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Good Weather For Ducks
Steve Edneys Blog * 23 Feb 2010
As I sit here looking out of the window at yet more rain I know like me the rest of the gardeners are all praying that March is going to be a lot dryer than February has been, after the snow at the beginning of the month hindering us the last thing we needed was this much rain, shame we didn’t have some of it last summer! We are all fed up trying to dodge the ra...
February in the garden
Steve Edneys Blog * 11 Feb 2010
February is a great month to be a gardener and not just because it’s my birthday this month it’s also really the beginning of the season for us. We start sowing seeds in earnest this month I don’t bother any earlier I know people say you can and we do have some really great heated greenhouses but the days are shorter in Jan so the light levels are po...
January in the garden
Steve Edneys Blog * 15 Jan 2010
Quote of the month He who plants a tree, plants hope Why do so many people retreat indoors the second it gets cold! I bet there are thousands of people who work indoors who go straight to work and then straight home and spend the weekends indoors in the winter. The trouble is (and I’ve thought about this often) that not only do you seldom see the world outside b...
Dream Job…
Steve Edneys Blog * 10 Dec 2009
Wow!!! A year and a half ago I was a floor supervisor in a department store. I now have my dream job as a gardener in a beautiful historic garden. I’ve always been a keen amateur gardener but it was only a couple of years ago I realised it was the career I wanted. When I saw the advert for the apprenticeship at the Salutation I knew I had to apply. I was lucky t...
December in the garden
Steve Edneys Blog * 05 Dec 2009
Quote of the month in the depths of winter is when I realise there lies within me an eternal summer It’s all change amongst the garden team, we have said goodbye to two members who have worked tirelessly to help me transform the grounds over the past few years, my three students this past year who have finished their apprenticeship are either moving on or are ta...