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Caring for your grasses
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Grasses are such a beautiful, tactile and useful group of plants to use in our gardens; and all they ask in return is for a small amount of fairly easy annual maintenence to keep them looking good and happy for another whole year. Easy as it is, one of the most popular questions we are…
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Small and rather beautiful…..
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Admittedly February is not the time of year most of us would think of going into the garden to enjoy some flowers. Certainly we have the first camellias in flower but having walked around the garden this morning I found quite a few other shrubby plants that have the most beautiful flowers. But you have…
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A busy summer……
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Whist our season ticket holders can enjoy the garden’s changes at first hand, less regular visitors are often unaware of why and how we are evolving. We try to address this with newsletters, signage and our team of highly knowledgeable volunteers, but with so much going on it can be increasingly difficult to provide information,…
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Springtime Bonanza
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This may be the quiet time of year for our main grass and perennial plantings, but it is hardly an uninteresting time to be in the garden…… Knoll was originally a private botanic garden; the Wimborne Botanic Gardens, and as a result of plantings made in the 1970’s and 1980’s we are very lucky to…
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Such a lovely morning….
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After a drop of very early rain while still dark the early morning sunshine reminds me of just how wonderful this time of year can be, with drops of moisture still glistening in the bright autumn sunshine. So many lovely plants look especially radiant at this time of year; take for example the purple leaved…
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To Cut or Not to Cut ?
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…..that is the question that Neil will be answering on the 16th March during the Preparing for Spring mini masterclass that kicks off the events programme at Knoll Gardens this year. Grasses are a beautiful easy care group of plants that provide both beauty and utility in our gardens; but to get the best out of the plants…
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Fabulous Autumn Colours
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In many ways it has been a really wonderful autumn. The weather may not have always been perfect but we have seen some really quite fabulous colours since we started to get some cooler evenings in early October. Molinia Dauerstrahl for example (above) is now a wonderful warm honey brown that works so beautifully with the…
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A beautiful morning in the garden….
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It was one of those truly wonderful mornings; where the light is good, the air is warm, there is no wind and the garden seems almost to purr with pleasure. Just too good not to take some pictures! One of my favourite views in the garden (below), at the bottom of the Long Walk, has Molinia…
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Looking good at the moment…..
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Last weekends storm had the most amazing thunder and lightening I can recall that took out our internet for nearly a week; but it did also provide us with almost and inch and a half of rain (in 40 minutes!) and so the garden has been looking great this week. Persicaria polymorpha (above), has once again achieved…
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A New (not so) Giant Oatgrass
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One of the real delights of being a specialist nursery is that we can come across some really wonderful new plants for UK gardens. While we do not have a formal breeding programme as such over the twenty one years that I have been at Knoll we have gradually worked on and refined our selection…
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