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Guild Members Do Well

George & Jenny take the top spot
in the Hinksforf Park garden competition.

Like team GB they did the work

 and got the result.

Marlene with a little help from Jack

also won two awards.

Hampton Court Trip

Hampton Court Gardens

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Quick coffee fix!

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Ah! The Perfect Couple!

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Is it musical benches!

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Just checking out the grass!

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Mandy's Mafia

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150 yr wisteria arch. Can I have one tomorrow.

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The Swindon Connection!

What tickled their fancy!

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The Italian look!

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Bee Fly Bombylius major

Only a handful of records ever, in Staffordshire.

Photo by Patrick Coin creative commons Copy-right (CC) April 26, 2008

The Bee Fly lxys its eggs on the larvae of a Solitary Bee. When it hatches it eats the bee larvae.

Goerge Allen & myself saw one in my garden, then on my finger. If I had realised what a rarity it was I would have photographed it before helping it out of the greehouse. I took the camera out of my pocket with my other hand, altered the zoom setting to macro, only to witness the Bee Fly fly away.

 "Jewels on the cut" by Graham Fisher MBE.

Dwarf Rhododendren

They add colour to the spring garden.

Hepatica nobilis

A beautiful woodland plant, often grown in the alpine house. This one is in a shady spot in hyper-tufa. A member of the buttercup family.

Gardening can be hard work, Jack kindly helps by getting Marlene the spade.

Callianthemum anemonoides - Ranunculaceae

This little beauty is usually seen in the Alpine house but this tiny delight is in hypertufa outside

Another gem for the Ericaceae family

Phylliopsis 'Coppelia' a bi-generic hybrid between a Phyllodoce & Kalmiopsis leachiana. Cultivar:

Much easier to grow than its parents. It needs an acid peaty soil that is well drained but doesn't dry out. Generally trouble free.

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"Gardening on a Smaller Scale"

A minature garden

I n the foreground is a Rowan tree. Sorbus reducta a Mountain Ash that can be measured in inches.

"A Splash of Colour."

Goerge in his prize winning garden.

Welcome

Welcome to our new blog.

This blog is for all the members of the Wall Heath Horticultural Guild. You can get information or add information, view other peoples photos or add your own.

If you wish to make posts please e-mail keith@worldbirds.eu