Category Archives: Shropshire

Julie’s Garden

Posted on June 12, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

Jude and I enjoy our monthly summer visits to gardens with fellow members of the Hardy Plant Society Shropshire Group but in addition we visit other gardens with our mini-group colleagues. The mini-groups are sub-groups of the main county group … Continue reading →

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A new NGS Yellow Book garden, Longden Manor

Posted on June 4, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

It is always exciting finding a new NGS garden to visit and when we find one that is just a few fields away as the crow flies it is extra interesting. Longden Manor with its organic farm still had to … Continue reading →

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The Citadel – a May garden full of colour.

Posted on May 22, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

We started our monthly garden visits with our friends from the Hardy Plant Society Shropshire Group with a visit to a garden called The Citadel, which although it is close, within 20 miles of where we live, we had never … Continue reading →

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Seasonal visits to two very different gardens

Posted on May 15, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

Instead of a monthly visit to the same garden for a whole 12 months I decided to look at two gardens, one small and one large. We have already visited the large one, Bodnant Gardens in North Wales already. So … Continue reading →

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My Garden Journal 2019 – April

Posted on April 30, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

April is one of our busiest months in our Avocet patch, a month when we are busy, our wildlife colleagues are busy and the plants are growing apace. We have tasks to complete as well as usual garden routines. As … Continue reading →

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The NGS get together at Hodnet

Posted on April 12, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

Every year in late March we attend a get together with the NGS county organiser and the garden openers. This year was our friend Allison’s first year as county organiser and as her garden is small she had to arrange … Continue reading →

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My Garden Journal 2019 – March

Posted on April 1, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

It is already time for sharing my third month’s entries in my garden journal. So here are the March pages for you to enjoy and for you to see what the garden has been up to and what we have … Continue reading →