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One of our Plants named after Joseph Hooker 

30/9/2016

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  • Sarcococca Hookeriana can be found all over our town - in the Memorial garden where there are over 40 plants named after Joseph Hooker; in the planters outside Hooker House and in the planters and beds around the town. They are particularly lovely and fragrant along the large bed in the Memorial Garden. We have taken many cuttings successfully from these plants.
  • Family 
Buxaceae
  • Genus Sarcococca are compact, sometimes suckering evergreen shrubs with simple, leathery leaves and tiny, fragrant creamy-white flowers in winter or spring, followed by red, purple or black berries which may persist into the following winter. 
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Saving our Hedgehog friends  We can all help:

30/9/2016

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Hedgehogs are called the Gardeners Friends because they eat many pests - insects, slugs, , snails, centipedes and worms but you can leave out small amounts of cat or dog food
but watch you don't attract rats
Make sure there are hedgehog access points to your garden - a small hole at the bottom
of a fence                      ,
Provide places for them to hibernate - you can make hedgehog houses with
dry leaves and grass to form a nest or just have an undisturbed area with piles of
leaves and dried plant material, old logs and things to provide shelter

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End of September and the Station is still Blooming!

29/9/2016

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CELEBRATION PARTY FOR THIRD  GOLD AWARD IN ROW 2016

28/9/2016

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Fo;iar Designs and Plants - Diane and Ian Self

27/9/2016

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This giant from the steamy forests of Tywan is loose in Halesworth! Look in the garden of The Boarding House - T Rex of Tetrapanax Rex - the rice paper plant use to make artists paper and coloured paper for artificial flowers

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HALESWORTH IN BLOOM !

27/9/2016

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THREE GOLDS SO FAR 2014, 2015, 2016 AIMING FOR 2017 ON

ONLY THANKS TO EVERYONE REALLY WORKING HARD TOGETHER

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Children's Gardening Club give away bunches of their wonderful sunflowers to neighbours

25/9/2016

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Silver Leaved plants in our Library Planters - what are they?

24/9/2016

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David Olds  has been asked what these aromatic slightly pungent soft silver feathery plants are. A friend visiting us suggests they are one of the many lovely Artemisia, probably Artemisia abrotanum  also known as southernwood, lad's love, maid's ruin, old man, boy's plant, appleringle, Our Lord's wood, garden sagebrush, slitherwood and lemon plant.
They have a strong smell and bitter taste which deter animals eating them although Lepidoptera Moths larvae like them. They are often used as an air fresheners. They are found in Eurasia, Africa and North America. Their silvery appearance is because they are covered with white hairs and this makes them drought resistant. They are easy to grow, take cuttings from and this plant gained an RHS Award of Garden Merit.

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Another unsung Heroine in Halesworth at Holton Orchards

24/9/2016

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Sheila Dunce is a leading light with Halesworth Second Brownies and a wonderful friend to supporting the Housebound as she gifts 100 of her best apples for our gifts to the Halesworth Housebound each autumn.
Holton Orchards is still offering 15 different English varieties of apples namely 
Russet, Spartan, Ida red, Jonagold, Crispin(my favourite), Discovery, Laxton's Superb, Laxton's Fortune. Worcester, Gala, Katy, James Grieve, Beauty of Bath  and the delicious local variety Holton Special
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Rudyard Kipling's Poem

22/9/2016

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The Glory of the Garden





RUDYARD KIPLING
OUR England is a garden that is full of stately views,
Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues,
With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by;
But the Glory of the Garden lies in more than meets the eye. 
For where the old thick laurels grow, along the thin red wall,
You'll find the tool- and potting-sheds which are the heart of all
The cold-frames and the hot-houses, the dung-pits and the tanks,
The rollers, carts, and drain-pipes, with the barrows and the planks.

And there you'll see the gardeners, the men and 'prentice boys
Told off to do as they are bid and do it without noise ;
For, except when seeds are planted and we shout to scare the birds,
The Glory of the Garden it abideth not in words.
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose,
And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows ;
But they can roll and trim the lawns and sift the sand and loam,
For the Glory of the Garden occupieth all who come.

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing:-" Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knives.
There's not a pair of legs so thin, there's not a head so thick,
There's not a hand so weak and white, nor yet a heart so sick
But it can find some needful job that's crying to be done,
For the Glory of the Garden glorifieth every one.

Then seek your job with thankfulness and work till further orders,
If it's only netting strawberries or killing slugs on borders;
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden,
You will find yourself a partner In the Glory of the Garden.
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,
So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray 
For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away!

And the Glory of the Garden it shall never pass away ! 



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