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MyGardenSchool's Blog · 2d ago

THE Plant of The Chelsea Flower Show this Year – Anthriscus sylvestris ‘Raven’s Wing’

Each Year at the Chelsea Flower Show there seems to be ‘The’ Plant that is used in the garden designs. This year is no exception – and Anthriscus sylvestris ‘Raven’s Wing’ gets the accolade. Perhaps because the gardens are trending towards more of a natural look and feel, this natural looking Chervi
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MyGardenSchool's Blog · 3d ago

Our Tutor’s Quotes from this Year’s Chelsea Flower Show

John Brookes (MBE) : After nearly 50 years of Chelsea visiting, this was not a memorable one. Designs seem to be going back to traditional, the moderns (except the roof garden [Patricia Fox for RBS], which I liked), looked very dated. Noel Kingsbury: “Just made my once every few years visit to the C
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MyGardenSchool's Blog · 1W ago

Get Your Garden Touched by the Design-Hands of the Greatest Gardeners of our Time – Without the Expense of Meeting Them

Critically Acclaimed Gardening Greats: John Brookes (MBE), Noel Kingsbury, & Michael King, Launch New Online Courses with MyGardenSchool to Propagate Gardening Excellence Globally. Perhaps the most influential living landscape designer of our time, John Brookes MBE, is launching two new online garde
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MyGardenSchool's Blog · 1W ago

Floriade 2012 – First Impressions from Michael King

Every ten years an international garden festival takes place in the Netherlands called Floriade. It is open from spring until October 7 and this time it is situated in Venlo, in the south of Holland, near to the German border.I visited two weeks ago to find out what was there and to catch the tulip
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MyGardenSchool's Blog · 2W ago

Gutter Gardening

We have all heard of Window Boxes but what about Gutter Gardening? Alaskan resident SUZANNE FORSLING has come up with a novel way to grow her salad vegetables Suzanne was faced with some fairly uniquely difficult environmental and climatic circumstances; include frozen soil, (she lived near a glacie
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MyGardenSchool's Blog · 1M ago

Great Places to Buy Plants and Seeds Online

Where can you buy plants and seeds online? www.mr-fothergills.co.uk Mr Fothergills Direct – is one of the UKs quite traditional suppliers of flower and vegetable seeds and plants backed with traditional family values – they assure quality and service They have a reasonably good range, and also stock
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MyGardenSchool's Blog · 1M ago

Three Things We Must Do – To Save The Bees, Ourselves And The Planet

The call to ‘save the bees’ has done a couple of circuits of the globe now and to those who can see the bigger picture, this crisis highlights issues that affect not just bees, but the entirety of life on Earth. It is becoming clear that we need to change our ways. Here are three...
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MyGardenSchool's Blog · 1M ago

Get Gardening Over Easter

What better time to kick start your garden than over the Easter break.  This way you’ll have a beautiful garden for the rest of the year.   Whilst you’re getting on with the following gardening jobs to be done over the Easter hols consider treating yourself to an online garden design or horticulture
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MyGardenSchool's Blog · 1M ago

To visit this weekend: Fritillaria meleagris meadows at Magdalen College, Oxford University, England

Who doesn’t love fritillaria meleagris?   If you happen to be in the UK at this time of year, a visit to Magdalen College, Oxford University is well worth a a visit.   Seeing these flowers in a natural habitat is like nothing else.  It’s very spectacular – they light up like jewels in the...
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MyGardenSchool's Blog · 1M ago

How to Prune Roses

by Michael Marriot. For More on Pruning Roses and growing your own beautiful roses go to Michael’s David Austin Roses Course. The timing of pruning is important. In the UK I always try to prune over Christmas or as early as possible in the New Year and at the absolute latest by the end of...
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