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Garden Journal by Susan Shelley

GillM — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:04:26 +0000

Spring is well and truly here in the Northern Hemisphere, and thoughts turn to gardening. The seasons and wonderful fruits of nature are great fodder for your journal. Here, Susan has created a beautiful Garden Journal with photos of flowers from her garden, drawn plans and photographed progress of her vegetable garden.

dahlias from the garden of a “flatting” son brought home to “roost” and the spectacular cardoon.

Rotation garden plans and the garden hoed and marked out.

I had fun making this journal from an old book - just used gesso washes, stamps, fabric paper, and leftover bits of tissue and paper from other projects. My lovely 107 year old villa and the fields surrounding it are my inspiration.

Oh, and if you are wondering how to get incredible blooms like this in January – then I’m afraid you will have to re-locate to New Zealand…

From the journal of Susan Shelley

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Comparative holly by Jeanette yee Sclar – Garden Journal

GillM — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:33:16 +0000

A beautiful winter page from Jeanette’s Garden Journal

“Sometimes, winter is the best time to study the plants in my garden…because I’m officially not working in the garden till February!”

From the journal of Jeanette Yee Sclar
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To Do Lists by Jeanette Yee Sclar and Theresa Hall

GillM — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:40:35 +0000

Even your ‘to do’ list can be made interesting, as Jeanette has shown in her Garden journal

From the garden journal of Jeanette Yee Sclar
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And this page by Theresa Hall. An easy way to make your page more visually interesting even if you think you can’t draw.

To do list in Moleskine Squared Notebook

From the visual journal of Theresa Hall
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Garden Inventory by Jeanette Yee Sclar – Garden Journal

GillM — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:25:25 +0000

You don’t have to restrict yourself to drawing plants in your garden journal – Jeanette has created some beautiful pages from her garden inventory.

“Discouraged by the destructive freezes and constant rain, I was inspired by the written inventory of “Garden Gear at Holkham, 1761″ in Laura Stoddart’s book, “The Sweet Life”. I decided to make a visual inventory of the garden gear at Longears. Here is installment number 1. Let’s hope that the Head Gardener at Longears doesn’t get so busy inventorying that she neglects to actually garden!”

“It was alarmingly hard to choose my favorite trowel; the Trake has long held that distinction, but the trowel I bought at my favorite nursery this spring is really a big improvement on trowels!”

From the Garden Journal of – Jeanette Yee Sclar, Mistress of Longears

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Which herbs by Vicky Williamson – Garden Journal

GillM — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:28:44 +0000

Vicky has drawn some beautiful renditions of herbs in her journal, along with her thoughts about which variety to choose.

“I’ve been playing around with ways to simplify my small garden, freeing up time for art — yet keep the herbs that I love using the most.From the Garden Journal of – Vicky Williamson
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Broccoli by Val Webb – Garden Journal

GillM — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:53:07 +0000

Record the progress of your crops in a Garden Sketchbook

From the garden journal of Val Webb
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