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Edinburgh Garden Diary

Month: October 2018

The last of the summer flowers

31 October 2018Categories Autumn, Cut Flowers34 Comments on The last of the summer flowers

I've been intending to share these flowers with you for several weeks, and here they finally are, not least because having a photograph with a picture of 'October' in it is a great motivation to get it published before November. Life has been busy (isn't it always) since my garden design course started in September.…

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An autumn garden reshuffle

11 October 2018Categories Autumn, In The Garden14 Comments on An autumn garden reshuffle

It was a good summer for the back garden. I enjoyed sitting out on the terrace in the hot sunshine, gazing in unabashed admiration as various pleasing planting combinations waxed and waned. How could any of the plants yet to come be as good as these tulips and forget-me-nots, I wondered in May, as the…

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    • Book review: Some Flowers by Vita Sackville-West
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    • Cambo Estate, Fife: a Festival of Snowdrops
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    • Two Cotswolds Gardens. 1: Snowshill Manor
    • Galanthophilia (and other charms of spring) at Shepherd House, Inveresk
    • ‘Now the leaves are falling fast’: Dawyck, late autumn
    • “Time Rolls His Ceaseless Course”: Abbotsford House and Gardens
    • Shepherd House, Inveresk
    • The Newliston Estate: A Silent Eloquence
    • Arley Hall, Cheshire: the gardens in Spring
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    • Botanic panoramic: February 2015
    • Tyninghame Gardens: a summer trip
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