She had been under medical therapies for Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and mild asthma for years. There was no history of trauma, chronic irritation or insect bite. Every night when i got home from work in the winter i would pore over seed & bulb catalogues, working out colour schemes and flowering times.A 76 years old female visited our department with a 1-month history of a painless, gradually enlarging mass on the left ear. I would spend ages choosing plants and bulbs to create displays throughout the year and as we were on a tight budget most would be grown from seed. In my section the VK i was lucky enough to have a fabulous Alitex glasshouse, such luxury! It had Coldframes, Thermal shading, lighting, venting on the roof and on the sides, its own rain collection system and if that ever ran low mains water, beds to grow in and my pride and joy a show bench.
People i adore! I learnt SO much! From the time i joined them in 2005 as a contractor to grow the plants for Chelsea and help with the 'Set up', then assisting in the gardens after, to the point where i left them in 2010 to spread my wings, every day, literally every day, i learnt something new!
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I have never before or since been such complete autonomy in a garden, i planned what was grown where and when, i was given total free rein to look after my section exactly as i saw fit and i loved it! I'll talk more about Ryton at a later date but i suffice to say i made lifelong friends there.
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I'm not even sure which nursery she came from, or which fair anymore but the obsession became full blown when in 2007 i started working at Ryton Organic Gardens and was given the Vegetable Kingdom, as it was known then, to look after. On Friday i spoke to one of the Sissinghurst Gardeners, Josh on Twitter, he asked if id be joining them for Great Dixters upcoming spring plant fair 2016, we met up last year which was truly lovely as i hadn't seen most of them since the previous July and i got to see Lex, my old HG, & Jackie too who were helping out on the the walled nursery stall.īoth Helen and I have a bit of a thing for auriculas (is it possible to have a BIT of a thing for them? ) and spent quite some time drooling along with Josh. In my previous blog i touched on these beauties, gave you just one pic to tease you, truth be told i could wax lyrical about these little iced gems of the plant world for hours! Nope! That's perfectly acceptable, if you're a bit obsessional about auriculas. To have black labels with the neatest white written script naming them so you can think of them as little plant people. They beseech you to place them in a black backed "theatre" so you can admire them at their best. How could i choose just one? They're not meant to be grown in ones or twos, they beg to be grown 20 or 30 different varieties! They ask politely to be installed in dainty terracotta pots with horticultural grit spread lovingly around their base. One day i was just looking at pictures of them, the next i was thinking about which one id like. I'm not sure of the exact moment it happened, it kind of crept up on me when i wasn't looking.
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