My garden is so jam-packed with plants by early autumn that I can barely move around outside. Far from holding plants back, a spell of cooler, duller weather has encouraged exuberant growth and the […]
Category: Beautiful Strangers
Introducing … Scilla peruviana
The adage ‘it takes all sorts’ applies just as accurately to plants as is does to people. Some plants hide their light under a bushel whilst others come out all guns blazing; some are […]
Getting Some Air …. Plants
Inspired by my visit to Steve Edney’s garden at Sweetbriar, where a striped bromeliad sat astride the branches of an old cordyline, I decided to look beyond the terrestrial and think about what I […]
Tales from the Garden Room
“If one is going to tell a story with plants, it may as well be an adventure story.” I love all the rooms in my ‘new’ house: the bedrooms for their modernity, […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Beneath a Mexican Sky
Ah, the vagaries of the British weather. Last week: wind and torrential rain, this week: clear skies and temperatures in the twenties centigrade. I’ve veered from wearing boots and a winter coat to shorts […]
Daily Flower Candy: Asarum delavayi ‘Giant’
Asarum delavayi ‘Giant’*: Giant Wild Ginger, Panda face ginger As an antidote to my post about Vita Sackville-West’s macabre ‘Box of the Dead’ earlier this week, I thought I’d share a happier tale. Regular […]
Running Late
As someone who usually extols the virtues of timeliness, I have been letting myself down rather a lot lately. I planted my spring-flowering bulbs late (some just a fortnight ago) and now I am behind […]
