T15:16:58.137+00:00Friday 17th January 2014The Friday group decamped this week to work on Ruth's lovely garden in Woodingdean.<br />
The group got stuck in to a number of gardening tasks to assist Ruth with the development of her garden - it certainly helps to have so many people working together!<br />
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Gardening activities included:<br />
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<li>Digging over part of the top garden to create vegetable beds</li>
<li>Constructing frames for raised beds</li>
<li>Constructing compost bins</li>
<li>Pruning the apple tree</li>
<li>Planting another apple tree</li>
<li>Late planting of tulip bulbs</li>
<li>Sowing sweet pea seeds, nigella seeds and broad beans</li>
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The photos tell the story:<br />
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