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  How to mow and how to sow a meadow

  Jim Gardiner on 19 Aug 2009 at 02:26 PM

  What a beautiful day it is today. Glorious sun and blue sky, and Wisley looks fantastic. I think the sunflowers on the Trials Field would agree, maybe thinking they're in Tuscany... if sunflowers could think! We've flowers all over, and the Top Terrace bedding is really tall now, with the cosmos... Read More...

  Comments: 1 Tags: trials, seed sowing, Alpine, top terrace, arboretum, Wisley, garden, rose garden, summer, prairie, meadow, perennial, august, cut, woody, james hitchmough, mow, seeding, trials field, sow, witan, RHS, mulch, hay
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  Come see Wisley's wonderful Missouri meadow

  Jim Gardiner on 06 Jul 2009 at 11:52 AM

  It's truly summer now here at Wisley. In July the garden looks wonderful. We have our Armed Forces Day flag prominently positioned on the Conifer Lawn, and the sweet peas and dahlia bed (where the Subtropical Borders usually are) are flowering well. Day by day the self-sown annuals that form this... Read More...

  Comments: 6 Tags: glasshouse, Glasshouse landscape, summer, hitchmough, prairie, cornfield, dahlia, sweet pea, armed forces, missouri meadow, july