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Category: Garden
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Bee Aware !
Events, Garden
I am finding it a little difficult to believe that already a week has passed since our wonderfully successful event dedicated to Bees was held here at Knoll on the 16th August! The event was organised by our associated charity the Knoll Gardens Foundation and was supported by many other organisations and individuals who generously gave of their…
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Shrubs Looking Good in the Garden
Garden
Last nights three quarters of an inch of rain (in about 20 minutes!), has certainly freshened things up and this morning as I walked around the garden I was reminded of just how wonderful some of the woody plants and shrubs can be at this time of year. Take for example our rather fabulous specimen…
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Planting our New Style Meadow
Flowering Perennials, Garden, Ornament Grasses
Even though we have not had significant rain for a little while and our gardens sandy soil is getting increasingly dry our team, consisting of myself, Luke our gardener, and a group of our Foundation volunteers successfully planted our New Meadow over 2 days on the 10th and 11th of July. Using the term ‘meadow’…
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Grasses for sunbaked and dry
Flowering Perennials, Garden, Ornament Grasses
There are so many grasses that are very happy in sunny open conditions in average to dry soils, but there are also those that revel in hot and dry conditions and that really do give of their best by way of foliage colour or flower when conditions are driest. They can thrive when other less…
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Two New Grasses; Cindy and Dark Desire
Garden, Ornament Grasses
Spring 2014 sees the launch of two more new grasses from Knoll Gardens as part of our ongoing selection programme to provide good ornamental grasses for British Gardens. We do not set out to ‘breed’ new grasses as such but rather prefer to wait for new plants to show themselves from our garden plants or…
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Fabulous Fountain Grasses
Garden, Info, Ornament Grasses
I am not quite sure when I first fell in love with the fountain grasses but there is something rather seductive about their fluffy often almost caterpillar like cylindrical rounded heads of flower that are so enthusiastically produced over the summer months that I find it impossible to resist their particular appeal. And I have…
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Grasses for Informal Garden Hedges
DIY, Garden, How to, Ornament Grasses
The value of ornamental grasses in our gardens is becoming well known, but their use as simple highly effective and rather beautiful informal hedges, or space dividers, might not be so obvious. Grasses happy combination of unique form and line can be used so easily to create tall or short internal screens or hedges that…
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Grasses for Dry Shade
Garden, Info, Ornament Grasses
Most people would agree (usually from experience!), that shade and especially dry shade is about the most difficult condition to plant successfully in our gardens. Of course there are many degrees of shade from the relatively minor shade cast by a north wall or fence to the deep shade cast by mature trees both broadleaf…
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The Show Must Go On……
Garden, Info
Even though the gardens themselves are currently closed (the nursery is very much open and busy), for the next week or two while the storm damage is made safe (see last weeks blog), this doesnt stop the annual pageant of trees and shrubs from providing their welcome displays. I have always loved woody plants and…
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Favourite Miscanthus for Garden Use
Garden, Info, Ornament Grasses
Miscanthus are a great group of ornamental grasses that can do brilliantly in our gardens giving lots of pleasure and requiring very little work in return. They are many of them and, inevitably, I have some favourites; those that stand out as being especially effective or useful. Miscanthus are really known for their fabulous displays of flower…
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