Daily Flower Candy: Ceiba speciosa
Reading time 6 minutes
Ceiba speciosa (formerly Chorisia speciosa): False kapok, floss silk tree, drunken stick, bottle tree We are in Sicily, Palermo to be precise, enjoying the […]
Beautiful Strangers
Agave Agony
Reading time 2 minutes
A sun-soaked stroll along the beach between Broadstairs and Ramsgate, picking up chalk pebbles and gnarled flints, ultimately leads us back to The Italianate Glasshouse […]
Daily Flower Candy: Echium wildpretii
Reading time 3 minutes
Native to the Canary Islands, echiums are sky-rocketing giants of the plant world. But, like an unfortunate child star, they reach their peak early […]
Spring Flower Candy: Disporum megalanthum
Reading time 3 minutes
Our London garden offers few plants their perfect conditions – no surprise when you consider it was once no more than a shady patch of shattered Tarmac with subsoil dumped […]
Spring Flower Candy: Pleione formosana
Reading time 4 minutes
I will be devoting a post to a different spring flower each day this week, and they don’t come much more special than Pleione formosana. I […]
Daily Flower Candy: Chorizema ilicifolium
Reading time 4 minutes
Yesterday, after several abortive attempts, I finally managed to drag Him Indoors to Derry Watkins’ Special Plants Nursery at Cold Ashton, near my home […]
Daily Flower Candy: Smyrnium olusatrum
Reading time 5 minutes
We have much to thank the Romans for – libraries, hot baths, straight roads, aqueducts and stinging nettles among them – but over time […]
Daily Flower Candy: Canarina canariensis
Reading time 3 minutes
Regular readers may already have noticed that I am sucker for a subtropical plant. On a cold Sunday in February, whilst visiting London’s Chelsea Physic Garden, […]
Daily Flower Candy – Cuscuta epithymum
Reading time 2 minutes
If you’ve ever passed a gorse bush on a cliff top or heath and wondered why it’s covered in something resembling a blanket woven […]
Blooming Bosvigo
Reading time 7 minutes
Very little trumps the romanticism of a well-made woodland garden. Lush, informal and unbridled it will capture the heart in its quest to mimic nature. Every […]
Daily Flower Candy: Olearia phloggopappa ‘Combers Pink’
Reading time 2 minutes
Nestled deep in the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, was the location for one of our Christmas photo shoots. It may sound strange, but I live […]
Daily Flower Candy: Hedychium densiflorum ‘Stephen’
Reading time 1 minute
Clearing our borders of tender perennials last weekend, I was surprised to see the earth scattered with what appeared to be large pomegranate seeds. […]