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  • Looking to come back to my first love

    I am interested in going back to my horticulture after being in ministry for 5 years, I so miss my old trade. I am now 60, are there any full time jobs for someone like myself, with a load of experience in looking after large gardens ( my largest was 56 acres) I have served as an under gardener and also...
    Posted to The Horticulture Week forum (Forum) by John Goodway on 06-09-2010
  • Weird wide World Cup of hort

    See what I've done with the title there? Made it topical. The search engines are bound to pick it up. 1. Appropriately a South African one first, and next in our weird plants theme is the umbrella thorn tree ( Acacia tortilis ) - widespread (and wide-spreading) trees, but did you know they emit chemical...
    Posted to Planted Questions (Weblog) by Gavin McEwan on 06-08-2010
  • Medwyn Williams Wins Presidents Award

    I have trawled the internet today to find out all the information I can about Medwyns fantastic win but I can't find much. It has been a fantastic return to Chelsea for Medwyns of Anglsey winning an 11th gold medal and the Presidents award for best pavillion exhibit. The effort that the Williams...
    Posted to The Horticulture Week forum (Forum) by Iain Barbour on 05-25-2010
  • Growing oasis found in urban centre

    I heard this was the place to go. Culpeper Community Garden snuck between Islington office blocks near Angel tube station, north London. I found the entrance gate; a wrought-iron affair shrouded by shrubs, but giving away way to a succession of “good afternoons” from folk passing the first of over 30...
    Posted to Beneath the cloche (Weblog) by Philip Turvil on 03-29-2010
  • Re: RE: Potatoes

    You can see an image of the Sarpo's, including the new introductions, in a blogpost I wrote following the 2009 open day at the Sarvari Research Trust. To say they are in 'a different league', is spot on. Anyone interested in developing their gardening (or indeed their food growing business...
    Posted to The Horticulture Week forum (Forum) by John Walker on 02-08-2010
  • New M&S sprout good for GYOers

    Controversy this week. Marks & Spencer have smashed together two pillars of the vegetable community to launch a sprout/kale hybrid called ‘flower spout’, on sale Monday. The new vegetable (yes, a new vegetable) looks like a blown-open sprout, where once tight leaves now grow proudly into middle distance...
    Posted to Beneath the cloche (Weblog) by Philip Turvil on 01-24-2010
  • Celebrity earthworms: wildlife citizen science

    Earthworms have earned celebrity status of late. Big-budget marketing is encouraging the public to record the life and traumas of these usually low profile soil aerators. Yes, earthworms are in the spotlight in ‘citizen science’, but they’re not the only ones lined up for survey. Lots of similar schemes...
    Posted to Beneath the cloche (Weblog) by Philip Turvil on 12-07-2009
  • Re: What is a Garden Centre?

    - P.S. John... was that Greek tragedy kind of hubris or just the ordinary ? - A good question Melanie. You know, I think both kinds apply. In Greek mythology hubris manifested as excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. In a way, garden centres/the gardening industry, in many...
    Posted to The Horticulture Week forum (Forum) by John Walker on 10-13-2009
  • Has Horticulture aka Gardening knowledge/knowhow become the new 'must have' fashion accessory?

    Not only purchasing a garden and having it 'installed' over the weekend but also being seen in the media as enjoying it. Not only working a garden or allotment (Hey! Don’t I look cool in these wellies and it's so, so environmentally trendy) but changing ones career to embrace it. How many...
  • Re: Advice on new product launch

    Thanks for the advice offered we are busy exploring all the possibilities given on this forum, and have so far booked Stand H22 (3M X 2M), at www.gardenpressevent.co.uk looks like this will be a good platform to get our new product in the eyes of the press. Found this show listed on the www.gima.org...
    Posted to The Horticulture Week forum (Forum) by Nick Porter on 10-08-2009
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