Tag: Kew
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Day four: Rubus and Prunus
Today I went off to become more familiar with my beds and we planned to manage a Rubus or two. It was a whole day of gardening, me and the plants, which was good as I need to take in all of the changes that have happened in the last few days and adjust to…
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Day three: in beds with Rubus
As I mentioned before, the South Canal beds, which I am taking care of, are the site of the Rosaceae collection, and Rubus figures prominently in them. Rubus is the Latin name for bramble, and also the genus of the bramble-like family of plants. There are some striking differences in them, some look positively gorgeous,…
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Day two: squaring the circle
On a Tuesday we work in teams rather than individually in our areas, so that we can take on bigger projects; besides, it is a great teambuilding exercise and I had a lot of fun. Today, we were going to plant trees “the Kew way”. As you can imagine, plants are essential to Kew, and…
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Day one: plants come with a label (unlike people)
First morning at Kew meant meeting more people than I will remember the names of, so it was good to spend a quiet afternoon weeding out ivy from the lake bank with just one colleague. During the internship I will be working alongside a 3rd year student of the Kew Diploma in Horticulture: we have…
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Me & Kew
Here we go… After getting my RHS Level 2 qualification and moving on to Level 3, having taken a fantastic free online course on Sustainability and after enrolling in the OU Masters module on Environmental Ethics, I started to send some applications for practical experience placements. Do you know the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew? It’s a beautiful botanical…
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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