Hide Your Credit Cards: The 2016 Catalogues Have Landed!
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In parallel with the mercury in my thermometer, the spring seed, bulb and plant catalogues are starting to drop, drop, drop onto the doormat. […]
Bulbs
Book Review – 365 Days of Colour in Your Garden
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My initial response to the launch of “365 Days of Colour in Your Garden” at the end of 2015 was to ask myself whether […]
Seeing Snowdrops
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One of my unwritten New Year’s resolutions is to address my southern bias when it comes to writing this blog. As someone who’s never […]
The Very Best of 2015 – A Year in Pictures
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The moment I sit down to write my review of the year my mind goes completely blank. How do I sum up the year […]
Travelling Blues
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That’s it. I have readied both gardens for October, packed my bags and left Him Indoors in charge. I am now on the other […]
Planting a Narrow Border for Spring Colour
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Memories of summer may still linger, but it’s time for us gardeners to be looking forward to next year. There are bulbs to plant, […]
Bella Donnas
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Amaryllis belladonna: Jersey lily, naked lady, belladonna amaryllis We gardeners spend so much time and energy trying to cultivate plants which aren’t 100% […]
Daily Flower Candy: Lilium ‘Scheherezade’
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The number of occasions during the day when I feel I am starting to lose my marbles is increasing steadily, to a point where I […]
Daily Flower Candy: Incarvillea delavayi ‘Snowtop’
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I need more plants like I need a hole in the head. The garden is already bursting at the seams and there’s twelve weeks […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Dream Ticket
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Generally speaking I am not the kind of person who wins lotteries or ballots. I don’t even come out of tombolas or raffles particularly […]
Spring Flower Candy: Allium ursinum
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Yesterday I sang the praises of an orchid, today I am waxing lyrical about an onion, or a garlic to be precise. Monday’s Spring Flower Candy is […]
Spring Flower Candy: Pleione formosana
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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 […]