Premature Paperwhites
Reading time 2 minutes
What is it with me and Paperwhite Narcissi? For the umpteenth year running the flowers are out, in all their beautifully perfumed glory, a good […]
Container gardening
Classy Clivia
Reading time 3 minutes
A few years back my partner’s mother gave us an offset of one of the many clivias that bask in her front porch. The […]
Under the Acacias
Reading time 7 minutes
Mingalaba! (That’s Hello! In Burmese) The first week of our trip to Burma has been non stop, so despite being in one of the […]
Planting Spring Bulbs in Containers
Reading time 10 minutes
It’s now or never for me in terms of planting spring-flowering bulbs. As with most things in gardening there is the text book time […]
Coming in from the cold
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With the first properly cold weather now on the horizon, a small gardener’s conundrum is what to save from the frost and what to […]
Pothead Bulbs
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Right on cue, the lovely people from Avon Bulbs delivered my order yesterday – a box packed with lilies, tulips, crocuses, Narcissus, Iris, and Alliums. With […]
Summer’s Fiery Finale
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Coming out of the tube station after work tonight it was already getting dark. It was just 7.30pm, a sure sign that summer is […]
Agapanthus – The Pride of Africa
Reading time 8 minutes
Agapanthus is the signature plant in our coastal garden and deservedly so. We grow Agapanthus africanus, the largest of the family, hailing from the Cape […]
Tintinhull, Somerset – A Formal Garden, Informally Planted
Reading time 8 minutes
For many British garden buffs, Tintinhull needs little introduction. Nestling deep in the Somerset countryside this “small” garden (just less than 2 acres) is […]
A Moment of Drought
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Some things are just not meant to be. I set off, already late, to visit Eltham Palace. Once the home of the Courtaulds this […]
A Summer Stroll to Hampstead
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For the first time this year, London swelters under hot sunny skies. We took a walk from our home in Highgate across the Heath […]
A Touch of Ginger
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Bringing a touch of the tropics to our garden this summer are two members of the ginger family – Hedychium densiflorum “Stephen” and Cautleya […]