List of articles
- The Article Section
- Allwoods are celebrated and renown for Carnations and Pinks
- Assistance for Non Members and Visitors to the Site.
- A look at soil for Perpetual Carnations in the greenhouse
- In the Beginning
- Keith Mastaglio Living Diary
- Brian Yates Living Diary
- Plant Pots
- 50 years on
- Is this a sport?
- Brian Yates home page
- Cuttings by Brian Yates
- The International Dianthus Register and Checklist
- Look-alike Laced Pinks
- Early Cuttings
- Carnations - Beginners Guide
- Trailing Carnations
- A smell, a fragrance.
- HOW TO GROW PINKS.
- Hotbox Sulfume
- "Letter from Allwoods"
- Daily Sudoku Puzzle
- Alliance, Ohio, The Carnation City
- Wanted Yearbooks
- Wanted Border Carnations
- Members Own Tips
- Christmas Day Pinks
- A Visit to John Barrington’s Nursery
- Request for help from New Zealand
- Favourite Buttonholes
- Dianthus and Climate Change
- Scented Carnations
- Carnations and Capricorns
- Early recollections of dianthus
- Carnations and Beans by Graham R Davis
- Flowers for the Cutting Garden
- Erin Mitchell
- Gary Hammerton in Spain
- John Lewis Store Peterborough
- Carnation Fever Hits Fashion World
- Cake recipes from the AGM
- Brian Yates does it again!
- Garden News
- evergreen4ever
- Christmas Carnations
- Annual Carnations.
- PF Trials report by Peter Booker
- The Story of the Carnation
- Vandalism of the polytunnel
- The Gardening Apprentice
- Above and beyond the call of duty
- A visit to Eileen Galbally
- Blue Carnations in Hastings
- Breeding new pinks by Sue Russell
- Old Crimson Clove Border WANTED
- Profile of Wallace William Manley
- The Legendary Malmaison
- A Brief Overview Carnations and Pinks
- My Trip to Allwoods by Brian Yates
- My Way With Hormone Rooting Powder
- Valentines Day Carnations
- Calling Dianthus Enthusiasts around Evesham
- Labels
- Carnations a Personal Perspective
Garden News
Peter Booker, chairman of the PF trials committee is writing a series of articles on dianthus for Garden News. This is I believe the first regular column on carnations and pinks in the gardening press for some time and we hope that as well as providing interest for our members it will inspire a whole new generation of dianthus enthusiasts.
The first appears on the 17th January 2007.
I have now got a list of the main subject matter of the first few articles which is as follows:-
February 28th Final potting, pest and disease control.
March 21st Pinks new and old, plus cultural hints.
April 11th Carnations PFs new and old, plus cultural hints
May 2nd Malmaisons plus Show dates.
Peter’s relaxed and chatty style of writing is easy to read but filled with detailed information and advice which will guide the novice and experienced grower alike.
Below is a list of all the dates for the year ahead.
January 17
February 7 and 28
March 21
April 11
May 2 and 23
June 13
July 4 and 25
August 15
September 5 and 26
October 17
November 7 and 28
December 19
January 9 2008
We wish Peter well with this venture!
Of interest to some will be a series of articles in the same paper by Ivor Mace winner of The Daily Mail Gold Cup in 2006 for PF’s. He is writing about chrysanthemums, not such beautiful blooms as dianthus and certainly without the exquisite scent of some of our flowers but never the less quite a popular flower! Joking apart it is very pleasing to see a weekly gardening journal giving such prominance to a wide variety of specialts plants which deserve to be grown much more widely.