The Magical Landscapes of Disneyland Paris
Reading time 11 minutes
There is something especially delightful about going on a holiday that one hasn’t organised. Perhaps it’s the element of surprise, or the ability […]
evergreens
Daily Flower Candy: Epimedium zhushanense ‘Zhushan Fairy Wings’
Reading time 3 minutes
I’ve reached that point in the year when the number of posts I have time to write is overtaken by the number of […]
Waste not, want not
Reading time 6 minutes
I don’t have many dislikes. Of those I do, chief among them is waste. Rather ambitiously, one might say naively, I spent £300 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Vigorous Vincas
Reading time 5 minutes
Vinca: periwinkle First, a health warning: periwinkles, especially the kind that appreciate the British climate, can be complete thugs. Just this weekend I spotted a quarter-acre […]
Daily Flower Candy: Euonymus japonicus
Reading time 4 minutes
Euonymus japonicus: evergreen spindle, Japanese spindle On days like these, when we’d all rather be indoors, wrapped in a blanket with a glass of […]
Bravery
Reading time 6 minutes
I had ideas about going to the Great Dixter Spring Plant Fair this weekend, but it dawned on me that I should spend more time […]
Daily Flower Candies: Helleborus foetidus & Iris foetidissima
Reading time 2 minutes
One might consider it wise to steer well clear of any plant with a latin name ending foetidus or foetidissima. After all the epithet means […]
Daily Flower Candy: Sarcococca ruscifolia
Reading time 1 minute
Venturing out of the terrace doors this morning I am hit, full frontal, by the scent of Christmas Box, Sarcococca ruscifolia. The fragrance coming […]
Exceptional Evergreens for Coastal Gardens
Reading time 7 minutes
It’s in the depths of winter, when the wind roars in from the east, that I’m reminded of the value of good evergreen trees […]
Strange Fruit
Reading time 4 minutes
After 3 weeks of part self, part snow-induced exile, I returned to the seaside last night during an icy gale that would’ve had an […]