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Garden Diary:
Click the months above for our garden diary with tips, tricks and techniques and jobs to do in the garden each month plus lots of photos from our our garden. |
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| Nature in the garden: Click the links to find out more about: Bumblebees Butterflies in the garden | |||||||||||
| Growing Guides: We have a growing range of free guides to help you get more from your garden all based on what works for us in our garden. Read, print or download | |||||||||||
 About
our garden:
We garden in South Cheshire in the small village of Hankelow. Our garden reflects our passion for herbaceous perennials and we try to use them in varied ways - sometimes formal and colour themed, and at other times free-flowing, informal and innovative. Our aim is to be able to trial plants in a real garden setting so that we can offer advice from experience and provide a true assessment of the merits and demerits of a plant. Hankelow is about 60m above sea level at the edge of Cheshire plain. We have a plot of about a third of an acre. About half of it is given over to garden, the remainder is for our nursery stock beds. The house and garden were new in 2000. In 2010 we are continuing to develop and change the gardens. This year's project is to replant our display beds in a more "designed" style. Our soil is a good grey-black silt overlying sand and gravel, richly peppered with builders rubble in places. Generally it is just on the acid side of neutral. We have had to break up a compacted layer about 2ft below the surface and now the soil is free draining, easy to work but holds little moisture or nutrients. Because of its recent past as a piece of neglected grazing land, the soil is full of weed seed that germinates every time the soil is disturbed. For those of you who don't know Cheshire we have a climate that fits into hardiness zone 8 with occasional mild winters nearer to zone 9 (and this year 2009/10 more like zone 7). We have plenty of rain, and strong winds thanks to our openness to the west. |
Garden
Open Days 2010:
Our garden is open for the NGS 12pm - 5pm on:
National Collection of Helenium open days
* Come early on the 20th June and see over 250 historic vehicles assemble on the village green before leaving to parade in the Audlem Festival of Transport at about 12pm. Further details from the Audlem Special Events Website by clicking here. If you want to avoid the parade leaving Hankelow, delay your visit until 1pm or after. Group visits welcome at other times by appointment |
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