19 July 2025
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Jane and I visited the RHS Flower show at Wentworth House in South Yorkshire today. Given the knocks and dents, I’m guessing the tubas in this display were probably past their best playing days although, with the valves and springs … Continue reading
31 August 2024
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In this month’s edition of The Garden (the RHS members’ magazine), the featured site for the East Midlands was a place called Hill Close Gardens in Warwick. It isn’t quite on our doorstep but not too far away and so … Continue reading
31 August 2022
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Today, Jane and I took a trip to Thornbridge Hall, which is not far away from Bakewell in Derbyshire. As RHS members we can get in free mid-week so, although not quite on our doorstep, we felt it was worth … Continue reading
6 August 2022
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Earlier this week, we took a trip to Elton Hall, near Peterborough. It has a decent little garden with free entry for RHS members on Wednesdays and Thursdays although, candidly, it probably isn’t worth the journey for a repeat visit … Continue reading
22 April 2022
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We got back yesterday from our post-Easter city break in Manchester. Manchester is the largest English city that neither of us had previously visited and had more than enough to keep us occupied. We travelled up on Monday afternoon, stopping … Continue reading
13 January 2022
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Hurray! My packet of seeds from the RHS Seeds for Members scheme arrived today. I put in the order as soon as the list went up (I think that was the start of November) but haven’t given it a lot … Continue reading
2 November 2021
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One of the perks of RHS membership, that I haven’t used often, is the annual batch of seeds that can be had for a low price – presently 15 packets for £10, including delivery. Some of these are fairly common … Continue reading
27 July 2021
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I have had a letter published in the RHS magazine, The Garden, before. In that case, it was singing the praise of some trees on the north Oxford bypass that one of its columnists had been a bit sniffy about. … Continue reading
18 June 2021
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This morning, we took a trip to nearby Whatton House to visit their gardens. Unfortunately they aren’t an RHS partner garden so we had to pay for admission but the place is not far beyond the first village north of … Continue reading
13 June 2020
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This morning, Jane and I took a trip over to one of our nearest RHS Partner Gardens. Harlow Carr is now our nearest full garden and that’s a hundred miles off. However, Bluebell Arboretum in South Derbyshire is about a … Continue reading