From Gardeners World 2013:
*Dan Pearson* brilliant garden designer based in Somerset. Created Millenium Forest - Tokachi Millennium Forest, Japan. Current exhibition Garden Museum, London.
Opium poppy, dark maroon colour . Creates naturalistic effect like self seeded from a field. Created ornamental and naturalistic gardens Hillside, Somerset. Mentioned Iris 'Gerald Derby', Giant Meadows, sweet bronze fennel, wild barley from Greece, oenothera sulphurea ( evening primrose). In wildflower meadow showes how yellow rattle weakens the grasss allowing other wild flowers to take hold.
Dan Pearson flowers:http://www.danpearsonstudio.com/#/journal/first-stirrings/
http://www.danpearsonstudio.com/#/studio/team/dan-pearson/
http://www.danpearsonstudio.com/#/selected-works/private/torrecchia/
Garlic:Garlic leek rust: harvest straight away. Different varieties more resistant like elephant garlic.
Potatoes:Flowers indicate the potatoes forming tubers, wait towards end of flowering for bigger potatoes.
Foxgloves: digitalis purpurea - need hummus rich soil or garden compost.
digitalis lutea 'small foxglove': http://www.seedaholic.com/digitalis-lutea-small-foxglove.html
digitalis purpurea 'alba' http://www.sarahraven.com/shop/digitalis-purpurea-alba.html
Sowing wildflower meadow: prepare as if digging over a border and then rake. Monty sowing wild grasses + flowers. Don't sow too thinly. 80gms wild flowers to nine times amount of sand. Sprinkle on soil surface and then rake lightly. Firm seed by treading gently - contact ensures good germination with seed tight up against soil. Keep well watered with fine mist rather than drenching the seeds.
Blossom end rot: effects tomatoes, often due to erratic watering. Black on end of fruit.
Nettle, comfreyLiquid feed: nettle high in nitrogen for foliage, comfrey high in potassium/potash and nitrogen. Soaked in water until smells horrid. Sieve and 2 gallons e.g. one watering can to one jam jar of solution. Use for tomatoes, seaweed good too.
Purple Sprouting Brocolli: spacing 2 feet in every direction, 3 foot if enough space. Important to plant firmly. Will need staking.
Summer prunning: restricts growth ( Winter promotes it) . Trained apples, pears, sepilliardes, cordons. Remove current growth to just above a fruiting spur. This restores shape and puts energy into the spurs for next season.
Cornus trees: 'Norman Haddon' amazing white bracts like butterflies ( bracts like Euphorbia pulcherimma ( poinsettia) and Bourgainvillea modified or specialized leaf)
Stratified seed is kept in cold place to delude it so when planted thinks it's Spring.
Erysimum (wallflower) is a genus ( low-level taxonomic rank) of botanical family Brassicaceae, that includes about 180 species ( one of the basic taxonomic units). Sow Spring and early Summer for flowers the following Spring. Plant out 9 inches apart in October which should develop good green foliage and gives room to develop. Plant in brassica patch. Flowers like Sweet William, foxgloves can be planted in similar way.
Lettuce: can be planted in old tim bath with holes for drainage. Oak leaf/salad bowl green and red can be planted in succession and each time cut, this variety will regrow . Germination must not exceed 24oc to 25oc. 'Tamar Organics' seeds.
Iris family Iridaceae. flowers June:
Iris pseudacorus - yellow flag iris
Iris foetidissima two irises native to the UK :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_foetidissima
Iris pallida - Croatian iris, plainer type and forebearer of other cultivated varieties.
'Jane Phillips' (GAM) another tall bearded iris, light blue flowers.
'Carnaby' Iris planted by Monty Don: Peach-pink standards, flushed with lilac. Deep rosy purple falls, paling
to peach-pink along the edges. Bright orange beards.
When planting iris keep rhizome above soil and when planted cut back leaves to two thirds.
Strawberries: prune plants by cutting off foliage, root new plants.
White Garden: Ami Majus - cow parsley, to create feeling of cow parsley in May.
Wisteria: native to Japan and China. 'Chinese Wisteria'.
