Tag: Kew
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Fraxinus (Week 19, Tuesday)
I get a bit miffed when the media get hold of a piece of news and make such a fuss about it and breed hysteria just to sell more. As it was with fungus Chalara fraxinea, which causes ash dieback, earlier in the year. Now ask anyone about plants and they will know practically nothing about…
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RHS Wisley (Week 19, Monday)
Today we went for a trip to the Royal Horticultural Society’s flagship garden in Surrey, Wisley. It is a beautifully manicured garden that I have had the pleasure to visit three times this year, with herbaceous borders by famous designers, trial grounds for plants so they can be judged for their garden worthiness and get…
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The art and science of pruning (Week 18, Thursday and Friday)
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Spiraeas (Week 18, Wednesday)
Was finalising the stockcheck of bed 435-03 today, which is Spirea central. This is one of the tidier beds, with plants well within their own boundaries for the great part. But a couple of the labels on the Spireas got mixed up, so I had to undertake a bit of investigative work. Internet at the…
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The return of the bindweed (Week 18, Monday)
I wrote extensively about bindweed and my experiment to see how long it would take for it to regrow, once carefully dug out from as deep as possible in the entrails of the earth… In any case, here is a photographic summary from the first week of June, when I carried out the clearance –…
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Prunus laurocerasus (Week 17, Thursday and Friday)
I have spent the last two days dealing with a massive plant of Prunus laurocerasus I had my eyes on since shortly after I started on the South Canal beds. Bed 437-02, as it is known to the Kew-initiated, had two massive prostrate species of Prunus: laurocerasus and laurocerasus var. salicifolia. We had tackled the P.…
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Under cover (Week 17, Wednesday)
It was raining today and as I was not feeling too well, so I asked to work indoors, and was sent to the Princess of Wales Conservatory, with some lovely people, doing weeding among weird and wonderful plants. Hope you enjoy their pictures, while I’m off under cover again, of my bedsheets this time. I…
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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