Gardens, they come in all shapes and sizes. From the humble back garden to the stately country park estate. But they all have the same thing in common. They bring great pleasure to both young and old. They keep you fit and can reduce your stress levels. The joy of sitting on the patio with a cup of tea admiring the colorful blooms can give you so much satisfaction.
Garden centres and Nurseries are there to readily supply the professional gardener right down to the novice who likes to potter around in their back garden. Every garden tool, through to packs of seeds. Different shaped pots, bedding plants, shrubs and trees all lined up for the grand designer.
But it takes many years and perseverance to get an established garden. But don’t despair. If you don’t have the space, or don’t have the green fingers, all is not lost. There are many fine gardens around the world where you can visit.
The gardens at the Chateau de Versailles in France. 250 acres filled with paths that lead to flower beds and quiet tranquil areas filled with ornaments and lakes. The Royal Botanical gardens in Kew, England. This is filled with greenhouses. Beneath the domes, botanical science and conservation come together. In the grounds is housed the largest Victorian greenhouse in the world. The Bonsai house has trees that are more than 150 years old.
For something more colorful there is the Keukenhof gardens in The Netherlands. It has more than 7 million tulips, daffodils and hyacinths within its grounds. The Netherlands is famous for its tulips and the growing of bulbs. 100 million bulbs are exported annually around the world.
Gardens also feature in many a good novel. The Secret Garden written by Frances Hodgson Burnett based in Yorkshire, England. Where a young orphan discovers the secret garden in her Uncle’s gloomy estate and brings it back to life.
Oscar Wilde wrote a short story called The Selfish Giant’s Garden. The giant builds a high wall to keep the children out of his beautiful garden. The garden is plunged into continual winter until the day the children return.
Tom’s Midnight Garden is another classic novel where Tom who lives in an urban apartment block. He slips out one night to discover a magical garden that existed many years ago.
Nursery rhymes do not escape the garden topic. Small little ditties like Round and round the garden written in the 1940’s. But the most related nursery rhyme is Mary Mary quite contrary written around the 1700’s
Mary Mary quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With cockle shells and silver bells
And pretty maids in a row.
But I prefer this version written in 2015
Mary Mary quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With coco peat and coir blocks
Supplied by Boyce Agro.
Enjoy your garden, whatever size. Real or mythical.
Garden centres and Nurseries are there to readily supply the professional gardener right down to the novice who likes to potter around in their back garden. Every garden tool, through to packs of seeds. Different shaped pots, bedding plants, shrubs and trees all lined up for the grand designer.
But it takes many years and perseverance to get an established garden. But don’t despair. If you don’t have the space, or don’t have the green fingers, all is not lost. There are many fine gardens around the world where you can visit.
The gardens at the Chateau de Versailles in France. 250 acres filled with paths that lead to flower beds and quiet tranquil areas filled with ornaments and lakes. The Royal Botanical gardens in Kew, England. This is filled with greenhouses. Beneath the domes, botanical science and conservation come together. In the grounds is housed the largest Victorian greenhouse in the world. The Bonsai house has trees that are more than 150 years old.
For something more colorful there is the Keukenhof gardens in The Netherlands. It has more than 7 million tulips, daffodils and hyacinths within its grounds. The Netherlands is famous for its tulips and the growing of bulbs. 100 million bulbs are exported annually around the world.
Gardens also feature in many a good novel. The Secret Garden written by Frances Hodgson Burnett based in Yorkshire, England. Where a young orphan discovers the secret garden in her Uncle’s gloomy estate and brings it back to life.
Oscar Wilde wrote a short story called The Selfish Giant’s Garden. The giant builds a high wall to keep the children out of his beautiful garden. The garden is plunged into continual winter until the day the children return.
Tom’s Midnight Garden is another classic novel where Tom who lives in an urban apartment block. He slips out one night to discover a magical garden that existed many years ago.
Nursery rhymes do not escape the garden topic. Small little ditties like Round and round the garden written in the 1940’s. But the most related nursery rhyme is Mary Mary quite contrary written around the 1700’s
Mary Mary quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With cockle shells and silver bells
And pretty maids in a row.
But I prefer this version written in 2015
Mary Mary quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With coco peat and coir blocks
Supplied by Boyce Agro.
Enjoy your garden, whatever size. Real or mythical.
CHRISTOPHER HUNT
BOYCE AGRO
UK
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