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Country & Rural Garden News (13)Newspapers (6)Other Gardening News (A-J) (29)Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)'You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think' - Dorothy Parker 26 Oct 09 Hot plot or not? Number 8 Whatever you make of the garden, this house is one to go a little green at the gills over: lovely location right right near the park and the river, big Victorian pad, bet it's lovely inside. Does the front garden do it justice though? Just add your thoughts below: please start your comment with a "hot" or a "not" so I can tally the votes... 15 Oct 09 Anna Pavord on her new book, Bulb I promised a blogpost on Anna Pavord's talk at the Garden Museum on October 1 and hey, presto, 14 days later, here it is! Anna was talking about her new book, Bulb, which took her four years to write, and you can see why - it's an erudite, beautiful piece of work that deserves to be pored over on many a cold winter's evening to come... 12 Oct 09 Hot plot or not? Number 7 The first brave soul to volunteer a picture of their garden for your appraisal is Reg Wickings of Sydenham, South London. He writes: I have a small garden, divided into two areas. I am interested in the Mediterranean and Japanese style of gardening and the gardens reflect these interests... 7 Oct 09 Hot p(l)ot or not? Number 6 Ok, this one's a pot rather than a plot, but hey, I make the rules, right? I spotted this container at Garden Organic at Ryton, near Coventry at the weekend. It's certainly got volume, but what do you make of the planting mix? I didn't manage to catch much of the pot itself, but as I recall it was a fairly plain terracotta or stone job... 4 Oct 09 Review: the Worm Cafe When the people at Wiggly Wigglers offered to send me a new model of wormery to try out, I couldn't resist giving it a try: I've become a bit of a wormery enthusiast - it's an excellent way to deal with kitchen waste, and my daughter loves looking at the worms... 30 Sep 09 Fussy fittonias: or, who to blame when your new houseplant dies Fittonia verschaffeltii ver. argyroneura "Compacta". Photograph: TANAKA Juuyoh (????)/Flickr/Some ri...... 29 Sep 09 Hot plot or not? Number 5 Sheesh, you guys are an ornery lot. The outcome for the begonia-ridden front garden seen in HPON number four was six "hots" to 9 "nots". So far none of the plots has been given a collective thumbs up by Horticultural readers... 23 Sep 09 Inspired to garden: The Morville Hours and a visit to Kathy Brown's garden I am currently reading - and adoring - The Morville Hours by Katherine Swift. It's a book about the creation of a garden in Shropshire, but so much more than that: astronomy, agriculture, history, geology and countless other areas of knowledge feed into Swift's description of turning a bare field into a series of gardens inspired by former residents of Morville... 21 Sep 09 Hot Plot or Not? Number 4 I saw this garden last week and thought of you, readers. I'd love to know what you make of it, and that's why it's Hot Plot or Not? Number 4. If you're new to the concept, it's simple: I show you a picture of a garden, and you judge it "hot or not"... 12 Sep 09 Did I kill Victoria with kindness? I took this photo of the Victoria plum tree in my garden yesterday. As you can see, it's not exactly a picture of health. There's a few sad leaves clinging on, rusty and crumpled, and some fruits - just starting to shrivel - left on the tree...
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