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Hidcote
This is the fourth installment of multiple reports from the week-long educational trip some of our team members took in the summer of 2022. I remember the feeling of absolute joy and excitement when my parents took me to Walt Disney World when I was a young kid; around every bend was a different ride, a life-size character, and a thousand other kids who were as stoked...
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Highgrove
This is the third installment of multiple reports from the week-long educational trip some of our team members took in the summer of 2022. Highgrove is the private residence of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, established in 1980. This was one of the gardens I was most excited to see as I am a fan of English gardens as well as British royalty! I would...
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Superbloom
This is the second installment of multiple reports from the week-long educational trip some of our team members took in the summer of 2022. What is a Superbloom you ask? Well, Nigel Dunnett did it. He is a professor, author, and landscape designer in England. Well known for wild landscapes using a mix of seeds and potted plants then allowing nature to run its...
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Kew Gardens
This is the first installment of multiple reports from the week-long educational trip some of our team members took in the summer of 2022. Landed, arrived, rested. We arrived in London on Friday June 30th on a red eye flight from Dulles, dumped our bags, caught a breakfast, and went to the Chelsea Physics Garden located next to the Thames. It was a smaller garden...
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Company Field Trip ’21 – North Carolina
Flash back to fall of 2021--our Fine Gardening Team Leader, Patrick, writes about a company field trip to North Carolina's best public gardens. Temperatures have cooled, and fall color has begun to grace the trees throughout Albemarle County. Autumn is a time marked by change, its calm transitions contrasting with the vibrancy of spring and summer. Perched on the...
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Water Conservation & Xeric Gardening
All of the public gardens that we visited on our first company trip since 2019 to North Carolina took advantage of xeriscaping* and/or water conservation in one way or another. After the terribly dry summer that we’ve had this year, I was relieved to see such lush and varied solutions to some of the challenges our climate is throwing at us. Mary Duke Biddle Rose...