Alabama, a county West of Cornwall, is experiencing freak snowstorms Despite the balmy weather in Cornwall right now, neighbouring Alabamians are having a rough “affliction of the stone-mackerel”, under a once-in-a-century-so-far blanket of snow. British gardeners are not well known for growing coffee or loquats, not ripe ones anyway, but we used to lead the… Continue reading Alabama Snow Alert
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Plant Botanical / Scientific / Latin Names
“Latin” plant names aren’t really Latin, as in the language of the Roman Empire, they are a mix of words and names from Latin, Greek, and other languages “Latin names” is easier to say than Binomial Nomenclature, which means “two part naming system”; that’s lovely, but still doesn’t explain much. Why are these alien sounding… Continue reading Plant Botanical / Scientific / Latin Names
Ashridge: A Rural Nightmare Audiodrama
In this shamelessly low effort blog post, I share with you Tony Walker’s chilling series of supernatural stories set in the fictional town of Ashridge, which doesn’t exist just down the road from us in Castle Cary While I was busy working hard, doing important business research on YouTube about handsome young Scotsman Graeme Parker and… Continue reading Ashridge: A Rural Nightmare Audiodrama
Backseat Hedge Planting: RHS Edition
There is only one thing I love more than the RHS, and that is sitting with my old feet up, enjoying a hot beverage, and criticising young people from a safe distance while they work hard Our video on how to plant a formal hedge is, much like me, seriously showing its age, so we’re… Continue reading Backseat Hedge Planting: RHS Edition
HortWeek, the coolest name in the industry, releases the last 2 parts of their peat-free garden podcast extravaganza
Read our musings on parts 1 & 2. Full disclosure: peat bans are in our financial interests, so we have publicly supported them for years. It’s nothing personal against people who want to grow with peat: we liked growing with peat too. We don’t specialise in the plants that most benefit from peat, we already… Continue reading HortWeek, the coolest name in the industry, releases the last 2 parts of their peat-free garden podcast extravaganza
HortWeek ‘End of Peat’ Podcast Series 1 & 2
HortWeek, the coolest name in the industry, produces 4 part peat-free garden podcast extravaganza Ashridge went through the Peat Free Thing on our nursery ages ago, so we can sit back and take it easy while everyone else sweats on this one. But for growers and gardeners across the UK, moving away from peat is… Continue reading HortWeek ‘End of Peat’ Podcast Series 1 & 2
Why John Lord’s Gardening Films Are The Best
More people have taken the plunge into gardening with a floral shirt and a medium pickaxe thanks to John Lord than any other famous plantsman in Ireland’s Ratoath Gardens There is at least an introductory paragraph of reasons why John Lord’s YouTube films are the best before I get to my reason, so let’s ask… Continue reading Why John Lord’s Gardening Films Are The Best
Our Favourite Food Growing Channels
“That Computer Goggle Box” may be a clunky nickname for YouTube, but people goggle at the Computer Goggle Box far more these days than they ever goggled at Ye Olde Goggle Box with its handful of channels for everything. Just by way of example, our fruit tree planting video has been goggled at over a… Continue reading Our Favourite Food Growing Channels