Worried about whether the 2 borrowed ponies were going hungry under the 18" of snow, here's Adam throwing them the tops of the Christmas brussel sprouts.
.....but inside Lawson Park it's spring, thanks to that new-fangled underfloor heating.
The GA Xmas Party on Friday went with a swing, we welcomed interns Ellie, Matt and Sophie back and combined the celebrations with Adam Sutherland's 51st birthday!
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Thanks to Lisa & Sally we have two Exmoor ponies on our
wildflower meadow, eating up all the old grass and flower stems
over the coming weeks.
Our meadow is too steep and wet to cut with machinery, and though
we had a fair bit of fun strimming it en masse a few years ago, we managed to
cut just about a third in 4 days! You soon realise that the
'wildest' bit of your garden could easily be the most
high-maintenance if you do as the books say - which is generally
one or two cuts a year with all the debris removed to minimise soil
improvement (the enemy of the wildflower).
The Cumbria Wildlife Trust gave us some management advice recently which stated that occasional grazing could be an acceptable way of keeping the grasses in check, and as ours is a late-flowering meadow this is the time of year to do it.
Just got to remember to poop scoop regularly!
Topics: 'Exmoor ponies' 'wildflower meadow'
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We are still eating every day from the garden - and picking cut flowers including May-sown sweet peas, scabious and rudbeckia 'Marmalade'. Vegetables still going strong include runner beans, mangetout, broccoli, courgettes (outside and in tunnel) and tomatoes.
Topics: 'harvest vegetables'
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...but spurred on by the patient NGS we announce next year's
National Garden Scheme Open Day here at Lawson
Park - It's Sunday July 18th 2010,
2pm-6pm.
Get it in your diary now....
Topics: 'NGS garden visit'
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...our garden,that is
Much to modest to blog it himself, here is Adam with Lawson Park's first prize winner - a red cabbage grown here in the Paddies, that trounced the competition at the recent Coniston and Torver Garden Club Annual Show.
Other successes included green chillis, herbs, runner beans and a cucumber. Sadly our interns' entries (a Battenburg cake in GA colours and a 'landscape' photo) went down rather poorly with the judges. But we love them anyway...
Throughout the afternoon we served up Toge soup, kimchee and sauerkraut all made from this cabbage's cousins to Show visitors, and it was a great success.
Topics: 'vegetable show'
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is that a prosthetic hand?
Could we have a pic of that cake?
The Director of Tate pictured here with local dignitaries at our opening on July 10th.
Topics: 'Tate'
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Apologies for an extended blog hiatus due to various webby issues plus the distractions of a final massive push on finishing the Lawson Park buildings - but as if by magic (not) the new Grizedale Arts HQ at Lawson Park was opened to the public on June 25th 09, with an opening speech from broadcaster and Cumbria Tourism Chair Eric Robson.
Topics: 'relaunch'
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Perhaps your relaunch will include 1.An illustration of the Japanese kettle Dresser 'copied'- something he advised against.2.The source of your claim that Dresser collected items for the V&A. 3.The source of your claim that Dresser sold his designs from the Japanese town (village surely?)at Muswell Hill. 3.Unless you can provide new evidence, Dresser's signature provided a guarantee of genuineness.4.Evidence that Dresser folowed Morris - my books suggest the exact opposite.
the Japanese visitors identified the kettle as a Japanese design, I have never seen an exact version but there are certainly many illustrations in many of the books on Dresser of almost exact copies of many items, often (if you want to pick nits)in different materials from the original. This seems an odd point to make, what is wrong with copies or versions of, surely that's how culture evolves and has always evolved, versions of things produced by other cultures often drawn from misunderstandings.
The Lawson Park collections entries are not trying to be minutely accurate, the general idea is to make connections and use the material to inspire new ideas and works. If people would like to correct the facts that would be great, your comment doesn't actually tell us anything, not even the title of your book, I would for one be very interested to read about the relationship between Dresser and Morris or indeed Dresser and Ruskin - most people I have asked have said there wasn't any. With regard to the other points I think I will have picked these up from stuff I've read, please do inform us if these are significant errors that make a difference to how Dresser is understood. You can of course use truths to create meaningless nonsense.
The hostel dining room at Lawson Park
Eric Robson opens Lawson Park
Wapke Feenstra & Fernando Dory at the new Honesty Stall
One of the new artist's bedrooms
Lawson Park garden is in the fresh new Yellow Book and featured online here
Topics: 'open garden'
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Pages:
Contributors:
- Adam Sutherland[26]
- Alistair Hudson[1]
- Dorian Moore[1]
- Karen Guthrie[61]
- Lisa Stewart[42]
Topics:
- animals[2]
- Bracken[3]
- Brantwood[2]
- building[15]
- carving[2]
- demolitions[2]
- drainage[2]
- drilling[2]
- garden[12]
- gardener[2]
- grand designs[2]
- ground source heat[6]
- hedgerow[2]
- honesty shop[2]
- Japan[2]
- Kitchen Garden[5]
- Lawson Park[26]
- Lawson Park building[4]
- lighting[2]
- National Garden Scheme[3]
- progress[2]
- raised beds[2]
- roof[3]
- sewage treatment[2]
- slate[2]
- vegetables[3]
- view[2]
- wildflower meadow[3]
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2006
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