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2 unusual facts about Gardening


Iron John

Since he is ashamed of his golden hair, he refuses to remove his cap before the king and is sent to assist the gardener.

Pioneer Women in Wisconsin

Gardening was another one of the major chores of frontier women, because the families relied on these gardens to get them through the winter.


1803 in literature

Humphry Repton - Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

Adam Purple

He is often considered the godfather of the urban gardening movement, and his "Garden of Eden" was a well-known garden on the Lower East Side of Manhattan until it was demolished by then mayor Rudolph Giuliani, after considerable controversy extending from the Koch Administration through the Dinkins Administration.

Alan Meale

Meale was mentioned in the Parliamentary expenses scandal having claimed £13,000 over 4 years for gardening.

Alfred Abel

In his early adulthood, Abel first studied to be a forester and later studied gardening in Saxon Mittweida.

Anne Swithinbank

Gardener's Question Time: All Your Gardening Problems Solved (with co-authors John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness, illustrations by Bunny Guinness, and photographs from The Garden Picture Gallery and others, paperback, 325 pages, Bookmart Limited, 2005, ISBN 1-84509-189-2)

Bunny Guinness

Gardener's Question Time: All Your Gardening Problems Solved (with co-authors John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood, Anne Swithinbank, and photographs from The Garden Picture Gallery and others, paperback, 325 pages, Bookmart Limited, 2005, ISBN 1-84509-189-2)

Charles Bridgeman

A contemporary of Bridgeman’s, Horace Walpole, describing his colleague’s design style in his essay On Modern Gardening, wrote: ‘though he still adhered much to strait walks with high clipt hedges, they were only his great lines; the rest he diversified by wilderness, and with loose groves of oak, though still within surrounding hedges’ (Amherst, 1896, p. 249).

Charlie Dimmock

She has also appeared on American television, presenting a gardening slot on The Early Show on CBS.

CITY-DT

Frank Ferragine - weather specialist; Breakfast Television (weekday mornings, 5:30-9 a.m.), also gardening specialist

Costa's Garden Odyssey

Costa's Garden Odyssey is an Australian television gardening program hosted by landscape architect Costa Georgiadis.

Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers

Van Gogh wrote many letters to his brother Theo and Willemina about gardening ideas, color harmonies and the benefits of working in a garden.

Édouard-Christophe Pynaert

He studied at a local gardening school, and from 1861 was a professor at the Ecole d'horticulture in Gentbrugge.

Elspeth Thompson

She also presented a popular four-part series on trees for BBC Radio 4, and wrote on gardening and interiors for The Sunday Telegraph, the Observer and the Guardian.

Forest gardening

The Agroforestry Research Trust (ART), managed by Martin Crawford, runs experimental forest gardening projects on a number of plots in Devon, United Kingdom.

Fortunato Teho

During this time, Teho also began writing regular gardening columns for newspapers throughout the state of Hawaii, including the Honolulu Advertiser and Star-Bulletin, the Hilo Hawaii Tribune-Herald, the Maui News and the Kauai Garden Island.

Garden centre

Competition has also increased from online garden centres such as Crocus, Greenfingers and Gardening Express, although companies such as Capital Gardens, Dobbies, Riverside Garden Centre and The Garden Centre Group have now responded by developing and marketing their own online operations.

Garden Media Guild

:(for the best three gardening articles in a magazine or newspaper) Roy Lancaster, 2008; Jane Boore, 2007; Ambra Edwards, 2006

Grape tomato

The Santa F1 variety is rare in seed form, being offered only by a few seed houses around the world (the United Kingdom's Thompson and Morgan has sporadically featured the variety in its catalog from time to time (see below)); some gardeners report the seed can breed true out to six or more generations, an assertion that has received little notice from most gardening authorities.

Harry Dodson

In 1984, Jennifer Davies of the BBC was looking for a venue for a projected television programme on traditional methods of vegetable gardening, to be called The Victorian Kitchen Garden.

Harry Oakman

An immigrant from Belgium, Oakman wrote numerous illustrated books on gardening and, as a public landscaper, enjoyed enormous influence over the design of open spaces in Brisbane, Canberra, and Newcastle.

Henry Homeyer

Homeyer is a regular commentator on gardening for Vermont Public Radio, and has taught organic and sustainable gardening at the college level.

Herbert Cowley

Herbert Cowley (born 1885 – died November 1967, Newton Abbott, Devon) was a botanist, gardener, garden photographer and garden writer who edited The Garden journal from 1915 to the mid 1920s and wrote many gardening books until retiring in 1936.

Injinoo, Queensland

Although self-sufficient, through fishing and gardening, the Community made requests to the then Church of England to establish a mission and school.

Lonicera fragrantissima

In 1853 the editor of American gardening magazine The Horticulturist wrote that the previous year he had been sent a specimen from a plant that had been flowering in the gardens of Hatfield House, the Marquess of Salisbury's stately home in Hertfordshire.

