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Gardening takes off in the Baltics
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } I've been travelling to eastern Europe since 1993 when Jo got a job in Bratislava, Slovakia. I love the area, for all sorts of reasons, and am particularly fascinated by...
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Białowieza - Europe's last virgin forest
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }The Białowieza Forest in eastern Poland is somewhere I have always wanted to go – the only genuinely virgin, untouched lowland forest in Europe. Last week I finally got to...
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Voyages east and west - but new plants needed
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }Three year old street planting in Vilnius, Lithuania At home after some very interesting travelling. I blogged before aboutLatvia and particularly Lithuania. And then...
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Overwhelmed by garden books?
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }Books.Many gardeners accumulate as many books as they do plant species. Now that we are moving, I face the problem of culling an extensive library that has not had a serious...
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Back in the summer I received a surprise email, from the Almeida Theatre in London, who were staging a play - Albion, in which a garden plays a crucial role. As part of the background to the play, they...
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Transplanting myself, or is it uprooting?
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }One of the last pictures I took at Montpelier Cottage. Late September.“I felt so shocked I shut the computer right away and could not get over the news ” wrote a friend...
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Portugal's firestorm disaster - eucalyptus to blame
This is the old manor house which Jo's daughter and family were thinking of buying, but the estate agent hadn't updated the pictures.P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }There was a day last year, October the...
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House Plants are back!
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }After many years of being seriously uncool, house plants seem to be back in fashion. My son, more in tune with the zeitgeist than I (after all he lives in Clapton in east...
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Singapore's Garden Extravaganza - with a focus on cloud forests
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }The last time I was in Singapore which must have been getting on for ten years ago, Gardens by the Bay was under construction. The roads near the Marina were lined by trees...
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The New Zealand look - the colony's revenge?
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } First time in New Zealand. Which is a bit like arriving on another planet in plant terms. But not others – very strange travelling such a long way to arrive somewhere so...
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Australian plants amaze, astonish and confuse
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }The stunning landscape installation by Kate Cullity at the Cranbourne Botanic Garden, Melbourne, evokes the Australian Outback Still mulling over my recent but brief trip to...
View ArticleSo often it's gardeners make great gardens not owners or designers
I recently had an upsetting email from a colleague and friend who has just had his last day at the job he has had for nearly twenty years. He feels forced out because of decisions made about his job,...
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Let's stop talking about 'natural' gardens
The word 'natural' must be one of the most abused in the English language. Its use generally implies 'good', and all-too often 'buy this product'. Needless to say the two areas of life it gets applied...
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We have the new perennials but where is the new perennial garden
A recent blog post by Marc 'le jardinier' is tries to provoke a discussion about whether the so-called 'New Perennial' movement has had much of an impact on British gardens. His conclusion is 'not...
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Ecological Planting - The revolution will never be bought at the garden centre.
A Larry Weaner garden in New England. To be featured in the October issue of Gardens Illustrated. Photo credit: Claire TakacsWho remembers that wonderful Gil Scott-Heron rap song “The Revolution Will...
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End of an era at Hummelo
So, you have until October 27th to see Piet and Anja’s private garden at Hummelo. After that, sorry, but its no more visiting..... continue on https://www.noelkingsbury.com/noelsgarden-blog/where I...
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Louisiana, Denmark - a perfect synthesis of sculpture, archictecture and...
Louisiana, a contemporary art gallery north of Copenhagen just has to be one of my most favourite places. Not for the contents so much (I am no great fan of contemporary art) but for the extraordinary...
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Portugal Centro Region - the front line of climate change?
You want to know what impact climate change will have on landscapes? Come to the Centro Region of Portugal and take a look.Having spent some months in the region, I really feel on the front line of...
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Olivier Filippi and the Mediterranean garden of the future
An overview of the garden created by Olivier and Carla Filippi over the last thirty years. To many of us it appears to be a quintessentially Mediterranean landscape, all those grey hummocks and of...
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Secrets to using grasses
Grasses simply are the best thing in the garden right now. At the most dismal time of year, when there is almost nothing else to take our minds off grey skies and cold winds, grasses can not just make...
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Horti-Culture in Camellia-City Porto
Porto in northern Portugal is the city of the camellia. The public parks and people’s gardens are full of them. For those of us who are only used to seeing them as head high, or maybe in Cornwall, up...
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Why is Britain in such a mess? Part Two
If you are watching, horrified, at the continuing political chaos in Britain you may like to read Part Two of my occasional political posting 'Why is Britain in such a mess?' It's an attempt to explain...
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Mind the Gap!
Why is so much perennial planting so gappy?Why do so many gardens, private and public, which are supposed to be about growing plants, look like displays of soil or exhibitions of mulch?Here, I'd like...
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Dutch garden and landscape travels
Well here we are. Another slightly lonely night in the camper van. I'm trundling around The Netherlands researching a possible book on contemporary Dutch garden design. It was an idea the leading...
View ArticleThis blog has moved !
This is my old blog, which I will keep as an archive. I am now blogging entirely from my website:https://www.noelkingsbury.com/noelsgarden-blogSee you there!
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