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Snowdrops and Creative Pruning – Ivy Croft Garden
I often publish posts about summer days out in winter to help us warm up so as we are in the middle of an exceptionally hot period of weather I shall do the opposite and publish this post I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in flowering bulbs, garden design, garden photography, garden seat, garden seating, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, grasses, hardy perennials, Herefordshire, irises, kitchen gardens, log piles, logs, National Garden Scheme, NGS, nurseries, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees and shrubs, spring bulbs, trees, village gardens, Winter Gardening, winter gardens, Yellow Book Gardens
Tagged cornus, dogwoods, flowering bulbs, gardens of Herefordshire, Herefordshire, Herefordshire gardens, hollies, log piles, pleached limes, pleaching, salix, snowdrops, spring bulbs, topiary., willow
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A Garden in Winter – RHS Rosemoor – Part 2
We continued our tour of the RHS Rosemoor Garden as we passed under the underpass which led us to the original gardens now called Lady Anne’s Garden. As we left the tunnel and regained daylight, albeit rather dull, we heard … Continue reading
Posted in flowering bulbs, garden design, garden photography, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, ornamental trees and shrubs, spring bulbs, trees, Winter Gardening, winter gardens, woodland, woodlands
Tagged bamboo, Devon, Gardens of Devon, RHS, RHS gardens, RHS Rosemoor, Rosemoor, salix, willow, willows
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Somerset Willows
I love Salix (willows) – they are one of my favourite trees almost on a par with Betulas (Birches). I always have liked them, our own native species and the garden varieties we can grow. We have several at home … Continue reading
Posted in countryside, landscapes, meadows, trees
Tagged Somerset, wetland, wetlands, willow, willow features, willow structures, willow weaving, willows
The Wonders of Willow – Even more willow magic!
We enjoyed a day playing with willow recently in the garden of friends Liz and Rich’s new home. They wanted us to build a play feature from willow for their youngsters Ella and Edward. So we arrived amongst the mess … Continue reading
The Wonder of Willows – part three
So for the third in my posts about the wonder of willows we move to our allotment community garden site, Bowbrook Allotment Community (www.bowbrookallotments.co.uk) Here we grow many different varieties of Salix, willows with different habits, leaf shapes and in … Continue reading
Posted in allotments, colours, community gardening, gardening, ornamental trees and shrubs, recycling, trees, Winter Gardening
Tagged Bowbrook Allotment Community, communal gardens, community gardening, community spirit, pruning, recycling, recycling in the garden, willow, willow features
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The Wonder of Willows – part two
For part two in this series about the wonder of willows we start in our own garden at our home “Avocet” in Shropshire. The first photo shows our striking, architectural Salix erythrocadium flexuosa with the orange coloured tips to its … Continue reading
Posted in colours, gardening, recycling, trees, Winter Gardening
Tagged ornamental trees, pollarding, trees, Violet Willow, willow, willow pruning
The Wonder of Willows – part one
We spent a cold February day at the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust reserve in Gloucestershire, Slimbridge. Work was going on coppicing and pollarding the many willows around the site. It is so good to see this ancient countryside craft still … Continue reading
