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New adventures
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A final post and new adventures
Sorry for the delay, but finally here is my very last post for this blog. Time moves fast, the two new scholars that started at Dixter when I had finished have already been plugging away at their blogs...
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A splendid last planting (but not the last post)
Tues 27th AugWeather: Hot, a day where the sun felt like it was beating down on us. Up to 21°C.One of the jobs given to me in my last week at Dixter, was the delightful task of planting up The Solar...
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Tidying up the garden stock
Weds 20th AugWeather: Hot. Around 20°C.Today we went through the garden stock, getting rid of, weeding, tidying up and organising. Siphoning off excess for sale in the nursery and to donate to Northiam...
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Furnishing the Exotic Garden
Mon 12th AugWeather: FairMaria Castro who is the current HBGBS trainee at Fulham Palace and my peer has come to work with me at Dixter this week, and it was great to have someone with so much energy....
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Gardeners get the best perspective
Mon 29th JulyWeather: Windy & rainy.Right in the midst of the jungle. It was very windy and we had to do emergency staking all around the garden of plants that would be affected and that we had not...
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The day of the Hemerocallis trials
Sat 20th JulyWeather: Warm, overcast but dry.Listening in on the experts. The swathe of daylilies on the bottom are Dixter's own stock of Hemerocallis'Marion Vaughn'. These were not part of the trials...
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Exciting planting
Mon 22nd JulyWeather: Hottest day of the summer so far, apparently up to 34°C!Me and Ellen finished clearing the space behind the Lupinus arboreus in the Peacock Garden, including taking out weeds and...
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Grass ident 05/06/2013
Grass is so common, that it is often overseen. There are great showy ornamental grasses of courses that can really add to the garden, but the common grasses are interesting if you have meadows. Also if...
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All stops out for watering and weeding
Mon 15th JulyWeather: Hot, 25/26 °CCreating rainbows with sprinklers all over the garden.Back at Dixter! The Hemerocallis trial is due to take place at the end of this week, so all day was spent...
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A week at the Chelsea Physic Garden
I have always been interested in the Chelsea Physic Garden. It is the oldest botanical garden in the country, originating as an apothecary garden in the 1600s, it is a garden that retains a lot of...
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The HBGBS study tour
At the end of June there was a study tour for all of the HBGBS trainees. It was a chance to meet everyone again before they all went off in different directions to do further other things, get some...
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Propastinacating
Sun 23rd JuneWeather: Constantly changing, very windy.The main High Garden stockbed floated with Pastinaca sativa.I was on nursery duty today. It has been really wet, so I only had to spot water pot...
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A summer medley
Mon 1st JulyWeather: Beautifully hot.Kemal pointing at Geranium macrorrhizum'Bevan's Variety'I cleared the area near the Blue Garden and the cellar. I deadheaded Geranium macrorrhizum 'Bevan's Variety'...
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Rose ident 20/06/2013
Dixter as mentioned before has over 140 roses, but scattered throughout the garden and mixed into the borders. Frank one of our lovely volunteers and a big lover of roses, brought in some of his...
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Sticky Wicket
Sat 22nd JuneWeather: Blustery, rainy, grey.Sticky Wicket is the garden & meadows of Pam Lewis who she initially created with her husband Peter Lewis when they moved there in 1986. Pam and Peter...
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A hotch potch week
Tues 18th JuneWeather: Muggy, cloudy hot & humid, strong sun in the afternoon. Up to 20°C!A day of many things - we put some Cyperis papyrifer in some non-sterilised loam so that they were ready to...
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Planting up the Exotic
BeforeThurs 13th JuneWeather: It went up to about 16°C apparently, but felt colder.Worked with gardener Graham to clear an area in the Exotic garden for planting, taking up old Hedychium plants and...
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Hemerocallis trial & the start of the Exotic
Tues 11th JuneWeather: Around 14°C. Grey but warm & hazy, with a very fine drizzle later in the day. Quite beautiful weather actually.Last year in October, we prepared a bed in the High Garden to...
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Meadow study day
Mon 10th JuneWeather: 13 - 14°C grey & cloudy.The meadow down at the farm complex, in year two it is already full of wildflowers - Leucanthemum vulgare, red & white clover, Centauria nigra...
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