Gardening

When the weather is too glorious to crochet or knit, I love to do the gardening (predictable aren't I?!) I find it extremely rewarding, but I can't claim to find mowing the lawn or digging the borders relaxing.

I love colourful borders, and my aim is to fill our borders with a mass of flowers for as much of the year as possible. I find perennials are easiest to work with, but I'm starting to use more annuals now as fillers. I have started an online gallery of my garden, which I will add to as the seasons bring their changes.

Garden Gallery 1997.
Garden Gallery 1998.
Subsequent Garden Galleries to date missing due to having our babies!

Links..

Specific Societies and Pages..

• American Fern Society
• British Clematis Society
• Coldframes and Hotbeds
• Compost Resource Page
• rec.gardens.roses FAQ
• Rippingale Wisteria FAQ
• The Cottage Garden Society

Search Engines..

• Carnivorous Plant Database
• SierraHome Gardening - Plant Encyclopedia
• HomeArts: Florabundance
• PlantFacts
• Search the OSU Online Image Database
• The Time Life Complete Gardener Encyclopedia Search Page
• WebGarden

Mail Order..

• Argos Free Delivery On All Online Orders Over £125
• B and T World Seeds
• Bali-Hai Mail Order Nursery - specialise in Hostas and other cottage garden Perennials selling worldwide
• Crocus.co.uk - UK mail order for plants, flowers, and gifts

• Direct Garden Supplies - UK mail order

• eBay.co.uk
• First Flowers Direct of Covent Garden

• For all your gardening needs, visit BBC Shop.com
• Johnny's Selected Seeds Home Page
• Seedman Exotic Plant and Garden Seed Catalog
• Shoppers Universe - Garden & DIY

• Total Flower Exports Pty Ltd
• Yellow Flag Wild Flowers - UK mail order for native British wild flowers

Articles..

• An English Country Garden
• British Gardening Online
• Cornucopia!
• Directory of /pub/academic/agriculture
• Doctor Greenfingers

• Expert Gardener - with Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock

• GardenNet
• Garden.com
• Garden Gate
• Gardenworld - UK Garden Centres
• Gardening Launch Pad
• HomeArts: Bloom!
• Master Gardener information
• Museum of Garden History Home Page
• MY GARDEN
• Organic-uk - UK organic gardening
• PlantCare 2000
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• UKEXNET Horticultural Index
• Virtual Garden

E-mail me at steph@stephthornton.co.uk

Author : Steph Thornton.
Last modified on : 7 January, 2004