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Friday Flora – Fritillaria meleagris

Friday Flora – Fritillaria meleagris

I once caught the meadow at Magdalen College, Oxford, at exactly the right time. Thousands upon thousands of Fritillaria meleagris […]

April 22, 2017 5 8
Friday Flora – Lysichiton americanus

Friday Flora – Lysichiton americanus

Fellow social media addicts may have seen me tweet/Instagram recently about the impressive stands of Lysichiton americanus – or American […]

March 24, 2017 2 4
Happy Waitangi Day – on the sunny side of the world

Happy Waitangi Day – on the sunny side of the world

I started writing this post on 6th February, on a grey, damp and dingy Monday. Like many of my compatriots, […]

February 6, 2017 5 6
Snow It All – the reluctant galanthophile

Snow It All – the reluctant galanthophile

I love plants. I love all plants (except the ones which bite me). Call me a whining liberal, but I […]

February 3, 2017 24 9
Potting Solitaire: A Moving Account of the Summer of 16

Potting Solitaire: A Moving Account of the Summer of 16

As I write, the radio is wittering on about possible snow storms, and raindrops are skittering across my study’s skylight, a glum, grey […]

January 12, 2017 10 6
Two Dozen Moments of Pleasure in 2016

Two Dozen Moments of Pleasure in 2016

How rubbish was 2016 for you? According to most media it was filled with death, destruction and awful politics. Well, […]

December 29, 2016 12 5
Diamonds and Doomed Pixies

Diamonds and Doomed Pixies

Wednesday morning dawned, as forecast, dazzlingly clear and fiercely frosty. The garden was frozen solid and so I reasoned that there […]

December 1, 2016 17 6
Even If We’re Just Planting in the Dark

Even If We’re Just Planting in the Dark

I fell over in the dark last week. As I crashed to the ground time slowed down, as it always […]

November 18, 2016 17 5
Friday Flora – Parrotia persica

Friday Flora – Parrotia persica

I’m not very good at trees. As most of my horticultural career has focused on container planting I have limited experience […]

November 11, 2016 2 5
Drizzly but Dazzling –  a Morning at Westonbirt Arboretum

Drizzly but Dazzling – a Morning at Westonbirt Arboretum

I wasn’t going to write another post this weekend but on Saturday I went to Westonbirt Arboretum with some members […]

October 30, 2016 4 1

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harrietrycroft

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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.
Cakey cakey! The Begonia ‘Apricot Shades’ petals are tasty too.
Cosmos 'Cupcakes'. The bees like this one too.
Cosmos ‘Cupcakes’. The bees like this one too.
Escholzia 'Copper Swirls'
Escholzia ‘Copper Swirls’
T&M's show garden at Jimmy's Farm
T&M’s show garden at Jimmy’s Farm
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Cheadle Hulme chilling. NB Owl and Pussycat at bottom left of photo
Cheadle Hulme chilling. NB Owl and Pussycat at bottom left of photo
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Day of the Dahlia
Day of the Dahlia
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Kamares ware, 1800-1700 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Kamares ware, 1800-1700 BC. Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Victorian Violas
Victorian Violas
Yewbiquitous. Lurking in the Rich Brothers' Cloudy Bay Garden
Yewbiquitous. Lurking in the Rich Brothers’ Cloudy Bay Garden
Meconopsis 'Barney's Blue' on the Harperley Hall stand
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.
Floral headdress by Okishima and Simmonds at the Hillier stand. Perhaps I should concoct something similar.
Their smiles never faltered. Give them a medal!
Their smiles never faltered. Give them a medal!
Stomping on Adam Frost's garden.
Stomping on Adam Frost’s garden.
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In the Pyrenees - no serious botanising for me, unfortunately
In the Pyrenees – no serious botanising for me, unfortunately
In the alpine house at RHS Wisley
In the alpine house at RHS Wisley
Spring plantings at Whichford Pottery
Spring plantings at Whichford Pottery
Early summer explosions at Rousham
Early summer explosions at Rousham
Smart greenhouse and enviable coldframes
Smart greenhouse and enviable coldframes
Into the kitchen garden
Into the kitchen garden
The way through the massive yew hedge
The way through the massive yew hedge
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Gladiator dying of boredom. Somebody give him a book!
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.
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.
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
Burnet moth on knapweed/Zygaena filipendulae on Centaurea nigra
The Walled Nursery
The Walled Nursery
My beloved
My beloved
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Bruce Munro installation at Waddesdon
Statues at Waddesdon wrapped up for winter
Statues at Waddesdon wrapped up for winter
Ridge and furrow in the Cotswolds
Ridge and furrow in the Cotswolds. At its best in winter light.
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With my mother, who seems to be examining a rotten branch
With my mother, who seems to be examining a rotten branch
Tin chapel
Tin chapel
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Macaws, noisy and hilarious, but maybe not ideal house pets
Macaws, noisy and hilarious, but maybe not ideal house pets
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