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Catherine Horwood
From the greenhouse
Author and gardener
Interests: women's history, horticultural history, women and gardening
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Hand in glove
Posted Mar 24, 2013 at A Gardening Woman
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Timeline Photos | Facebook
Reblogged Mar 5, 2013 at Gardening Women
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Dr Beverley Glover: new Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden
Posted Feb 25, 2013 at Gardening Women
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An online garden design tool that works?
Posted Feb 11, 2013 at A Gardening Woman
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The Story behind those Valentine's Day flowers
Getting very excited about the opening later this week of the new exhibition at The Garden Museum, Floriculture: Flowers, Love and Money. It's about time that the story of floristry, the 'Cinderella' trade of the horticultural industry, was told. It opens, naturally, on Thursday 14 February, the biggest day of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2013 at Gardening Women
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Half Term Treat for East Anglian Women Gardeners
Posted Oct 26, 2012 at Gardening Women
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Top young gardener in the country is in my grandson's class!
Where will you find the best young gardener in the UK? In Woodbridge, Suffolk Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2012 at A Gardening Woman
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For seven days only...
You can hear me talking about 'Gardening Women' on BBC Radio Suffolk together with the terrific Georgina Wroe! Follow link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p00v0w2x and fast forward to 2:34:00. (This link will expire on 19 July 2012.) Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2012 at Gardening Women
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As usual, Amazon.com will have it but I think you may be in the UK? If so, then the original version under the title Gardening Women is available at Amazon.co.uk or all good bookshops.
Thanks for your interest!
Women and Their Gardens - US Edition
Phew! Gardening Women has crossed the Big Pond safely and become Women and Their Gardens. Not only that, it's being welcomed widely. In fact it's earned a four-gherkin rating ('Good, innit?') on the Anglo Addict blog - thank you so much! Here is a selection of its US reviews: Women and Their Gar...
More RHS Honours for British gardening women
Two women honoured by the RHS with their top medals Continue reading
Posted Jun 13, 2012 at Gardening Women
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Women and Their Gardens - US Edition
Gardening Women becomes Women and Their Gardens in the US and receives a '4 gherkin' (Good, innit?) review Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2012 at Gardening Women
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Lutyens' Suffolk niece - Lady Margaret Loch
Posted Apr 8, 2012 at Gardening Women
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Pearl Sulman - an appreciation
Posted Apr 5, 2012 at Gardening Women
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New Gardening History MA launched
Great news as a new MA in Garden History is launched Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2012 at Gardening Women
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Celebrating International Women's Day with Gardening Women
My guest blog for Notcutts celebrating some great female plant finders for International Women's Day Continue reading
Posted Mar 9, 2012 at Gardening Women
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Are you a Scottish Gardening Woman?
Posted Feb 27, 2012 at Gardening Women
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Brenda Colvin: vanishing landscapes rediscovered
Welcome to a full biography of landscape designer, Brenda Colvin Continue reading
Posted Nov 26, 2011 at Gardening Women
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Can't see the garden for the flowers? Read on...
How to spot problem patches in your garden Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2011 at Gardening Women
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Yes they did survive - you can either stuff them with fleece or use them as a support for the fleece - or both!
Neat November gardening tips from Jane Loudon
Some timely advice from Gardening for Ladies by Jane Loudon (1840) NOVEMBER. "The Dahlias, if not all killed by the frost the preceding month, should now be taken up; and the greenhouse plants being all removed, the ground should be dug over, having previously received a good dressing of vege...
Martin - apologies for not coming back to you before. This slipped through the net. Yes, I'd love something about Barbara Everard. Do send something through plus an illustration or two if that's possible. How are you related?
Kate Adie and Marianne North - an unlikely twosome?
I must admit to being a bit surprised when a tweet came through saying that Kate Adie of BBC News fame has done a slideshow for the BBC on the Marianne North gallery re-vamp at Kew. But then when I thought about it for a moment, it's not so strange. Adie, as one of the BBC's top international jo...
Catherine Horwood is now following Philip Voice
Jun 22, 2011
Crocus sale has Californian connection
Posted Jun 7, 2011 at Gardening Women
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OK - Here's the link to the X-rated version - all credit to Arabella Sock. Simon Cowell, eat your heart out:
http://yfrog.com/h4kdusqj
Chelsea laughs - James Alexander Sinclair gets a Toasting
Chelsea Press Day and I headed off to see Ann-Marie Powell's garden for the British Heart Foundation whose progress I'd been following on Twitter (@AnnMariePowell). And what do I find? Crowds of press, Ann-Marie and I wearing the same dress and no hiding place! So thanks to Camilla Swift for cap...
How funny! And how funny - we're going to a Buck House garden party this year as well! I'll be wearing an old Whistles dress so there are bound to be others there too! John Lewis hat - I'd better customise it.
Chelsea laughs - James Alexander Sinclair gets a Toasting
Chelsea Press Day and I headed off to see Ann-Marie Powell's garden for the British Heart Foundation whose progress I'd been following on Twitter (@AnnMariePowell). And what do I find? Crowds of press, Ann-Marie and I wearing the same dress and no hiding place! So thanks to Camilla Swift for cap...
Chelsea laughs - James Alexander Sinclair gets a Toasting
Posted Jun 2, 2011 at A Gardening Woman
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