Daily Flower Candy – Leptospermum scoparium ‘Coral Candy’
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What is marvellous about gardening is that one is always discovering new things. Last weekend I spotted this pretty Leptospermum, flowering its socks off […]
The Frustrated Gardener
Aeonium Envy
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I have loved a great many aeoniums, and lost a few too. Not to frost, which is is their main enemy in UK gardens, […]
Daily Flower Candy: Petasites fragrans (Winter Heliotrope)
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Our flying visit to Cornwall was punctuated by heavy showers and sunny spells. Farmland around St Agnes was sodden, little tin streams swollen and […]
Daily Flower Candy: Narcissus ‘Soleil d’Or’
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I am used to grim weather on my birthday, but today’s meteorological maelstrom has been especially miserable. Yet out in the Atlantic on the […]
New Year’s Resolutions
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It was with some trepidation that I searched this blog for my last batch of New Year’s resolutions. Naturally I have been observing them […]
Daily Flower Candy: Hippeastrum (Amaryllis)
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They are big, brash, uncompromising flowers, but I love them. Hailing from South America, Hippeastrums are often confused with their South African cousins the Amaryllis. […]
Terminating The High Line
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Back in the mid 1990’s when I turned my back on a career as a Landscape Architect, it was partly because of a lack […]
Daily Flower Candy: Geranium maderense
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The last plant I expected to be blooming over the New Year was Geranium maderense, the Maderia Cranesbill. Clearly confused, a few shocking-pink flowers […]
New Beginnings
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Last night my sister Katherine gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, so today I am a very proud and excited uncle. Until now […]
Daily Flower Candy: Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
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Whilst the wretched winter weather continues to dowse and drown us, there are signs of spring in the garden if one looks hard enough […]
The Very Best of 2013 – A Year In Pictures
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When I wrote my equivalent post this time last year, I thought 2012 was a momentous year, but reflecting on 2013 I find the last twelve […]
Tidal Textures
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Today was a perfect winter’s day – calm, bright and cloudless. The sky was the blue of a pair of well worn jeans, the […]