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A Parrot’s Nest

harrietrycroft

Ex-Head Gardener at Whichford Pottery, now free range gardener, speaker, writer. Gardening is my focus, but I may stray into natural history, rural matters, travel, art... We'll see!

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Cakey cakey! The Begonia ‘Apricot Shades’ petals are tasty too.

Cosmos ‘Cupcakes’. The bees like this one too.

Escholzia ‘Copper Swirls’

T&M’s show garden at Jimmy’s Farm

Cheadle Hulme chilling. NB Owl and Pussycat at bottom left of photo

Day of the Dahlia

Kamares ware, 1800-1700 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum

Victorian Violas

Yewbiquitous. Lurking in the Rich Brothers’ Cloudy Bay Garden

Meconopsis ‘Barney’s Blue’ on the Harperley Hall stand

Floral headdress by Okishima and Simmonds at the Hillier stand. Perhaps I should concoct something similar.

Their smiles never faltered. Give them a medal!

Stomping on Adam Frost’s garden.

In the Pyrenees – no serious botanising for me, unfortunately

In the alpine house at RHS Wisley

Spring plantings at Whichford Pottery

Early summer explosions at Rousham

Smart greenhouse and enviable coldframes

Into the kitchen garden

The way through the massive yew hedge

Gladiator dying of boredom. Somebody give him a book!

Cosmos ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Sow Cosmos and you’ll hardly have time to make a cup of tea before they germinate.

Shreds of habitat – too many are being tidied away. Barn owls like tussocky grass because voles do too.

Burnet moth on knapweed/Zygaena filipendulae on Centaurea nigra

The Walled Nursery

My beloved

Statues at Waddesdon wrapped up for winter

Ridge and furrow in the Cotswolds. At its best in winter light.

With my mother, who seems to be examining a rotten branch

Tin chapel

Macaws, noisy and hilarious, but maybe not ideal house pets

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