Kari's Garden article links

Four gardens - London - some thoughts on daffodils and the early enthusiasms of the newly plantaholic........
Updated: article on Old English Tulips
[January 14th 2002 updated March 2003]

Monthly diary entries 2002 - 2008 - look back month by month over the years, weather, plants in flower, seasonal arrivals and departures.
Garrigue - SW France in the Spring, orchids in abundance, bulbs and loads of other flowering things! [April 2008]
Umbellifers - not so very 'umble at all [September 2007]
Ferns are boring ......? No they aren't - right plant, right place. [April 2007]
Taste and generally how to avoid it - Dahlias - no, not a hate filled rant ............... [March 2007]
Gardening with gravel - got a dry west or south facing garden? [Bristol Magazine September 2005 updated June 2006]
Small trees for small gardens - if you have a small garden think carefully before you choose a new tree. [Bristol Magazine updated December 2005]
An appreciation of The Bath Botanic Gardens - well worth a visit if you come to Bath. [Bath Magazine May 2005 updated June 2006]
Lets celebrate with flowers - themed plants for anniversaries, weddings and birthdays. [Bath Magazine February 2005]
Going to seed - why you should grow something from seed. [Bath Magazine January 2005]
Christmas evergreens - some practical information on growing holly, ivy and mistletoe plus a bit of folklore too. [Bath Magazine December 2004]
A little forward planning - autumn is the time for planning a succession of bulbs. Cheer those late winter days as we wait impatiently for the full rush of Spring. [Bath Magazine September 2004]
Prickly, spiky and fly eating plants - get your little horrors interested in plants! [Bath Magazine July 2004]
Fluffy and girly June - celebrating pastels and romantic flowers - iris, roses and peonies. [Bath Magazine June 2004]
Pitch out the pastels - hot colours using tender perennials and vibrant annuals. [Bath Magazine May 2004]
Attracting bees, butterflies and other pollinators into the garden - nectar and foodplants [ April 2004 updated June 2006]
The first flower of Spring - primroses, cowslips and auriculas [Bath Magazine April 2004]
Grow your own greens! - get out there and plant some veg, there's nothing like growing your own! [Bath Magazine March 2004]
The best laid plans? - this is the story of my exhausting experience of trying to design a garden for a competition. I am not a garden designer and I haven't even done as much as a correspondence course in the discipline. Share my frustrations at trying to design a garden from scratch on paper. It was hard, very hard. [February 2004]
End of year thoughts - it is the time of year to ponder awhile and collect my thoughts as we draw closer to the shortest day and the turning of the old year. A garden often comprises 'rememberences of things past' and reminds us of our parents, grandparents, relatives and friends. [December 2003]
Annual frenzy or what not to grow - in a new garden it is tempting to cram it with as many plants as possible. I am beginning to regret some of my planting decisions as my small town garden becomes enveloped in rampant shrubs and climbers. [October 2003]
Ina's Auricula page - Ina is an Auricula enthusiast who lives in the Netherlands this page features a small selection from her collection. [May 2003 updated May 2005 February 2007]
'Escential' scented plants - another eclectic ragbag of scented plants and trees to complement the first article, and I haven't finished yet! Includes azara, pinks, roses and moonflowers. [August 2003]
Tulipaner - some tulip history and cultivation links especially for older cultivars including Old English Tulips. Photographs include a number kindly lent to me by Mr James Akers of the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society. [Updated Jan 2006 January 2003 updated February 2007]
Come on you Aussies! - to get me through the dreary late winter days in the UK I dream of mimosas, or more properly acacias. A fleeting breath of summer to come. Includes some ideas on species to try and growing from seed. [December 2002 Updated February 2007]
Contained gardening - someone asked me recently what I would recommend for container growing in London. One of the best reasons to grow in containers is that you can cheat! Moving plants in containers around means you can have instant scent, colour, foliage, in favourite sitting places throughout the year, and create a new drama when you get bored with a scene. [November 2002]
Scentstory - a correspondent emailed me asking about plants for a garden that they were planning that could provide enough scent to ambush and stop you in your tracks both during the day and into the evening. So here is a start on some ambush or evocative scents [September 2002]
Anyone for pink in the red border? - to colour theme or not to colour theme? "Provided one does not run the idea to death, and provided one has enough room, it is interesting to make a one-colour garden. Vita Sackville-West writing about The White Garden. [June 2002 updated June 2006]
Snooty Fox, Queen Bee and Gizabroon makes three! - a bit about the history of the Auricula and some featured cultivars. Including pictures of many of Ina's collection. [April 2002 updated 2005 Updated 2007]
Digging that first hole in the ground - digging the first hole in your new garden can be daunting. In my first proper garden on the edge of a North facing escarpment in Wiltshire I was faced with a 200ft long X 30ft wide 'meadow' which had one apple tree [cooking], one Sumach tree [with associated suckers] and a beat-up shed. [March 2002]
Mistakes - Bath woodland bed - it has to be said I am not happy with my 'woodland' bed, it is just not working. The bed is only 12 ft long by 6 ft at it's widest point. It is not an enviable site, it receives no direct sunlight at all for nearly 6 months of the year. One side is bordered by a large Bath stone wall and it faces North and the slugs and snails love it! [February 2002 updated April 2007]
Love - hate relationships - I don't suppose I am the only gardener who has a hate relationship [or to be milder], a disliking, for certain plants. Camellias are shrubs that have vehement lovers and haters. In the gardening press recently a number of writers have emphatically come out against them. So why does the camellia incite such feelings? [February 2002 updated January 2004 updated March 2007]
Weeds and wild things - when is a weed not a weed? Some native weeds and their cultivars from meadows, woods and wastes. Includes a couple of the terrestrial orchids found in the UK and wild favourites such as wood anenomes, violets and primroses. [January 2002 updated March 2003]
Four gardens - London - some thoughts on daffodils and the early enthusiasms of the newly plantaholic........ Updated: article on Old English Tulips [January 14th 2002 updated March 2003]
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