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Crocus – The First Vibrant Colour Of The Year
And this week’s favourite flower is…. The crocus! I’m so fickle, my favourite flower changes as I walk around the garden. It’s more tricky at this time of year though, as there’re a lot less to choose from. My favourite can last up to a week! Crocus – They lit my gardening fire! The humble little crocus bulb, was the first plant I ever payed money for. When I started to create my first little garden, with virtually no plant knowledge. Lots of generous gardeners gave me all sorts of plants. Things that they’d split from their own gardens. It was autumn, and in those days, there wasn’t the choice…
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Dorothy Clive Garden
Creation of the Garden The origin of the Dorothy Clive Garden has a heart-warming story behind it. About a husbands love for his ailing wife. Colonel Harry Clive’s wife Dorothy, had failing health due to Parkinson’s disease. As a result she couldn’t venture far from the house, but did like to have a regular walk. To make her walks more interesting than just a stroll around the lawn, he decided to develop the overgrown gravel pit, into woodland walks. Sadly Dorothy died just a couple of years after the work started, but apparently she was involved in some of the planting and did get pleasure from the newly created woodland…
