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Garden notes number thirteen, the spider and the ant, (more narrow observation,) and some new flowers.
Look what happened in ‘the weed from paradise’, (see number 12), the Welsh poppy. How much am I seeing that I ordinarily wouldn’t? I noticed the white spider inside a poppy, waiting. By the time I came back with my … Continue reading
Garden notes number twelve; sex, pests, culture wars (art v. nature), paradise and narrow observation
Yesterday I browsed again – I much prefer that quiet bovine metaphor to that of the muscular (and possibly drowning) surfer – through Keith Thomas’s fascinating Man and the Natural World, thinking to illustrate, through an assembly of quotations, the … Continue reading
Garden notes number eleven, some more spring flowers
I should record the date – April 15th. They’re coming thick and fast, literally. There seems to be a precise order, a rhythm to spring events which I could never recall afterwards or before. Spring confounds memory – is it … Continue reading
Garden notes number ten, the itch to intervene, a few lines from John Clare, Adam in Eden, Haberlea rhodopensis and DH Lawrence
I’m remembering the radical ecologist (see Garden notes number three) and his airy contempt for gardeners. But also a few lines from John Clare: Where last years leaves and weeds decay / March violets are in blow I’d rake the … Continue reading
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Garden notes number nine, Eryngium giganteum, honesty again, slugs
Most of the honesty plants which will flower at this time next year have already appeared. I went looking for them in the garden so as to show them to you; there were more of them than I had realised, … Continue reading
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Garden notes number eight, honesty, and an introduction to self-seeding biennials and annuals
This is the end, in February. It comes just before the beginning, naturally. This is what you get for being honest. But I was going to say something about annuals and biennials. (Biennials are often just annuals with an intermission, … Continue reading
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Gardening Notes number seven, some spring (and winter) flowers
Previously on Gardening Notes – the intricacies of intimate weeding, the scorn of the radical ecologist, the disappointment of bare earth in Wiltshire, the possibilities for a garden for old age, the harmless vandalism of the Swiss cow, the wonders … Continue reading
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Garden Notes number six, more hellebores
I said I’d bring you more delightful spring flowers – they are on their way, but first, I’m still crazy about Helleborus x hybridus. (The ‘x’ by the way is put into a name to show that it’s a hybrid, … Continue reading
Garden Notes number five, Helleborus x hybridus (formerly known as Helleborus orientalis)
It’s the plant of the month. Well, last month maybe. (April does bring strong competition.) And the month before. They begin to flower in January and still look good in April; the petals keep their colour. No species is so … Continue reading
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Gardening Notes number four, Gardening for Old Age
Gardens for old age. I first wrote about this in good time, probably 25 years ago. It’s a bit late now. At a recent conference dedicated to praising the virtues of gardens and nature (spiritual, emotional, wellbeingall), only one problem … Continue reading
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