The Time Travelling Gardener
Monday, October 25, 2010
Lavender Is More Than a Romantic herb
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Harvesting lavender in Provence Lavender belongs to and heads an elite list of universally popular herbs including the mints, thymes, sa...
Friday, October 1, 2010
Vampires Prefer Red Roses
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October 1st launched my latest book 'Vampires: a BITE-sized history'. It is 240 pages long, a small but thick hardback designed by m...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Nibbling on Roses and Violets
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The delightful fragrance of flowers was traditionally captured in Provence by the perfumeries of France's perfume capital Grasse in...
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Monday, June 28, 2010
Flower Carpets
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True wild mother-of-thyme Thymus serpyllum growing at high altitude in Provence on Mont Ventoux No plant really enjoys being...
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Monday, June 21, 2010
The Medieval Rose Plantain
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The thrill of growing and holding ancient plants that gardeners for centuries before me have loved never leaves. Unlike other anti...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Living Willow Fences
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I I've been having a love affair with living fences for years. A few Floriade festivals ago in Holland, a magical two story house a...
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
The Single Roses
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Single roses appeared constantly among the seedlings rowed out for testing in rose breeding programs, and just as regularly they were discar...
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