Lillie’s today

At home they paint the house so I picked my things and left for the archipelago

My things are packed, I’m ready to go

When I arrived it was so beautiful….

Obviously I know how to grow tomatoes, my advices on the issue are however not always the best

No Lillies today

When will they bloom???

The Lonicera caprifolium still bloom even though the fragrance is not like it was in the early summer

The butterfly and I both like the succulent

I believe this is the place for Anaphalis triplinervis

Begonia and pelargonium finally bloom

They have such a lovely red colour why I just let them be

I will try two ways to get the Volvo blue colour back. 10g E520 with the water at one shrub and conifer needles buried in the soil at the other

The azalea bloom again

Some like hard work, some can watch it for hours

To my successor

After this first week at school you may think that you know everything about gardening. During the remaining thirty nine weeks you will take part in a lot of activities to show the opposite

Times to measure

Pruning a cold winter day

Days when things go wrong and you need a plan b

Days in deep shit

It is sometimes constructive

There are days when you try to understand

Days when you grow

Weeks of placement, maybe in another country

Days when you learn that weed is fun

Days with Lasses horror movies, I liked the one with the sweet happy end

You can’t surf on a shrimp sandwich everyday, there are, however, days when you can

Days in the dark when you are completely lost

Some days you have fun

The day you sail out from school you hopefully got the insight that you have began to scratch on some gardening skills and there is so much more to learn.

You also have friends for life that like to take a beer with you.

A weekend in the beginning of August

The Grove, located in the South of England has everything you’d expect. With 300-acres of park and woodlands, an award-winning spa, world championship golf course, three restaurants, tennis and croquet.

The Grove’s history is rich and interesting. In its heyday, The Grove was the venue for country house parties for royalty and society’s elite, regular guests included Queen Victoria, Lord Palmerston and Edward VII

Since then, The Grove has had many varied uses, including a gardening school.
This beautiful sunken garden at Kensington Palace was planted first in 1908, transforming part of the gardens occupied by potting sheds into a garden of classical proportions. Today, the garden continues the tradition of rotational flower displays in the spring and summer. From April to October when the garden is looking its best these vibrant colors and exotic planting are on display .

As it was modeled on the Privy garden at Hampton Court Palace a style of gardening seen in the 18th century I had to see that as well.

So we went to Hampton Court and guess who we met -

Henry VIII (1509-47) he lived here 500 years ago, however, still walking around at the castle!!!

The very first Privy garden from Henry VIII’s day was the King’s private garden, and very few people would ever have gained admittance to it up until the 18th century. The newly reconstructed Privy Garden, from 1702, is one of the most accurately reconstructed gardens because so much was recorded about the original garden.

The 20th Century Garden at Hampton Court is a special place with contemporary style plantings with trees and shrubs in an informal setting that creates a place of peace away from the busier areas of the gardens

A private top floor garden

John Madejski has given the Victoria & Albert Museum £2 million to create the new garden, designed by Kim Wilkie, located at the heart of the Museum. The courtyard walls have been softened by plantings of blue hydrangeas as well as Salvia 'Enigma' and Dahlia 'David Howard'

I seems to me that they have the same problems as I have to keep all the hydrangeas Volvo blue.