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 […]
Container gardening
Geranium maderense vs Geranium palmatum
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Three years ago when I started The Frustrated Gardener this was my first ‘proper’ post. For some reason it has gone on to be […]
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 […]
Enchanted April
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It really has been the most remarkable April. So far not a single drop of rain has fallen on either of our gardens and, […]
Daily Flower Candy: Narcissus ‘Toto’ AGM
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When I set out to post daily on the subject of daffodils, little did I know how distracting this week’s almost perfect gardening weather would […]
Daily Flower Candy: Narcissus tazetta ‘Cragford’
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Daffodils are a wonderfully diverse group of bulbs thanks to years of careful hybridisation and selection. A scion of the narcissus family that is […]
Daffodil Week: Symbols of Easter
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Happy Easter one and all! For the whole of Easter week I will be writing about the most lauded of spring flowers, the daffodil. […]
Slow Motion
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Since the first balmy weekend in March I have watched both our gardens move forward as if in slow motion. Temperatures have remained resolutely low, bringing to […]
Daily Flower Candy: Dutch Crocus (Crocus vernus)
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The groundflame of the crocus breaks the mould, Fair Spring slides hither o’er the Southern sea, Wavers on her thin stem the snowdrop cold […]
Daily Flower Candy: Iris reticulata ‘Blue Note’
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I adore irises. Their blooms recall the style and elegance of days gone by and appear throughout the spring and summer, starting in early […]
Daily Flower Candy: Iris reticulata ‘Spot On’
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As I predicted exactly two weeks ago, the latest bulb to start flowering in our coastal garden is Iris reticulata ‘Spot On’, a new […]
Snowdrop Week: Japanese Kokedama
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If they didn’t literally smack you full in the face, the sheer ingenuity of the hanging snowdrop decorations at the Chelsea Physic Garden last […]