Friday, 29 April 2011
Blowing hot and cold.........
Monday, 18 April 2011
Flowers, fragrance and filming...........
Thursday, 14 April 2011
The Spark Ignites..............
Friday, 8 April 2011
Limbering up for Chelsea
Managed to find time to capture a few images for my first lecture in the My Garden School Course - Shrubs - the foundation of good planting. (visit http://my-garden-school.com/shrubs )In this spring weather those spring flowering shrubs are really excelling themselves: ribes, spiraea, magnolia even potentillas and lilacs are blooming already. I hope this does not mean we'll have an earlier gap in the season this year.
Meant to get the nuts and bolts of the two ponds, steam and exercise trail nailed today but it hasn't happened yet. That warm sunshine is just too distracting - will have to get down to boring construction details next week otherwise I really am cutting it fine.
Hopefully the garden centres will have a bumper weekend - certainly the nursery has been operating beyond maximum capacity this week - working well into the night, and sometimes into the early hours of morning. Garden Centres everywhere are welcoming a sales boost after the dark days of winter and everyone is determined to make hay while the sun shines.
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Things are Moving .......................
Just from a quick look at the plants today I picked up a few ideas for colour combinations. I really liked the Cordyline 'Sundowner' with Astelia 'Westland' - That pink and pewter theme could be combined with the darker Acer 'Shaina' and the silver leaves af the cardoon - spike, sculptural, soft yet bold - Maybe, just maybe I'm starting to feel good about Chelsea. Watch this space - but in the meantime check out My Garden School. This is an exciting new on-line learning project - take a look at my Love your Lawn course......... http://www.my-garden-school.com/course/love-your-lawn/