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Spring Flowers
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While the annual cut back of the blowsy summer flowering grasses and perennials was completed during March this month, and especially with the recent cold snap, the main borders in the garden can look rather ‘flat’ for a few weeks while those cut back plants in the borders start their fresh seasonal growth that will…
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Spring Greens
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As the larger plantings of deciduous grasses and perennials such as in the Dragon garden or Decennium borders at Knoll are cut down in readiness for the coming seasons impressive re growth, the value of the smaller group of evergreen grasses (botanically actually grass allies and not true grasses), becomes even more apparent. Evergreen grasses…
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Winters Light
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Sunshine is welcome at any time of the year but especially so during the frequently dull and damp days of January. Whenever we experience a sharp frost the up side is that the clear skies can be a precursor to a clear and sunny, if nippy, morning. When this happens the low sunshine and clear…
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A Fabulous Finale
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As the garden ventures into late October the shadows lengthen and the temperatures drop, but nonetheless the garden and its plants continue to offer an ever changing mix of bright and subtle colourations, of tactile forms and fabulous shapes that can almost overload the senses. So much is happening so fast and virtually every day…
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Knoll Gardens Plant Selections
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A look at some of the new plants that Knoll Gardens have developed and launched for UK gardeners
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A celebration of grasses
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A visual journey through the seasons at Knoll Gardens as part of this year’s rather unique autumnal Chelsea Flower Show
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Mellow Mornings and Soft Light
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With the arrival of September and the almost magical softer autumnal light, the garden comes into its peak season of interest. And it signals the arrival of my favourite time of year. The magnificent group of deciduous grasses offer up their seasonal highs of colour and combined with the many summer flowering perennials and autumn…
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Introducing two new plants from Knoll Gardens
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Knoll Gardens is delighted to introduce Festuca Blue Haze and Panicum Sea Mist. These new plants are being introduced this Spring 2021 and are a result of our ongoing programme of selecting new grasses that will perform well in UK gardens. Festuca Blue Haze is a selection from the native grass Festuca rubra and produces…
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Looking After Your Grasses
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With the coming of longer days and warmer temperatures this is the time of year when some key maintenance is needed in order to ensure that your grasses are kept happy and are ready to provide another long season of display. Early March is about the time when we start our annual ‘spring clean’ (image…
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Early Morning in the October Garden
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Autumn is peak season in the garden when a happy partnership of autumn performing woody plants and the massed flowers and foliage of the deciduous grasses combine in an autumnal extravaganza of colours, textures and forms to such fabulous effect that is quite simply the high point of our whole year. Early morning is good…
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