All Hail The Tromboncino!
Reading time 6 minutes
Are you bored of your courgettes being blighted by mildew? Are you receptive to the simple amusement of a provocatively proportioned vegetable? Then tromboncinos are for you!
Beautiful Strangers
Teeming Down at Tremenheere
Reading time 10 minutes
Anyone who has spent time holidaying in Cornwall will know that the county’s weather can be relied upon to dictate your itinerary from start […]
Beginning with Brugmansias
Reading time 10 minutes
I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with myself for posting so infrequently. Okay, so I no longer have a long commute to London and I […]
Plant Profile: Salvia leucocephala
Reading time 5 minutes
Late last summer we paid a flying visit to Dyson’s Nurseries at Great Comp near Sevenoaks in Kent. It was all rather unsatisfactory as […]
Growing My Own Tree of Life
Reading time 11 minutes
For the last three summers I have been growing airplants outside in the Jungle Garden. Secured to the branches of a tree in dappled […]
Tremenheere Treats
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We were all set to go to the rare plant fair at Tregrehan in Cornwall last Sunday. My train was booked months ago, the […]
Plant Profile: Strophanthus boivinii
Reading time 8 minutes
I started this blog with a clear personal ambition to preserve what I already knew about plants and to encourage further learning. It was […]
Gardens of Miami No. 1 – The Kampong
Reading time 18 minutes
First of all, thank you for your patience whilst I have been away on holiday and taking a short break from blogging. It’s been […]
Plant Profile: Sophora ‘Sun King’ AGM
Reading time 7 minutes
In June this year I will have been blogging for seven years. I have completely forgotten most of the posts I wrote at the […]
New Plants On The Block: Impatiens balansae and Entelea arborescens
Reading time 7 minutes
Followers of The Frustrated Gardener will already know that I am an inveterate plant collector. If I’ve not seen or heard of a plant […]
My Top 10 Indoor / Outdoor Foliage Plants
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So I forgot. Today’s the day that the London Evening Standard publishes a feature on neon-coloured foliage and I am not even in […]
Plant Profile: Solenostemon ‘Henna’
Reading time 7 minutes
My garden is so jam-packed with plants by early autumn that I can barely move around outside. Far from holding plants back, a […]