Book Review – The Plant Lover’s Guide to Dahlias
Reading time 6 minutes
“I don’t just like dahlias: I love them” asserts Andy Vernon on the opening page of his new book, The Plant Lover’s Guide to […]
Bulbs
A Drama of Dahlias
Reading time 8 minutes
As far as I am aware, and please enlighten me should I be mistaken, there is not a collective noun for a group of […]
Daily Flower Candy: Dahlia ‘Firepot’
Reading time 3 minutes
If ever a dahlia deserved the classification ‘waterlily’, describing the shape of the blooms, it’s Dahlia ‘Firepot’. The juicy-fruit colours might have given Monet […]
The Watch House NGS Open Weekend 2014
Reading time 10 minutes
It was about this time last year when our friend Beth began twisting our arm to open for the National Gardens Scheme. We took […]
Daily Flower Candy: Dahlia ‘American Dawn’
Reading time 2 minutes
It’s no good, I tried to hold back, but I just had to share this ravishing new dahlia which has started to bloom at […]
Daily Flower Candy: Zantedeschia ‘Picasso’
Reading time 3 minutes
I have always rather shunned the colourful, smaller cousins of the Ethiopian lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica, mainly because of their artificial looks and regular, cellophane-wrapped […]
The Watch House Awaits….
Reading time 17 minutes
In just less than two weeks, we open our garden at The Watch House in Broadstairs for the National Gardens Scheme. It has not been […]
Old Bladbean Stud, Elham, Kent
Reading time 10 minutes
Joyful and life affirming is how I’d describe the garden at Old Bladbean Stud. Hidden among the labyrinthine lanes of South East Kent, owner […]
Daily Flower Candy: Lilium ‘Pink Flavour’
Reading time 2 minutes
I have a new favourite lily and it’s called ‘Pink Flavour’. The bulbs were an impulse, end of season purchase from Sarah Raven and […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2014 – My Top 10 Plants
Reading time 11 minutes
Despite the inevitable fuss over the show gardens, the highlight of my visit to Chelsea Flower Show is always the Great Pavilion. At 12,000 square […]
A Green Moment
Reading time 5 minutes
The British Isles are defined by the colour green. It should really be represented on our national flag, or at the least extolled by our national […]
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 […]