Daily Flower Candy: Cercis siliquastrum
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Pictured here outside Winchester City Mill, Cercis siliquastrum, makes an arresting sight. Despite its oriental good looks, C. siliquastrum hails from Southern Europe and […]
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Daily Flower Candy: Drimys winteri
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When Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world between 1577 and 1580, the only one of four ships that successfully rounded Cape Horn with […]
Daily Flower Candy: Lilium martagon ‘Tobacco’
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H.W.Hyde & Son was founded in 1926, the year the first woman swam the English Channel. In honour of the 100th Chelsea Flower Show […]
Chelsea 2013: My Top Ten Plants
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At a show on the scale of Chelsea picking out just ten plants which really get you excited is a tough job. Every year […]
Daily Flower Candy: Lupins
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What everyone expects from Chelsea is massed displays of single flower types. Be it alliums, sweet peas, delphiniums or chrysanthemums, banks of mint-condition blooms […]
Chelsea 2013: The Arthritis Research UK Garden
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As the clock ticked around to 8pm on Wednesday evening, we finally reached the Arthritis Research UK Garden, winner of a gold medal and […]
A Bounty of Irises
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I don’t have anywhere suitable in my garden for bearded irises, but when grown well, as here, they are glorious harbingers of summer. Well […]
Daily Flower Candy: Cypripedium ‘Kentucky Maxi’
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This year’s Chelsea Flower Show was awash with lady’s slipper orchids, or cypripediums. There are some 65 species of cypripediums, all found within the […]
Daily Flower Candy: Fritillaria imperialis ‘Garland Star’
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Much excitement at Chelsea as I came face to face with a brand new Fritillaria named ‘Garland Star’. Regular followers will know I’ve pledged […]
Chelsea 2013: The M&G Centenary Garden ‘Windows Through Time’
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Of all this year’s Chelsea gardens, Roger Platt’s design for the main sponsor, M&G Investments, is easy to love. Some may describe it as […]
Chelsea 2013: Kevock Garden Plants, Midlothian
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Kevock Garden Plants have staged one of the most exciting exhibits at this year’s show, featuring cascades of Trillium, Meconopsis, Primula and Glaucidum. If […]
Chelsea 2013: East Village Garden Snapshot
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I suspected it may be among my favourite show gardens, and it is. Not least because, unlike some of its peers, most of the […]