< Previous20 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY Along with the construction of gardens, we also offer a garden design service. Although there are many computer systems that enable you to design a garden, all our designs are hand drawn. When we design a garden, we do it with the client’s budget in mind, along with their wish list. Following a garden survey, we use our expertise to ensure that the space is designed so that it can optimise its potential. There are several things that we consider while the design is on the drawing board, with one of them being balance. Everything that is placed in a design will carry a certain visual weight with it. A focal point can be useful to draw the eye to a certain part of your garden, however everything around it is just as important. The focal point will provide the emphasis of the design, but you also need to ensure that the other elements balance out the garden to ensure that the scale and proportion of the garden is right. If you are thinking of having your garden re-designed, then research is important. Have a look online at a variety of ideas and visit garden centres to get inspiration. The wish list of a client is important as we are designing the garden for them. If our clients give us as much information on what they would like this can help with the overall design process. It is important however that our clients are realistic about what they can achieve, and part of our job is to ensure that their expectations are managed, for example a client may want a specific type and size of paving however their budget may not stretch to it. Also, their garden may not be big enough to accommodate all the things they want. We will work with a client to ensure that their budget is proportionate to their wish list. We will always have alternative ideas that will fall within financial and plot size limitations. The planting is usually the final part of the construction of a garden. Therefore, while it is useful to know which types and colours of flora and foliage a client likes this can be considered and agreed near the end of the build phase. Sometimes once the garden is nearing completion the planting that the client originally wanted changes, for life A design GARDEN ADVICE When you have a specific vision of your garden in mind, but aren’t sure exactly how best to articulate that vision, it’s best to leave the designing to a professional who understands gardens inside and out, as Ed Fuller from Fullers Landscaping explores. 20-21.qxp_Layout 1 26/04/2021 08:31 Page 1LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 21 Specialised Services in Garden Design Landscaping and Tree Maintenance Backed by a highly-skilled and experienced team, we’ve built our reputation on an ability to provide our clients with professional, tailored gardening and forestry solutions FREE NO OBLIGATION QUOTATIONS FULLERS Landscaping Call 01522 868717 or 07867 510544 landscapinglincolnshire@gmail.com www.landscapinglincolnshire.com Around the garden GARDEN ADVICE therefore we don’t always specify the exact planting on our plans. You also need to remember that plants grow. Therefore, to start with it may look sparse however in time the plants will mature and fill the space. The phase ‘less is more’ certainly applies to the planting of a newly constructed garden. As we provide the complete service, both design and construction, it means that we are lucky enough to see the process from start to finish. It is great to get to see our designs on the drawing board come to life in our client’s gardens. It gives us great pride to create bespoke spaces that are enjoyed for many years. • Watch out for last frosts and protect tender plants • Collect rainwater • Earth up potatoes, and plant any still remaining • Plant out summer bedding at the end of the month (unless it is still cold) • Open greenhouse vents and doors on warm days • Feed pond fish regularly • Clip hedges but check for nesting birds first • Lift and divide overcrowded clumps of daffodils and other spring-flowering bulbs • Start planting vegetables for a harvest this year such as asparagus, rhubarb, carrots, cauliflowers, artichokes, brassicas and courgettes • Watch out for viburnum beetle and lily beetle grubs and use natural sprays to control them 20-21.qxp_Layout 1 26/04/2021 08:31 Page 222 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY One important part of our heritage, about which many of us perhaps give little thought, is our legacy of place names. The study of these is known as toponymy. From Celtic beginnings we get the names of some of our rivers, though some of these names may even pre-date those of Celtic origin. (e.g. Ancholme, Welland) but Glen, Lymm and Nene are Celtic examples. From Roman times, and through the periods of Saxon, Danish and Viking invaders and settlers, up to the C11th Domesday Book our place name heritage appears all around us. Often name origins are obvious; for example, Sleaford at the fording point of the River Slea, the “stone” ford at Stamford or the two fords (Wigford and Brayford) at Lincoln. So too are locations with North, South, East or West in their names, as are twin sites such as Little and Great, (the Humby’s) or “High” and Low” (the Toynton’s). Such double- barrelled names are quite common, though the second element of such names will still be of historic significance. The Romans gave us Lincoln from their Lindum Colonia and whilst places such as Ancaster, Caistor and Horncastle have Roman links the “caester” element comes from Old English denoting a Roman settlement. Then there are the Roman roads such as Ermine Street, the Fosse Way and their Fosse Dyke and Car Dyke canals which similarly come from Old English or Norse describing Roman structures. By Saxon times some more familiar features of our place names begin to appear regularly. “Ham”, often combined with a personal or family (group) name, is a homestead or village; Winteringham, Folkingham, Hameringham etc. “Burh” or “burg” is a fortified