Maggie Barry

Featured were ‘bug man’ Ruud Kleinpaste, gardening experts Bill Ward, Jack Hobbs, Gordon Collier and Professor Thomas William Walker ("John Walker").

Marquess of Donegall

His wife Dehra was also a politician while their daughter Marion Caroline Dehra was the mother of politicians James Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, and Sir Robin Chichester-Clark and of gardening writer and television presenter Penelope Hobhouse.

Michael Weishan

Co-produced with WTTW Chicago, the program will be the first new gardening show on PBS in over a decade, and is expected to debut winter 2015.

Montrose, Victoria

He hosted a gardening program for ABC Television entitled 'Sow What', which was mostly shot on location at his one-hectare home garden in Montrose, from 1967 to 1988.

Neoprene

Hydroponic and aerated gardening systems make use of small neoprene inserts to hold plants in place while propagating cuttings, or using net cups.

Neuendorf, Bavaria

Participating in local cultural life are the orchestra, the Franconian Costume Orchestra, the “Schönrain Echo”, the sport club, the FC Bayern Fanclub, a Shrovetide Carnival (known in Franconia as Fasenacht) club, the fire brigade, a Red Cross society, a mixed choir, the Catholic Women’s League, the fruitgrowing and gardening club, the ComputerClub Neuendorf and the Kolping Family.

No. 300 Polish Bomber Squadron

The squadron used several versions, including Mark IC, IV, III and X. In 1941 while the unit was equipped with Wellingtons and flying from Hemswell on 'Gardening' (mining) operations, the squadron's Intelligence Officer was Michael Bentine, later to become well known as an entertainer.

One Foot Under

Visa Vuorio (Tobias Zilliacus), a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a few months to live.

Pippa Greenwood

Gardener's Question Time: All Your Gardening Problems Solved (with co-authors John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank, illustrations by Bunny Guinness, and photographs from The Garden Picture Gallery and others, paperback, 325 pages, Bookmart Limited, 2005, ISBN 1-84509-189-2)

Renee Shepherd

Renee Shepherd is a gardening entrepreneur and writer known for heirloom seed advocacy and garden-based cooking using home-grown herbs.

Ricky Groves

Groves has also talked of his love of gardening shows on television, and partook in a gardening trivia quiz when he was interviewed by Tony Livesey on Five Live in October 2010.

Roger Deakin

He also made several television documentary films covering subjects as diverse as rock music, Essex, Hank Wangford, allotments and the world of horse racing.

Seeds for Africa

Seeds for Africa is a British charity that has set up over 800 garden projects across 25 African countries, where it encourages sustainable vegetable gardening by providing indigenous vegetable seeds, agricultural equipment and technical expertise.

Slow gardening

Slow gardening, which is an attitude, not a “how-to” checklist of things to do or not do, was started by American horticulturist and garden author Felder Rushing, who was inspired by Slow Food, an international movement founded in the 1980s by Italian activist Carlo Petrini.

Somersal Herbert Hall

He lent it in 1808 for life to cousins of his, the novelist Frances Jacson (1754–1842) and her sister Maria Jacson (1755–1829), a writer on botany and gardening, who were in financial straits caused by a spendthrift brother.

The Ash Garden

She was diagnosed with lupus and takes up gardening, planning elaborate landscapes every year.

The Gardening Gamble

Described by TV Guide Canada as "the gardening equivalent of Trading Spaces, Gardening Gamble is co-hosted by Jordan Taylor.

Variations on the Death of Trotsky

After seven essentially comedic variations, the eighth involves Trotsky seeing Mercader out of the house in a civil manner, with Ramon—having posed as a gardener—revealing that he actually did perform some gardening on Trotsky's property and requesting that Trotsky go outside to admire his nasturtiums.

Vasili's Garden

Hosted by Vasili Kanidiadis, each episode of the show, which is unscripted and largely unedited, focuses on the plants and produce from the garden of a migrant family from Melbourne, with Kanidiadis emphasising traditional methods of gardening and Greek cuisine.

War Angel LP

The track "Better Come On Your A Game" also features a background vocal sample from Alan Titchmarsh, British gardening celebrity, discussing the numerous benefits of potted water features.

Warwickshire College

Broadcaster Chris Beardshaw, who has hosted gardening programmes on the BBC and Channel 4, and is famed for his work on Gardeners' World, attended Pershore College.

Will Ingwersen

An occasional broadcaster on shows such as the BBC's Gardeners' Question Time, Will is remembered for his contribution to alpine and rock gardening.

WOKI

Weekend programming includes a line-up on various topics such as gardening, home maintenance and mortgages and health, as well as syndicated programming like The Mutual Fund Show with Adam Bold, Kim Komando and ABC's Radio Perspective.


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