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yummersetter
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 3241 Location: Somerset
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 10 9:44 am Post subject: |
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Can I get back to you on that I keep changing my mind.
One blue honeysuckle on order, more from seed I guess, Myrtus Ugni and a collapsing pawpaw planted a few months back. There are a lot of amancheliers already in the white garden, I think they get raided by the blackbirds as an energy boost on their way to the strawberries as I see them set fruit and then they're gone when I think to look again. I've ordered shallon, that tastes lovely, but the soil here may not be acid enough.
One rainy evening I'll sit down with the Chiltern seeds catalogue and see what's on offer there.
Eleagnus is a bit over-happy here - I planted an ebbingei a few years ago, for its perfume in October and we cut it down as it had got to 5 metres cubed and we couldn't get to the shed, In six years it never flowered or fruited and it was a huge mound of darkness. Goumi would be perfect but I'd need to source or future order from ART.
I was sent a species 'stocktake' list of plants growing in the Forest Garden at Dartington, (not the sales nursery) there are 242 eleagnus plants there That would smother our entire village, I reckon, if planted here. And 1030 duchesnea indica last year; that'll be 5,000 by now, I guess. I wonder who counts them? |
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cassy
Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 1047 Location: South West Scotland
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Blue Peter
Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 2400 Location: Milton Keynes
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cassy
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Truffle
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yummersetter
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 3241 Location: Somerset
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cassy
Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 1047 Location: South West Scotland
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cassy
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yummersetter
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 3241 Location: Somerset
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 10 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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yes, about two weeks ago, I'm still dizzy with information and learning, and MC is right up there in my pantheon of Heroes. I'm fantasising about living in that tent in the Forest Garden, just want to know more and more in depth about it and to see it through the seasons.
I've never been in any educational setting where so much effort was put into instilling knowledge, in many dimensions. We were given information booklets with massive and thorough reference lists, hours of classic 'lectures' , three trips round the forest garden to see examples of what had just been explained, design exercises, lunches including loads of Forest Garden produce and tours of the trial grounds and nursery area. And we even saw the inside of the Toolshed. And Martin answered a thousand questions - mainly 'What's that plant and why?' All the course members were very keen and enthusiastic too, I hope we all carry it through into our future plans |
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Truffle
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yummersetter
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 3241 Location: Somerset
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cassy
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Truffle
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yummersetter
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Res
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