tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61308946503585138712023-11-15T23:36:37.394-08:00Sublime garden designAbdul Hakimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08657531610950977475noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-28931706237724533812017-07-25T13:10:00.001-07:002017-07-25T13:10:13.259-07:00A new pond for the Harewood Learning Garden...
Work has
continued today in the Learning Garden, with the help of Audrey, Trevor and his
team. Today, the focus was clearing the pond area, and preparing the
vegetable plot.
After
last week's session, and our battle with the Philadelphus shrub,
Trevor and his team were today successful in removing the plant from our pond
area. In addition to this, the team cleared Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-49025029489414100722017-07-25T12:47:00.003-07:002017-07-25T12:47:56.245-07:00Sublime evening in the garden
The Golden Time of Day; the magic hour draws near. I sit on a deckchair
sipping a beer (Żywiec Porter, an excellent brew let down - as most
Polish beers are - by being too sweet), gazing across the side garden as
the sun dips below the trees. That sublime mood of well-being comes
over me.
Time to immortalise the evening for the blog. I nip in for the camera, and take a few shots to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-15530997850995527082017-07-25T12:46:00.003-07:002017-07-25T12:46:35.929-07:00Sublime English gardens
The first four pics are at Hanham Court, the last four at Coughton Court.
Over
the last week or two I've had the pleasure of visiting some great
gardens with my private guests all of which are fairly recent creations
and all quintessentially English..the gardens that is ! Coughton Court ,
a National Trust property in Warwickshire has enjoyed quite a bit of
restoration and is now a Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-7698761626846071822017-07-14T13:10:00.000-07:002017-07-25T13:11:03.255-07:00Progress in the Learning Garden!
The
Harewood Learning team have this Monday begun work on the Harewood Learning
Garden, and have learnt first hand the hard work of gardening!
Our aims
of the first gardening session were to clear the corner of the garden ready for
our pond area to be built, and begin work on our habitat pile. The corner
of the garden in the picture below is going to be where we dig our pond, so theUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-51543706050109985932017-07-11T13:08:00.000-07:002017-07-25T13:08:57.378-07:00Working on the Borders this Summer...
Work is in progress on the Terrace today...various flowers
are currently on display in the Terrace Borders...
Pruning Rose Ophelia
Box Hedging before trimming
Flower borders in June with Ophelia Rose and Dictamus Fraxinella
Dictamus Fraxinella in the Borders
Trimmed Box Hedging
Clipping the roses in the Border
Cutting the Box hedging on the Terrace Parterre
Spring Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-84207068841383321922017-07-06T12:54:00.000-07:002017-07-25T12:56:18.831-07:00The garden is full of spiders
The garden is full of spiders - Between every shrub or tree, there's a
spider's web. And at the centre of these webs are garden spiders of all
sizes. I notice an interesting thing - that the smaller and medium sized
spiders are entirely OK about a human wandering up to them with a
tripod and zooming a long black lens in on them. On the other hand, the
largest spiders - the really Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-18501157584683775252017-07-03T12:53:00.000-07:002017-07-25T12:53:59.576-07:00Pregnant cats should not climb trees
Pregnant cats should not climb trees - Moni's cat that came from Łódź to become a permanent part of the
household is pregnant. Liluś eats more, spends more time resting on rugs
or radiators and is less frisky. However, that other call of nature -
the imperative to ascend trees - proved stronger than the maternal
instinct. She spent all night up this silver birch. But by morning the
thoughtUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-12729736966704077332017-07-02T12:50:00.000-07:002017-07-25T12:51:45.715-07:00My ogród is my działka
My ogród is my działka - Weather-wise, it's such a lovely day. From yesterday evening
until tomorrow morning there will not be a single cloud in the heavens
above Our City. Hot (30C), dry, with just a whisper of a breeze.
Absolutely ideal. Time, then, to make the most of it - some
sun-protection cream, a deck-chair, and a day to enjoy the garden (below). Enjoying rest and solitude, I ponderUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-20531617679239094992017-07-01T12:49:00.000-07:002017-07-25T12:50:13.424-07:00Eat Polish apples, drink Polish cider
Eat Polish apples, drink Polish cider - So Putin's pulled down the shutters on Polish food imports - this will
hurt those Polish producers and middlemen who thought they could prosper
by feeding The Bear. The embargo will reverberate across the Polish
economy - GDP growth is likely to slow by a few tenths of a percentage
point (outturn for 2014 more likely to be 2.9% than 3.3%), while
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-3069638497802840572017-06-25T12:57:00.000-07:002017-07-25T12:57:37.445-07:00Fieldfare in midwinter
Fieldfare in midwinter - I
spotted this bird in our garden from the ground floor study - this is
somewhat rarer than the brown-all-over common-or-garden thrush. The grey
head and speckled belly struck me as unusual.
