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Walter believed in manuring with a very generous hand and woe betide any little plant of mine that grew nearby, as it would surely die of suffocation under the great gallops of manure that were plastered round every rose. All the manure we could get was devoted to the roses and dahlias.

— Margery Fish We Made a Garden (1956)

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Stock Exchange holidays—the 1st of May and 1st of November—were our aim for the ceremonies of planting and lifting the dahlias.

We Made a Garden (1956)

If the flower spikes are kept cut the bronze-leaved plantain makes good cover because the roots are strong and the beetroot-colored leaves quite big. The plants should be put fairly close together and soon colonise if all the spikes are not removed very quickly.

All the wood ash from my open fires is shared among the plants that particularly like potash, magnolias and irises particularly, and I give some to the raspberries, and in the winter the apple trees get their share. When I grew potatoes and tomatoes they, too, were lucky.

We Made a Garden (1956)

There are some roses that always flower late, not just in a freak year. I always enjoy November roses, whether it is 'Madame Abel Chatenay', that wreathes the dining-room window, or 'Zephrine Drouin', who pops up from behind the barton wall at a time when I thought all good roses had gone to sleep.

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