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The National Trust looks after hundreds of gardens, so it’s not surprising that we’ve got loads of enthusiastic gardeners and exciting projects going on that we want to share.
Our contributors:
- Emily Utgren: Emily works in the magnificent Stourhead gardens in Wiltshire. She has just finished working her way through the garden cataloguing, GPS-mapping and taking pictures all of the different plants growing in the garden as part of our Plant Collections project. Now she’s back working full time in the garden where she belongs!
- Qaggardeners: These are a team of enthusiastic amateurs who work in our London office, backing on to St James’ Park. This year the office’s back garden has been turned into a vegetable plot. The team talk about learning to grow your own in a very urban setting…
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Who is/are greenfingers09? Anybody who can pull up a weed and knows it’s not the prize dahlia?
Ah, I’m the admin! Hopefully I do know the difference between a dahlia and a dandelion, but I’m no expert
Hi admin! I’ve actually been to Stourhead – great place. When/where can I see the plant collection? On-line I mean …
Hi Marianne!
I’m glad you like the garden! Stourhead’s plant collection won’t be online until I’ve finished GPS mapping, which adds positional data to each individual in the collection. This will be completed by September 2010. But there may well be other collections that are online before Stourhead.
The URL is http://plantcollections.pathf.com/
Thanks for your interest in the plant collection, Emily.
Just to say how much we enjoyed your talk this afternoon, the nearest we come to your subject apart from enjoying gardens, is that we are hosting a talk by Kevin McCloud in July; he has hung up his broadcasting boots for a while whilst being involved in a green project of sustainable housing and gardens on a large site in Swindon.
It was great to see such a good turn-out, a sign of a thriving community full of enthusiasm and hunger for learning. Well done for booking Kevin McCloud, a good speaker I think! See you in the garden, Em.
Our friends always like us to take them to Stourhead whenever they visit which we are happy to oblige as we love it so. However, on speaking with him this evening he says he thought he had heared Stourhead was being closed, I said I couldn’t believe this would ever happen. Can you let me know what is going on?
As you say, Stourhead would never close to the public, weather permitting… Quite the reverse actually, the Hoare family have always encouraged visitors into the garden. Has he by any chance got Stourhead mixed up with Leonardslee Gardens in East Sussex, also a fine landscape with amazing Rhododendrons? Hope I’ve set your mind at rest! Thanks, Em.