place; Burgh-on-Bain, Burgh-le-Marsh, Yarburgh. “Ing” (preceded by a personal name) refers to the “place of the people of”. “Mere” or “mer” is a lake or pond. “Tun” or “ton” is an enclosed village (usually following a personal name; e.g. Doddington, Nettleton) but this can also be linked with a description of a local landscape feature such as a hill; Broughton (hill), Leverton (reeds/rushes). “Lang” means “long/straggling”; Langworth, Langton. “Cumb” or “combe” signifies a deep valley; Oxcombe. The Old Norse “ey”, meaning island occurs at Bardney and Southrey for example. Places by rivers such as Burgh-on-Bain, Donington-on- Bain, or Corby Glen are self-explanatory. Brant Broughton was originally the “burnt” village, though now named after the nearby river. Following the Dark Ages and Viking invasions we start getting Old Norse Our heritage is reflected in where we live! We take a look at the origins of our Lincolnshire place names. heritage Lincolnshire explored Binbrook Southrey 22-23.qxp_Layout 1 26/04/2021 08:33 Page 1LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 23 names appearing, the most common of which is the suffix “by” from the Old Danish for a farmstead. There are still many village names ending in “by” especially in the eastern parts of the county and the Wolds. Also, from Old Danish the word “thorp” means an outlying farm or hamlet to a main village or settlement; Thoresthorpe, Tattershall Thorpe, Sausthorpe. A variation of course is that “by” can sometimes mean “near to” as in the Langtons near Wragby and Spilsby. These names also help identify locations to avoid confusion with others of the same name. Some names derive from geographical or landscape features. For example, Wildmore Fen, “Wald” now usually “Wold” (a wooded hill), Swineshead (the source of the Swyne stream) or Hungerton (where poor soil gave rise to hunger). Most place names were well settled by the time William the Conqueror’s Domesday Book was completed in AD1086 but it was written of course with mediaeval spelling. It did however record all Lincolnshire’s settlements with their contemporary names and it is noticeable how little most of them have changed so that they remain recognisable to us today. Incidentally the Lincolnshire county name was “Lincole Scire” in the Domesday Book though it originated to denote an area territory created after the conquest of the Danelaw in the early C10th. Some names refer to local features, as at Halton Holgate; Halton on the “hollow gate” (Norse for road); that is the sunken road down from the hills to the marsh. Wroot derives from the Old English for snout – here signifying a spur of land. References to streams (Old English -brocs) appear at Binbrook and Bolingbroke with local personal names as a prefix; Bynna and Bula in these instances. Then there’s the New (as distinct from “Old”) Bolingbroke. This was part of an ambitious plan for a new township by John Parkinson who famously, and unsuccessfully, tried to develop coal mines at Woodhall in the early 1800’s. His project here failed too! Also, in this category of geographic names comes Bag Enderby where it is thought the “Bag” refers to the shape of the village plan – a “U” shape with a straight line across the top like a bag. (See the OS map.) Places named after events are rare but there is one; Clapgate. This hamlet northeast of Horncastle is said to have been named after the continual “clapping” shut of a farm gate as mounted troops moved through towards the Battle of Winceby in October 1643. Some names are distinctly unusual - unique even! One such is Ashby Puerorum – “of the boys” - where the parish financially supported the choirboys of Lincoln cathedral. And of course, there’s always one that defies explanation even by topomymists. Claxby Pluckacre. The Claxby part is of course the “Klak’s” farmstead but the Pluckacre remains unexplained. And finally, in any Lincolnshire gazetteer the first entry is inevitably Aby; and the last is always Yarburgh! And so, history is passed down to us today in the names of the towns and villages – even streets and roads - where we live as well as in Lincolnshire’s natural features. An authoritative Dictionary of Lincolnshire Place Names is by Kenneth Cameron. (English Place Name Society; 1998.) by Hugh Marrows Oxcombe Caistor AncasterBrayford Pool Lincoln Bag Enderby 22-23.qxp_Layout 1 26/04/2021 08:33 Page 224 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY NEW NORMAL © Shutterstock / faboi new norm Living in the 24-29.qxp_Layout 1 26/04/2021 08:35 Page 1LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 25 NEW NORMAL To say that the last year has been difficult would be a gross understatement. It’s tested us all to the limit and fundamentally changed our entire way of life. As society slowly recovers, it’s no exaggeration to say that we’ll bear the collective trauma for generations to come. But we are coming out the other side, and that is something to be thankful for. We’re currently living in an in-between zone, with an increasing number of freedoms, but we’re not quite out of the woods yet. Yet as we transition out of the third national lockdown, the phrase ‘new normal’ has never been more applicable. Currently, non-essential retailers and care services – such as hairdressers and nail salons – are open once again, libraries have welcomed in readers, and outdoor hospitality venues can open, albeit with table service only. Indoor leisure and sport facilities have also reopened for individual exercise (or with your household or support bubble), and that’s to say nothing of childcare, weddings, holidays and care home visits. Given how fast people have flocked to highstreets the length and breadth of Lincolnshire is testament to how cut off and cast adrift many of us have felt in 2021. After all, many of these facilities had been closed for almost four months straight. But the easing of lockdown has come as a literal lifeline for business owners and their staff. 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