Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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Without intense care no harvest. Normally at least a daily inspection with hands on is needed. Every few days a more accurate care and control to hand select / remove snails or remove larger weeds that might cover up the strawberry plants. The plant needs lots of hot sunshine during the period between blossom and strawberry harvest.
Small weeds and grass actually would be beneficial to have between the plants. Most farmers lack to courage to let all the small weeds and grass survive. As you can see on most of the pictures here, the fields are usually completely cleaned up from all other growth.
Here in Trinidad most strawberry fields are sprayed regularly, weekly or more often with chemicals - fungicide and pesticide or as seen here, the toxic chemicals are added to the flooding water used for irrigation once or several times a week.
In true mixed culture as common at home in private garden, there is absolutely NO need for any chemicals of any kind nor for any fertilizer! Strawberries are rugged plants and survive / prosper easily all year if planted amidst all other flowers and plants of your organic garden. Just see how nature does it - wild strawberries grow in wild grass and forest without any chemicals or fertilizer.
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This beautiful red exotic flower is actually an accumulation of many very tiny blossoms forming this approx 7 cm long flower.
Bottlebrush - Callistemon citrinus.
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The poppy bloomed, but it was so heavy it broke the stem ... I had to prop it up to take photos :(
Show gardens at flower shows are always very subjective, the judges are looking for one thing, the gardening press another, and very often the public are just looking for something they can recreate in their own garden. All too often they don't agree on which should be the winner. beardshaw_300x150.jpg At Tatton Chris Beardshaw's garden, 'Cheshire's Year of Gardens 08', pleased all three and it's easy to see why it was awarded the Best in Show title. Recreating a classic english country house garden with bold herbaceous borders on both sides was a sure fire winner. I loved the predominantly pastel planting and highlights of gold added by the Catalpa at the end. I'm told there are subtle elements from at least 12 Cheshire gardens incorporated into the design, including the famous double borders at Arley Hall. If you're visiting the show and you know your Cheshire gardens see if you can spot them. east_west_300x150.jpg According to my colleague Louise I have 'Boy tastes'when it comes to gardens and some of the other designs i liked typified this. The 'East Meets West' garden (Gold) was created by combining the traditional elements of a relaxing Japanese Zen garden with a contemporary seating area and blocky water feature. adlington_300x150.jpg Angular water features were in evidence in several other gardens i liked, including the 'Adlington Relax and Reflect Garden'(Silver-Gilt), with white walls, red containers and interesting grassy planing scheme and 'Always There' (Silver-Gilt) a garden created to promote the work of the Samaritans. This was just my cup of tea, with green the predominant colour and plants chosen to complement perfectly the stonework and rusted steel used within the design. samaritan_300x150.jpg The judges awarded just two gold medals and four silver gilt at Tatton this year and I'd completely agree with their decision. A number of gardens featured heavy stonework waterfalls including 'Go with the Flow' (Silver), My Little Piece of the Lakes (Bronze) and Natural Distinction (Silver-gilt) and I think all of them could have done with a bit more planting to soften the hard landscaping. brett_300x150.jpg Elsewhere 'Real Life by Brett' (Silver-gilt) brought the traditional northern back garden into the 21st century and was definitely drawing interest from the crowds. 'Hot Dry Days' (Bronze) took a more Mediterranean approach and showed how we can adapt our gardens to the changing climate. Who knows, if the weather continues to be as hot and sunny here as it has been this week maybe bananas will soon catch on in Manchester?
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When showing and take a while look to this photo, then one name comes up, peacock !!!, yes you right :) except this fanlike with yellow colour. Actually a little flower, but when take to macro mode, it's becomes more fun, and showing totally different.


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Runner provide valuable young strawberry plants. A mother plant usually lasts a few years, depending on the exact strawberry variety. The after a few years the plant may produce smaller harvest and plants then are replaced.
Strawberry plant runners are a free source to rejuvenate your own strawberry garden.
however each plant produces each year many young plants by means of runners. Hence those beautiful small strawberry plants are an ideal gift among neighbors and friends. Select the best and most tasty strawberries in your neighborhood and ask in advance for young plants for your own garden.
As long as the runner is attached to the motherplant there is no special care needed for the young plants. The young plants start to grow leaves and small roots and during the course of a few months the plant grows to a half size plant with several leaves and stronger roots. Now it is time to cut the runner and place the young strawberry plants to the final new place for next season.
a single mother plant can produce approximately a dozen small plants.
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Black roses and hail mary flowers








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Pink tulips, Ottawa Tulip Festival

The poppy bloomed, but it was so heavy it broke the stem ... I had to prop it up to take photos :(

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We got a silver-gilt medal which we are very pleased with, we're really pleased because it's our first Tatton. The judges did say that they'd like us to do a larger stand and that our plants would really suit a larger exhibit. One of the reasons why we create a display of this size is because it fills one lorry! We never know how the plants will go down when we come to a new show and especially one in a different climatic area, but so far so good. Next week we're going to the Taunton flower show where we're exhibiting our own plants and planting a garden, then Rob and I are off for three days to an undisclosed, secret location to reflect on the last few months and plan for the year ahead.

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Filming the 10th anniversary show at Tatton Park has been a real treat for the team. Huge crowds turned up for the filming of our closing piece to camera featuring Joe Swift, Carol Klein and Rachel de Thame. It only took 18 takes for our esteemed talent to trip the light fantastic up Chris Beardsaw's garden and sample some '10th anniversary Tatton' cupcakes which were given out to all children under 15 who visited the show. Remember, kids go free! 'Have a go Joe' had a go at making a 'lunkie' also known as a 'smoot'. The crowds loved his attempt at thatching. He was offered a stick in the rural crafts marquee but as he quipped, he's hopefully not going to need that for sometime yet! Joe also went all artistic as he turned his hand to willow sculpting when he made two ears for a hare. Carol was at home in the floral marquee where of course she used to be an exhibitor. She was amazed by the high standard of the plants, in fact she's convinced that this year was the highest standard she's ever seen. Her highlights were the Hampshire carnivorous plants and Southfields nursery stands both of which won gold medals. Carol was also a bit partial to the perennials in the marquee which were fabulous this year due to the weather conditions having been particularly good in helping them get to peak performance at the right time. Rachel's enjoyed a blooming good time in the BFA marquee where eight of Britain's top florists competed for the title of 'Florist of the year'. She was on the sidelines as the competitors had to complete a surprise challenge, they had to create a floral masterpiece with a random selection of blooms, bits and bobs.
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