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Clivias, aloes and pansies in terracotta pots on a gravel bench in the glasshouse

Notes from the people who keep the garden: what they moved, mended, sowed and pressed this month.

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Herbarium: 1 story

Hanging baskets of red flowers above the benches of a nursery glasshouse

1 November 2026 · Nursery · 3 min read

The potting shed in November

Cuttings, cold frames and the first sowings for Orchid Weeks.Read the story

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1 November 2026The potting shed in NovemberCuttings, cold frames and the first sowings for Orchid Weeks.Nursery3 min
22 October 2026Repotting a 150-year-old cycadSix gardeners, a gantry and two days: how we moved Encephalartos altensteinii into its fourth pot since 1874.Palm House6 min
8 October 2026Why the Cloud Forest is kept at 16°CCool nights make Andean orchids flower. The mist runs every twenty minutes and the vents open at 18°C.Glasshouses4 min
17 September 2026Restoring the Palm House gallery stairForty-one cast iron treads, nine coats of paint and one tread that turned out to be wood.Palm House5 min
14 August 2026The lily pond in AugustHardy water lilies open at ten and close by four. Why the pond is at its best before lunch.Garden3 min
2 July 2026Pressing ferns for the herbariumHow a frond becomes a specimen that will last three hundred years, in five steps and a lot of newspaper.Herbarium4 min
19 June 2026The double border at full heightNinety metres long, two and a half metres tall and planned on graph paper every January.Garden4 min

Dark maple branches under a canopy of gold autumn leaves

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