I am a novice gardener and the vast array of latin names for plants that I don't recognize was not really helpful to my objective. She wrote many articles and books, including the timeless classic, ‘We Made A Garden’, which charts the trials and tribulations of her early years in gardening with Walter Fish at East Lambrook Manor. A good bone structure must come first, with an intelligent use of evergreen plants so that the garden is always clothed, no matter what time of year,” wrote Margery in We Made a Garden .

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Clearly none of us are ever going to achieve a Margery sized garden or house without a lottery win, but you can still dream! A passion for nature and ability to mix plants effectively even in the smallest space and in differing environments, made her ideas relevant to all gardeners of her time and for future generations of gardeners. My grandmother's purple primroses are long gone and I cannot seem to get replacements to settle, but there is always salal, a native bush much-loved by florists for its leathery leaves, and loved by my family for the berries I use like blueberries in muffins.Delightful read on the creation from scratch of an English Garden on the site of an old farm house and surrounding farm yard/barton combining her husband's 4 elements of a garden: lawn, walls, paths, hedges and her love of flowers, especially in every season possible. Lonicera nitida hedges (clipped by Stainer every two weeks during the growing season) and Lawson’s cypress ‘Fletcheri’ ( Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Fletcheri’) pillars introduce what Fish described as a note of restraint in contrast to the floral abundance.

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Current gardener Whitty sums up the policy on opportunists as, “If it is not in the way and it looks good, leave it. All our journalism is independent and is in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. Her silver garden caught the heat of the day, and her damp, shady garden used a stream that ran behind an old malthouse. She was a regular contributor to Amateur Gardening and The Field, and has written six other gardening books.At the start of World War I, Lord Northcliffe was the most powerful man in Fleet Street, wielding influence at every level.