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A glimpse of what the garden looked like 10 years ago!
Chelsea
Flower Show
2004 / Chelsea
2005 / Chelsea
2007
Screen saver which gives a selection of some of the best of 'My Garden'.
Report on a tally of plants flowering on 1st Jan. 2006
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Gardening Books (updated May 2009)
Same site on mygarden.ws
May 19, 2009
Home Page - 'My Garden' - a personal gardening site.
My Garden represents a wide range of rare and unusual plants in a small private garden in Wales, UK, with an emphasis on wildlife and * biodiversity. Hopefully this site acts as a pictorial diary over the seasons and over the coming years of what is growing and flowering, starting with April 2003 and continuing........ You will hopefully be surprised at what you will find on this site and will act as an useful resource of information on a wide range of gardening topics, some quite controversial such as the consequences of the Rio Convention on the future of our gardens! Enjoy!
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In 'My Garden', there is a wide range of perennials, bulbs, ferns, shrubs and trees - many of them are very unusual, some are just beautiful garden plants. Perhaps the best description of this garden is that, it is more by accident, a natural, perhaps "wild" garden - a sympathetic marring of the exotic with native species hopefully increasing biodiversity and habitats for wildlife in the local area. It is situated somewhere in North Wales in the United Kingdom. The garden is only quarter of an acre, but part of it is on a steep slope facing south. The sea is just half a mile away. The climate is reasonably mild, on the USDA hardiness zone system (European hardiness zone system z9) this area would be classified as z9 - winter temperatures min. -7° to - 9°C , at worst z8 - winter temperatures min - 12° to -7°C (see page on frost damage). The soil ranges from a woodland loam with an acidic pH of around 5.5-6.0 and on the lower areas there is soil derived from glacial drift with patches of clay in the damper areas. Here the pH varies from 6.0-6.5, almost neutral.
Hopefully
biodiversity will be gradually increased by careful management,
interplanting native species with garden species which will
hopefully co-exist in harmony. Both polecats and badgers are
regular visitors. Woodpeckers, bats and jays are resident,
overhead the buzzard is often seen and nests nearby. An apiary
of two bee hives are well established and a diary of
their development is being kept. |
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Euphorbia
griffithii 'Fireglow' |
Rhododendron
trichostomum |
Fuchsia
magellanica 'Riccartonii' |
Rhododendron
yakushimanum FCC
form |
Rhododendron
oreotrephes |
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This garden is now
open (2008) to the public for charity by appointment through the 'Yellow
Book', the NGS |
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'In
my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden
of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The
thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams as
beautiful.'
- Abram l. Urban. |
*Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has given kind permission for this link to be used and can be seen on the web page entitled Action Now for Life on Earth: A Video.
