Cold Frames

Cold Frames Hall’s Jumbo mini Greenhouse placed on the terras of Viller the Garden. Photograph by Frank Fritschy 28 MARCH, 2016 Astronomy Life Society In February I started to sow annuals and some perennials. In order to grow them to healthy young plants I...

Forsythia

Forsythia 21 MARCH, 2017 Garden Tools Secateurs Shrubs Spring A  harbinger of spring and probably the most sold shrub at Garden centres at the end of the last century. At the same time, the Forsythia is the most maltreated shrub around. Don’t use hedge trimmers...

Gertrude Jekyll’s lost Garden

MY FAVOURITE BOOKS Gertrude Jekyll’s lost Garden BY FRANK FRITSCHY 16 February 2017 In 1908 Gertrude Jekyll designed the garden at the Manor House at Upton Grey. For a few decades, it was a fine example of Edwardian garden design. After the Second World War...

Presents

Presents 18 DECEMBER, 2016 Flower Bulbs Gardens Garden Books Garden Tools Although I intent to postpone bulb planting on a large scale till the next season, it was actually a gift of a box full of flower bulbs from our friend Stefan which changed my mind. The gift box...