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Tim Ingram
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January 14, 2018, 11:21:14 PM »
Thanks Jan. Have some good connections here and on Facebook with gardeners in America and in the NARGS. I like that International nature of gardening, it goes with my scientific mind and background which crosses boundaries. Hope to show much more through this spring. There is an article coming up on our garden later in the spring as well - photographed last April, which is quite encouraging to work on it now for 2018.
Ian, Heather Angel's talk was superb! I've posted a short description on my Kent Diary
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/diaries/Kent/+January+/875/.
The only problem is really learning from her photographic skills - I now need a good Macro lens and much more time and patience. We advertised the talk widely and doubled our normal audience which gave a real buzz to the evening. She stayed with us so I also had a good opportunity to speak with her before and after her talk; she is a very remarkable lady.
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Dr. Timothy John Ingram. Nurseryman & gardener with strong interest in plants of Mediterranean-type climates and dryland alpines. Garden in Kent, UK.
www.coptonash.plus.com
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January 15, 2018, 03:44:46 PM »
Tim, it looks like you had a good meeting from your report. I don,t think I fall into any category regarding plants. I am not a scientist and not a very good gardener. My plant photos. are what could be described at best as "record photos." I have looked for wild flowers for many years and if I find a rare species I wonder why it is growing in that place and not other places. I have quite a collection of flower photos. but doubt if any would be up to the standard of being published. I don,t take the time to compose the photo. People like Heather Angel must take a long time to get everything just right before pressing the shutter, I envy their skill and commitment.
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February 21, 2018, 01:19:59 PM »
In March issue of RHS magazine The Garden - article by Rachel de Thame on Tim and Gillian Ingram's garden at Copton Ash ......
Not great shots, just quick snaps to give you the idea!
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
Editor: International Rock Gardener e-magazine
Tim Ingram
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March 23, 2018, 11:44:28 AM »
Still a little while to go before the real glories of spring flowering like those in Bennet Smith's photographs in that article, but it's wonderful watching everything emerging now, and most of these plants were nicely covered in snow during the arctic blast of weather we have just had. Looking forward to spring. A few nice things here in the foreground from Choice Landscapes and Hartside Nursery at Alpine Garden Society Shows. There may be more at the South West AGS Show at Rosemoor tomorrow - especially from Keith and Ros Wiley at Wildside.
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Dr. Timothy John Ingram. Nurseryman & gardener with strong interest in plants of Mediterranean-type climates and dryland alpines. Garden in Kent, UK.
www.coptonash.plus.com
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March 23, 2018, 12:14:48 PM »
Looking forward to read it! I have saved it to the holidays next week
(We are expecting the third blast of arctic weather in 4 weeks)
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April 15, 2018, 08:04:42 PM »
Another diary of sense from Tim -
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/diaries/Kent/+April+/894/
including images of many old specialist nurery catalogues which will bring memories for many of us.
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
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For the true plantsman/geek. The diminutive flowers of a Penstemon, aff. grinnellii (RMB 551), ex. seed from Robert Barnard. This is growing in a narrow sand bed next to our neighbours which previously was an ugly Leylandii hedge. There are some other oddities here including a couple of umbels from Steve Law at Brighton plants, Heracleum stevenii and Thapsia garganica, which I will picture anon. The second picture shows the shrubby Scabiosa cretica and a couple of Sideritis species, surprisingly not cut back by the arctic weather in March, along with Veronica thymoides and Lithodora oleifolia (just beginning to flower).
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Dr. Timothy John Ingram. Nurseryman & gardener with strong interest in plants of Mediterranean-type climates and dryland alpines. Garden in Kent, UK.
www.coptonash.plus.com
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Readers will be aware both of Tim's championing of his local district, and his agreement with so many of us that television treats "alpine and rock gardening" rather poorly - so it was good to read this ....
Tim Ingram
Well would you know (Margaret Young, Paddy and Ben Parmee, Adrian Young, Cliff Booker and anyone else who champions rock gardening and alpine plants). The Faversham Rock Garden is on Gardener's World this Friday... and it is a pretty good example - a real feature of the town. See the very end of my Diary Entry from last summer
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/diaries/Kent/+June+/835/
Sandra Todd
re: Blooming Marvelous Gardening Faversham
This may be of interest to some of you, BBC Gardeners World film unit was in Faversham a couple of weeks ago. They were doing a piece on the volunteers and Abel’s Acre ( Forbes Road rockery), anyway it’s going to be shown on Friday 8th June.
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
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October 21, 2018, 04:28:57 PM »
A reminder that Tim's diaries are available on the AGS website :
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/diaries/Kent/#top
I commend them to readers.
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Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!
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Tim and Gillian's garden at Copton Ash near Faversham has various open days for the National Garden Scheme in 2020 ....
https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/9253/?fbclid=IwAR2m4i82OchMgJgp3HRB9OSW-gLXCkZs2KxB3xgoeANy0Xlmc9uzQtouqpg
for all details
Tim wrote on Facebook : The final touches before the weather inevitably sympathises and breaks down for the weekend. If you like the bracing climate of North Kent and want to blow away the cobwebs there will be warm soup and good company. Even owls are welcome 😉.
https://ngs.org.uk/view-garden/9253/
(Note: parking may be difficult outside the garden on the A251 Ashford Road due to the imminent gas pipeline repairs. There is walking access to the A251 from Salters Lane (parallel to the A251) via the small private lane close to the motorway bridge)
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June 07, 2020, 12:40:26 PM »
Tim continues his Diary of a Kent Gardener on the AGS website .... this is the link to one from 2017 ...
http://archive.alpinegardensociety.net/diaries/Kent/%20June%20/830/?fbclid=IwAR3IziUPZZcKgq1y8RxYLyCAAofiqhTZWfIo4B-juSBXeYRUKLOyAFRjDPg
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