The Jewel Garden

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When creating a jewel garden it pays to think a little about the location, aspect and exposure of your site. It is also the season of fruitfulness with the orchard providing over 50 different varieties of apples and the vegetable garden offering its final rich summer harvest.

The Jewel Garden by Monty Don, Sarah Don | Waterstones

this is when the falling light levels coupled with heat make the rich colours like plum, caramel, purple and ruby red glow richly. When I learned that Monty had a memoir, and that he wrote about his battle with depression, I had to read it. A chance bequest gave them enough money to put down a deposit on a house, and being (evidently) considerable risk-takers they went for an ancient, unrenovated farmhouse and two acres of field, near a river that turned out to be rather good at flooding. We always hope for a cold, dry winter although with climate change a very wet, rather mild one is becoming all too common.All the clear technique and mastery and vision are kinda secondary to the fact that this album brought me calm and joy during one of the most difficult times in my life. I bought a hundred 6ft chestnut stakes and quartered them (chestnut cleaves beautifully down the grain) to make 400. Gardners will love this especially; as the Dons describe in detail the struggles and triumphs building their gorgeous garden. He wrote this book with his wife, Sarah, and I must say I enjoyed her contributions as much as I did Monty’s .

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The Jewel Garden gives the background to its name—Monty and Sarah first began their career together by building a wildly successful jewelry business, until the economy collapsed in the 1980s, along with their business. It has all Monty’s tips and essential pieces of knowledge; and also shares his view that gardening is the secret to living well.

This means that we eat seasonally as well as use the greenhouse and cloches to protect plants and also plan our succession very carefully so that as one crop comes to an end there are young plants already growing strongly to replace them, either of the same variety or an alternative type according to the season. MACRAME' FOR BEGINNERS: A Complete Guide to Learning the Art of Macramé To Decorate Home, the Garden and To Build Bracelets and Jewels. I could go on but, I am going to extracate myself from under sleeping Pups and go out and water and check coldframes and Greenhouse, as well as see if it is time to put bulb containers into place.