Tag: horticulture
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Implementing complex designs
As I am working on the cottage garden design, today’s short masterclass on how to implement complex designs came in quite handy. The new winter display for the Walled Garden, a grass and white gravel knot design, was being finished after a month’s work (as narrated by my colleague who could see from his window)……
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A rambling rose
Surprisingly challenging task for me in the herb garden today, where I was asked to prune a rambling rose to fit on an arch. I had never done that and my colleague explained we were cutting back 1/3rd of the older branches to the ground, then arranging the remaining ones on the arch and shortening…
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Raspberries in cages
This week I will be working in the fruit garden, where, in preparation for the winter, raspberries (Rubus idaeus) need to freed from the netting cages that protected them for birds in the summer. Plaiting netting First of all, we removed the side netting, which is stiffer plastic, and we rolled it up. Then we…
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Horticulture and innovation
Today I was tidying up my shed, one of those routine horticulture jobs that you could do without and that invite numerous breaks. During one I checked my Twitter and James Wong’s caught my attention: @Botanygeek: Yey! My first article for a weekend paper is out today. Why UK hort needs to be dragged into…
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Young apple trees, old apple trees
The London Orchard Project gave me the opportunity to spend another two lovely days pruning. Yesterday, we were in Fryent Park, taking care of a young orchard that had never been pruned before and whose trees required formative pruning. It was a lovely sunny day, and a rather big team was set loose on a…
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What a worthwhile pursuit to restore an orchard!
It was Twitter that brought that to my attention: volunteers required for an orchard restoration project. Restoring an orchards is such a worthwhile project. Appeals against the disappearance of the traditional British orchard have gone on for a while now, the NT and Natural England have long campaigned to save orchards as a matter of…
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The art and science of pruning (Week 18, Thursday and Friday)
About Me
M.Paola Andreoni
I got the first allotment in 2007 (in the UK) and started growing my own food for the first time. Learning as I went along was not enough, so I studied some horticulture. I am striving to abide by organic principles. Brexit gave me a new life in the Netherlands, and two new plots by a nature reserve.
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