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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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The new Rain Gardens at Knoll
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As part of our new Dry Meadow project (above), that we started last year we created a series of rain gardens. This was partly practical as we wished to control surface water run off that can become something of an issue during periods of wet weather, even on our generally dry sandy soil, and partly…
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High Summer in the Garden
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Although we are still quite early into the month, the sun is getting a little lower in the sky and the light is just beginning to take on that almost magical autumnal quality that I love so much. While some of the main groups of grasses such as miscanthus, pennisetum and panicum are still on…
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Backlit and very beautiful
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Grasses have many qualities that make them such great plants for our gardens and possibly the one that I have come to enjoy as much as any other individual quality is their ability to reflect the sunshine; which provides us with some transitory, but quite fabulous ‘light shows’. Not all grasses will do this of…
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