Thanks to reader Mis for identifying the bird as a kwiczoł - fieldfare - which according to Wikipedia is a migratory bird that normally winters in the south.
And a propos
of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-50128535717732668682017-06-20T13:03:00.000-07:002017-07-25T13:04:02.608-07:00Walled Garden update...heritage varieties and organic techniques to prevent pests
Since we’ve had all that rain and, now that the sun has come
out, the vegetable crops are growing really well in the Walled Garden!
Releasing ladybirds
Simpson Lettuce
Carot-fly barrier protects crops without using chemicals
Globe Artichokes
Grape Vines in the Glasshouses (not currently accesible to visitor, but watch this space!)
Lettuce Rows
Onions growing well...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-77724250509845462322017-06-14T12:59:00.000-07:002017-07-25T12:59:36.568-07:00First apple in my garden
First apple in my garden - What's
that splash of red on our apple tree? Why, it's an apple. Indeed the
very first one on the tree, planted five years ago. While our garden has
proved fruitful, with lots of blackberries (turned into delicious
smoothies by my wife, blended with raspberries and blueberries), sour
cherries, white raspberries and wild strawberries, our apple tree has
not, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-64478035275280841512017-06-13T13:04:00.000-07:002017-07-25T13:05:04.319-07:00The Himalayan Garden is sublime in June...
‘Himalaya’, ‘The Abode of Snow’, the vast range of mountain peaks
which arc across Central Asia, has an extraordinary diversity of flora.
Alan Titchmarsh, who opened the garden in May 2009, said “The
Harewood Himalayan Garden is a hidden gem and second to none in the UK.
Tell your friends!”
Harewood’s Himalayan Garden, a redevelopment of the ‘Rock Garden’
nurtured by Princess Mary Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-74926111941734542022017-05-16T13:07:00.000-07:002017-07-25T13:07:37.385-07:00New bumblebee lodges in the Walled Garden...
In
response to the global crisis in bee populations bumblebee ‘lodges’ are
being installed in amongst the vegetable and fruit beds and orchard in
the Walled Garden at Harewood for the second year.
Head Gardener Trevor explains it’s all part of Harewood’s
conservation and sustainability strategy, “We use bumblebees to help
with pollination in the orchard and vegetable garden. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-63383780571244122842017-05-16T13:00:00.000-07:002017-07-25T13:00:47.180-07:00No garden for moles
No garden for moles - I
am open to all methods of fighting mole infestation other than poisons.
I looked at some yesterday; the packets all have warnings like "do not
use if you have a cat or dog in the garden" or "do not use if you grow
berries in your garden". Both apply to us, so no poison. Above: ripening blackcurrants on the edge of the lawn, close to the area of greatest mole intensityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-52984402007073443892017-05-08T13:01:00.000-07:002017-07-25T13:01:48.976-07:00Moles in my own garden
Moles in my own garden - I
woke up on Saturday morning to the sight of several molehills on our
back lawn. My wife, having taken advice from our gardeners, bought three
ultrasound devices, seen stuck into the molehills (above),
which give off an annoying high-pitched beep every 30 seconds. The
number of molehills has not increased overnight, so it seems effective
as a deterent (I didn't Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-23854288852642211182017-05-01T13:02:00.000-07:002017-07-25T13:02:44.112-07:00A Celebration of The Garden
What do I love most about deep suburb, living on the city's rim? Urban Varsovians have their little balconies and their podwórka, I have this. The sublime. Man and nature in spiritual and aesthetic harmony.
This
post prompts me to talk about the use of polarising filters in
photography. The circular polariser allows one to get bluer skies. Is
this trickery? My view is this. On sunny days,Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130894650358513871.post-20463864470148994732017-04-11T13:06:00.000-07:002017-07-25T13:06:16.190-07:00Blooming Borders in the Gardens at Harewood!
Blooming Borders in the Gardens at Harewood! As well as our traditional
‘English’ cottage garden flowers, some of our more tender exotics, such as the
lovely blue salvia patens (Gentian Sage) from Mexico and the ornamental onions
from central Asia are to be seen in flower now too...
Flower border in early June
Rose Constance Spry
Rose Ophelia
Rose Blairii No.2
Salvia Patens
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com