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Top gardening tip: keep "ypericon" (St John's Wort) in your garden for optimal demon repelling.

From Tractatus de Herbis, a northern Italian manuscript made to help apothecaries and physicians identify useful ingredients. More here: https://t.co/Ivbn3tiXOk

How beautiful is the panorama of the garden on a lovely day in late spring? Credit as ever to the skilful Chris Wright for the photo 🍀☘️🌿🌱🌳📷🤌👏🏻

🪱To celebrate International Compost Awareness Week - here's our simple guide to composting from compost expert Rod Weston 🪱

🌱 When composting you need roughly equal proportions of layered Greens and Browns.
🌱 Materials will decompose more quickly if cut into short lengths or shredded.
🌱 Long handled shears makes it easy to cut the material without getting backache.
🌱 Grass clippings are best mixed with Browns - for example mix in woodchip together with the grass.
🌱 Turn the material in the top layers of the bin monthly for the first few months to let in air and avoid compaction.
🌱 Alternatively knock the bin over and then refill it.
🌱 Or - a technique used by many composters - fill the bin and let it get on with it!
What are your top composting tips?

Nature Notes for March 2024 Plants in flower Hyacinths Native primroses Bergenia Pulmonaria Hellebores Snake's head fritillaries Daffodils Anemone blanda Tulips Cowslips (starting to flower) Blossom starting to show on the old...

Tomatoes Hate Cucumbers: Secrets Of Companion Planting and Popular Planting Combinations 🍅🥒👇

Nature Notes for February 2024 Plants in flower Snowdrops Crocus tommasinianus ( The Tasting Garden ) Yellow crocuses ( The Tasting Garden ) Winter flowering honeysuckle (The Tasting Garden) Witch hazel (The Hollygon) Hazel...

Bradbourne Black Cherry Sculpture Having already created a pear, a plum and two apple sculptures, Alan Ward has turned his attention to a cherry. The Bradbourne Black cherry to be precise. ​ See below a series of photographs...

Gardening Work during January 2024 Despite many days of very cold, frosty or wet weather during January our gardening volunteers managed to undertake some work in the gardens.

Planting a garden into cardboard boxes is one of the best (and easiest no dig) methods we have found to garden yet... And next year just put new boxes on top of old boxes... it all eventually is compost. Fantastic method for areas with terrible soil of if you don't have a way to dig (or want to)...❤

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Hollyhock! An old fashioned favorite! 😍

Weekend Walk 1 – The Storey Gardens A brand new guide this week to The Storey Gardens at The Storey, Lancaster. Originally they were the private gardens of those living at No. 20 and neighbouring houses on Castle Park. No. 20 was a l…

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September Night Sky Guide (September 2023) The September night sky brings great opportunities for stargazing night sky stars, views of Saturn, and the Full Harvest Supermoon ...

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Linden (Tilia cordata) is in pre-flowering stage and I can't help myself, I'm eating one of the budded clusters, complete with its skateboard-like bract, daily. Did you know Linden is in the malvaceae, a family famous for its deliciously mucilage0laden edibility? And that this mucilage supplies soluble fibre that promotes gut health and of eventuality, immunity? Once in flower, it becomes a tea herb that helps lower blood pressure. Ah, the honeyed fragrance!

Do you have any maple trees near you? If so, you might have noticed them forming their seeds, called samaras. It is a papery winged sheath with a seed inside. Most of us have played with these helicopter-like seeds as children. But did you know that if you remove the outer covering, you can find an edible seed inside? When the seeds are young and green in the spring, they are known to be the most pleasant tasting. Some say they taste like peanuts. You can sprinkle them into a salad or stir fry, or mix them with mashed potatoes. Since different types of maples produce samara fruits at different times of the year in certain areas, seeds might be available for harvest and consumption for an extended period. The seeds can be eaten raw, roasted, or boiled if they seem bitter. Dried seeds can be ground into a flour. A general thought is-the larger the seed, the more bitter, the smaller the seed, the sweeter tasting. Maple seeds contain vitamins, with a high content of β-carotene. Or, you can just play with these little helicopters!