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The best thing that I ever did during my time at school was being sent into the school grounds at the age of ten to collect tree leaves and seeds to be matched, labelled and stuck on to sugar paper. Seeds and their methods of dispersal have intrigued me ever
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The genus Salvia is a huge one, with over 700 species in the tropical and temperate parts of the world. Needless to say it is extremely varied and within it are some excellent garden plants. My focus is on the small, shrubby salvias from Mexico and a few of the lesser-known perennial species which are great for height in the centre or back of border.
Read more →Stephen Marsland, PGG member, Lincolnshire This article, and the way I grow our peas, may ruffle a few feathers. We don’t grow them as cordons because we don’t enter growing competitions with them. I’m not a competitive person. Don’t get me wrong, I admire the people who grow massive veg,
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So, I’d been invited to do something with a rundown piece of woodland attached to my local Chapel. I remembered being part of an effort to tidy it up about ten years ago (a couple of years after joining the congregation on my arrival in Framsden to start work at
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I’ve always wanted a little bit of woodland as part of my garden. Living in tied accommodation however, means you get what you get and keep it tidy and maintained. It was nice when we moved to find that our new garden abutted an untidy, overgrown orchard; not ours but a nice compromise.
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Well, I promised to look at some of the species we began to see around the garden of our new tied cottage; So let’s start with our little feathered friends.
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I’m particularly interested to find out the experiences of others when it comes to the standard of day release courses (particularly NVQ’s compared to the old City & Guilds courses). Insufficient funding and cutbacks It’s my impression that the standard of teaching and course content has dropped year on year
Read more →Almost everybody is familiar with the stories of Jesus and the Garden of Gethsemane, a popular pilgrimage spot but also, as it happens, a nice olive garden. After taking in the stunning views from the Mount of Olives we went down to see the ancient olives trees believed to be
Read more →A Growing Garden with Room for Visitors. Time has moved on so quickly since we moved, it’s nearly six years already, and much has changed since the rough plan in ‘Bug Man #3’, so here’s a plan of what it looks like now… The garden layout It’s a garden that
Read more →As part of the PGG Conference 2013 students from the PGG and the HBGS training schemes visited Alitex Greenhouses factory and gardens.
Read more →Fifteen members of the PGG met up at the Nevill Crest and Gun pub in Eridge, near Tunbridge Wells and had a social evening of chatting over a pint or two.
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The PGG’s ‘Guidelines for Working Conditions’ is now on our web site and is downloadable as a pdf file.
Read more →Thank you to Colin and organisers for the fab trip to Lullingstone Castle yesterday evening. Really enjoyed it, and Tom is an inspiration. Looking forward to going back again for a full day’s wandering (and more of a nosey round the plant nursery!). Emma Pearce Visit Emma’s Facebook page
Read more →Plants part 2…The move Maintaining memories Living in our previous tied accommodation had left us with many lovely memories of time spent in the garden, part of these memories was impacted on by the plants we had, and the thought of leaving everything behind could not be entertained. The biggest
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Readers of the PGG Newsletter will have noted that I was getting a little hot under the collar recently about proposed changes, and their implications, to the way in which we are able to save and distribute seed. As is often the case when it comes to politics and its
Read more →Plants part one… An inheritance of sorts! As I mentioned last month part of the reason for being patient, in the creation of my garden, was in order to discover what was there already. To be honest arriving in a March snowstorm left me cold (awful pun!), doubting that there
Read more →A very happy new year to all. May I take this opportunity to wish all PGG, friends and supporters a very happy and prosperous new year. Please continue to support the committee and its representatives again this year, we I’m sure will continue to try and steer the Guild to
Read more →In recent weeks the press has been full of the news of the spread of ash die-back disease (Chalara fraxinea) and the full implications of the disease becoming all too horribly clear. Vigilance is important The main concentration of cases are in mature ancient forests in East Anglia, along the
Read more →Being patient. How the garden started to take shape. I’ve not always been the most patient of men, but it worked in our last tied cottage and I’m pretty committed to stuff that works. I moved to 108 in 1999 to start work at Helmingham Hall Gardens. My Jane joined
Read more →When Tony asked me to contribute to the website I wondered how I might do so without using material I might otherwise be using in the Wildlife Diary. The answer was quite simple, don’t use the same material! The website slot needed to be a little different so I’ve decided
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