Cancer unit bike ride 
Saturday, June 13, 2009, 09:32 AM
Posted by Jane Owen
Completed the cycle ride round Oxford to raise money for the Jane Ashley cancer unit. Very easy to donate: www.justgiving.com/isiscyclists. OK, not very challenging ride. 13 miles. Except that we were led but someone who is having her final chemo session today. What a star.
This is such a great cause.

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Monkey 
Friday, June 5, 2009, 11:35 AM
Posted by Jane Owen
So the Garden Monkey has an infallible Champagne Tracker Device too - just like the Hort Week team. Why wasn't s/he at the Future Gardens Laurent-Perrier trough yesterday? Maybe s/he was.

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Future Gardens 
Friday, June 5, 2009, 11:17 AM
Posted by Jane Owen

Tony Heywood's thing. Some people were comparing it to Niki de Saint Phalle's stuff. No way.


Bruno Marmiroli's tree through coal.Followed by: classic Ivan Hicks; golden dog turds (odd, even for FG);sitting hole in Hugo Bugg & Maren Hallenga's modestly named Narratives of Nature; Peter Thomas' Metamorphosis and the beehive bogs.



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Garden History Society bash at the Geffrye Museum 
Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 09:35 AM
Posted by Jane Owen
Il Presidente Dominic demonstrating the Mexican Cough.
2 The Hort Week mob proving that their Champagne Tracker Device is infallible.
3 Matthew Appleby shortly before he throttled Bob Sherman to get Garden Organic's Guru to spill the Green beans.
4 Nice gate
5 The world's only ugly Regency feature: a Gardenesque Mound as invented by poor, boring, worthy old John Loudon who died standing up while dictating his latest book.
6 Rosa Mundi, swoon.
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Cardinal Vaughan 
Monday, June 1, 2009, 10:04 PM
Posted by Jane Owen

The Cardinal reminds me of Blake's Sick Rose picture

Not that this tree peony star he is sick. He started waving his finery around just before Chelsea after six years twiddling his thumbs and refusing to flower much despite sitting in a pot of my finest Chateau Owen compost.


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