Purple wellies blog
Welcome to Purple Wellies, the Painted Fern Garden Design blog. Here you will find gardening ideas, design inspiration and details of plants we grow and use in our garden designs.
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- Chelsea Flower Show
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- Community gardening
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- garden trends
- gardening
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- Habitats
- hardy geraniums
- harvesting rainwater
- honey fungus
- Horsell Garden Safari
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- NGS
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- plant combinations
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- RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
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- Salvia
- screening
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- spring
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- summer planting
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Floral Horsell
This year the Horsell Second Thursday Club are encouraging everyone in the village to brighten up their front gardens with colourful plants, whether they be big or small spaces, so let’s give passers-by something to slow them in their tracks as they walk past.
Bully for bulleyana
JULY 2016
With milder winters, Salvias have perhaps become more popular in the last few years. One Salvia that should be on every collectors list is S. bulleyana, a true connoisseurs plant. There is some confusion over the naming of this, so you might find it listed under S. flava megalantha. It also grows by a trade name of ‘Blue Lips’.