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| Links: We hope you find these sites useful. Please note we are not responsible for these websites | |
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| Plant
Hunters Fairs:
We are part of a network of gardens and nurseries working together to put on great plant fairs at great locations. |
www.planthuntersfairs.co.uk |
| The
Dorothy Clive Garden:
A lovely garden set on the borders of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire. Great all through its season . Some of the best summer borders we have ever seen, plus spring Rhododendrons and Azaleas, and autumn colours. Run by the Willoughbridge Garden Trust. The garden hosts two Plant Hunters Fairs annually |
www.dorothyclivegarden.co.uk |
| Hartmut
Rieger's Heleniums and Phlox
Beautiful pictures of Heleniums and Phlox both in close up and in a glorious garden setting can be found on Hartmut Rieger's wonderful website. |
www.helenium-phlox.de |
| Charlotte Chamitoff's Day Lily Diary. Lots and lots of information and interest. Our garden will be feature in the "Garden of the Week" section during winter 09 - 10 | http://www.daylilydiary.com/ |
| The
Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT):
We love watching bees of all kinds in our garden. The BBCT website has lots of info about these useful insects The Natural History Museum website has a easy to use bumblebee identification charts. |
http://www.bumblebeeconservation.org.uk/
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| Butterfly Conservation | http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/ |
| The
International Phlox Exhibition "Mir Floksov",
Saint-Petersburg
Lots of interesting and new (to me anyway) varieties of Phlox as exhibited at Mir Floksov |
http://mirfloksov.narod.ru/acollections.htm |
| Nature's Raincoats is a website about research into "superhydrophobic" surfaces of plants and insects - surfaces that don't wet and where water forms droplets. The purpose is to create new materials for many applications. Our son is involved in this research at Oxford University. | Natures Raincoats |
| Persicaria Collection (Belgium). Thanks to Frans and Franny for directing us to this website all about Persicaria from the Belgian collector Chris Ghyselen. | www.persicaria.be |
| Dictionary of Botanical Epithets. Ever wondered what the scientific names of plants mean? This searchable dictionary has lots of definitions. I am indebted to Chuck Griffith's website for a lot of the definitions used on our website. | http://www.winternet.com/~chuckg/dictionary.html |
| The Cottage Garden Society: We are members of this friendly society and benefit from their quarterly magazine and annual seed distribution with lots of unusual plants to try. The Cheshire group, who meet at Sandbach, are really friendly and welcoming - do join them if you live in the area. | www.thecgs.org.uk |
| Hankelow
Village
Find out more about our home village of Hankelow |
www.hankelow.net |
| Plant
Heritage (NCCPG):
We hold the National Plant Collection of Helenium Cultivars. The Plant Heritage website has information about collections and their open days as well as a lot of useful botanic information for serious plant collectors. Martin is also County Collections Co-ordinator for Cheshire so if you live in Cheshire and are interested in having a collection please contact him |
www.nccpg.com |
| The
Hardy Plant Society:
A national society dedicated to our passion - hardy plants. Members benefit from the annual seed distribution and the twice yearly journal "The Hardy Plant". |
www.hardy-plant.org.uk |
| The British Hemerocallis and Hosta Society | www.hostahem.org.uk |
| Renewable
energy solutions
Advantage Projects Ltd is based in our home village - find out more about how they can help you benefit from renewable energy technology. |
www.advantageprojects.ltd.uk |