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Information & Reference

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  • Recipes - or, What to Do With Your Produce. . .
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In the Garden. . .

  • Gardening Poetry
  • Who discovered 100’s of azaleas, the Regal Lily, Clematis Montana, Sambucus and Acers?
  • Who discovered Lupins?
  • What's new at Chelsea Flower Show 2009?
  • What's new at Hampton Court Flower Show?

Gardening Poetry

  • 'A Bed of Forget-me-nots' - Christina Rossetti (1856)
  • 'Snakeshead Fritillaries' - Anne Ridler (1994)
  • 'The Bluebell' - Emily Brontë (1850)
  • 'To Daffodills' - Robert Herrick (1648)
  • 'Sonnet. To the Poppy' - Anna Seward (1789)
  • 'Rose' - Ian Hamilton (1987)
  • 'Ah! Sun-flower' - William Blake (1794)
  • 'Ipomoea' - Louise Glück (1992)

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