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From the Experts @Knoll: Melica uniflora Alba – A Rewarding Challenge! – Tuesday 19th May
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Knoll Gardens recently introduced 2 litre batches of Melica uniflora Alba to its nursery availability. It has taken the team a while to fathom out the best way to grow this early season grass with its dainty white flowers and contrasting fresh green foliage; we find out why it has proved so challenging and what…
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From the Experts @Knoll: Right Plant, Right Place – Monday 18th May
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This has always been an important part of the Knoll Gardens ethos and is nowhere better illustrated than in the creation of the new Dry Meadow. Totalling around 300m2 the project is not extensive but different conditions and microclimates call for varied planting, with four distinct areas; a Dry Meadow, a Rain Garden, an area…
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New project ready for planting
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Our new garden project, with soil sculpted and almost ready for planting.
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Sesleria Greenlees Hybrid
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Neil talks about Sesleria Greenlees Hybrid during the autumn in the garden at Knoll.
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Spring Time Flowers
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While Knoll Gardens is known for it stunning high summer and autumn displays of richly colouring trees and shrubs, combined of course with the fabulous effects of the grasses and perennials, we try very hard to have something in flower for every day of the year. This can be a bit difficult during the winter…
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Designing with Grasses; the best selling practical guide to using grasses
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Written by Knoll`s owner Neil Lucas, Designing with Grasses is the bestselling book you need to learn about grasses and how to use them in our gardens and designed spaces. Extract from the foreword by Rick Darke; Neil has condensed all of his experience into a personal yet universally practical guide to the use of…
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Eye Catching Light Displays
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Not content with providing fabulous displays of eye catching colour shape and form, autumn is the time of year when so many of the flowering grasses display yet another quality that makes them so indispensible to our gardens. Their ability to capture even the smallest rays of sunshine and turn it into a dazzling display…
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Golden Leaved Shade Lovers
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Most golden leaved plants, including shrubs and perennials as well as grasses, can scorch in strong sunshine and so are for the most part best grown in slightly shaded situations where they excel at brightening up often dull and hard to fill spots. Several, such as luzula and carex for example, will also be quite…
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Magical Misty Mornings
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As we edge into October the temperatures drop at night; resulting in some wonderfully misty mornings which are just too fabulous to miss. As you can see from the pictures below it really can be such a magical time of year!
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The Start of a Whole New Season
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This time of year really is peak season for the garden; and with so many of the grasses and perennials at their very best, superbly supported by glorious woody plants, it is not too difficult to see why. Autumn may mark the end of the summer but it is also the start of a whole…
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