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Hazel collected the vital sign-off slip from Tatton today to confirm that we had cleared our plot down to bare earth. It's all over bar the photos, the recollections and hopefully some future visitors to the garden. So now it's back to the proper business of
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A long overdue blog update: I'm delighted to report that we won a silver medal at Tatton. Under all the circumstances this was a great result and I'm very proud of it. We had a great first couple of days at the show, bright sunny weather
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The Whispering Garden at Tatton Show is finished - I've put a full blog entry on the RHS website so you can read what happened on the final day here: Link to RHS blog Click on 'read more' at the foot of the latest entry for
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No time for details - here's the summary: - Saturday was fine - got lots done - Sunday was miserable - rained all day. Still got lots done, but struggled with the wet and gloom - Monday - fabulous. Almost finished planting. BBC came to film an extract
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Although it was a bit drizzly this morning, we took two car loads of plants to Tatton to start planting. By the time we arrived the rain was persistent and it just got heavier as the morning wore on. We gave up at lunchtime and came back - Debbie and
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...To the Salvation Army group from Warrington who visited tonight. Despite dark clouds and light rain everyone seemed to enjoy themselves - the group was a real pleasure to host and the coach driver made the canal bridge look as easy as anything to navigate. A couple of quick pictures
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Today went really well - it rained as we arrived and as we got in the van to leave and not once in between. We must be charmed. I've posted some pictures onto the RHS Tatton blog site - so to save me uploading twice, here's
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I know the subject of this persistent rain is getting boring, but for the record: - We had 11 times more rain in June than in April - It's only the 5th of July and we have already recorded more than May's total rainfall. - We
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A few weeks ago I agreed to contribute to an exhibitor blog for Tatton Show. I assumed that lots of exhibitors would be participating, but it turns out there are just two of us - which is a little weird. Anyway, here's the link. http://www.rhs.org.
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Our first garden painting day dawned damp and chilly but the collective talent of our visitors was undimmed, with some gorgeous still-life flower paintings in progress by the end of the morning. A brighter afternoon gave Chris the chance to do a quick demonstration and some of the hardier souls
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Dave and I spent this weekend at Arley Garden Festival, running our first proper nursery plant stall. Miraculously we escaped the downpours which slid past us all day and we achieved what we set out to do which was to talk to anyone and everyone. Dave is a natural, chatting
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In April we had 14mm of rain all month. In the last 7 days we have had 110mm of rain - with 30mm today and 20 in the last hour. Keeping on top of the garden has meant dashing in between downpours to stake plants and catch up with mowing