Chelsea 2013: Kevock Garden Plants, Midlothian
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Kevock Garden Plants have staged one of the most exciting exhibits at this year’s show, featuring cascades of Trillium, Meconopsis, Primula and Glaucidum. If […]
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Daily Flower Candy: Erythronium ‘Pagoda’
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Dog’s tooth violets, toad lilies, call them what you will, starry flowered erythroniums lend a touch of the exotic to spring meadows and woodlands. […]
Daily Flower Candy: Hyacinthoides non-scripta
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Bluebells are as much part of the English spring tapestry as daffodils, cow parsley and wild cherry blossom. They are much loved for their […]
Daily Flower Candy: Tulipa batalinii ‘Bronze Charm’
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Diminutive Tulipa batalinii is native to Central Asia, where it grows on stony hillsides. Tulipa batalinii ‘Bronze Charm’ is one of many pretty named […]
Daily Flower Candy: The Eden Project
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Our last visit to The Eden Project in Cornwall was in spring 2011. Here, a dappled river of forget-me-nots and dog’s-tooth violets (Erythronium ‘Pagoda’) […]
Saltwood Castle, Hythe, Kent
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The far south east corner of Kent is frequently overlooked, regarded by many as nothing more than the down-at-heel gateway to the delights of […]
The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park.
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Lysichiton camtschatcensis, The Western Skunk Cabbage. Last weekend the sun came out. For those of you who are not British, sunny weather, even when […]
Daily Flower Candy: Tulips ‘Purissima’ and ‘Orange Emperor’
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Every year I experiment with tulips in different colour combinations. Last year it was fiery orange ‘Princesse Irene’ and inky purple ‘Recreado’, this year […]
Daily Flower Candy: Fritillaria ‘William Rex’
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Sound the fanfare, here he is, His Majesty William Rex, King of the Spring. After a disappointing year last year, when all my bulbs […]
Flowering Now: Erythronium revolutum
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This wonderful moment in spring, when the sun shines and before the leaves appear on the trees, is the time when carpets of flowers […]
Let the Show Begin!
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After almost four weeks away from our coastal garden I am back in the driving seat. For a fleeting moment this morning it felt […]
Flowers of Bhutan – Arisaema nepenthoides
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Bhutan’s forests may bear a passing similarity to the great gardens of Cornwall, but you know you’re somewhere exotic when the forest floor is […]