Your Garden In October
Reading time 35 minutes
October can be glorious or ghastly, depending on how the weather gods are feeling. I recall travelling to Delhi in October 2011 and the […]
Cornwall
Time Out At Trengwainton
Reading time 18 minutes
How time flies! I was just contemplating whether or not it was too soon to write another post about one of my favourite Cornish […]
Dahlia Disaster Averted – The National Dahlia Collection Finds A New Home
Reading time 5 minutes
When the National Dahlia Collection announced its closure in September 2020 The Beau and I were bereft. This little patch of dahlia heaven was […]
Teeming Down at Tremenheere
Reading time 10 minutes
Anyone who has spent time holidaying in Cornwall will know that the county’s weather can be relied upon to dictate your itinerary from start […]
Discovering Daffodils
Reading time 11 minutes
It’s a little known fact – so little known that one might almost call it a secret – that the first job I ever […]
The House by the Lane
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‘Chyanvounder’: ‘Chy’ meaning house and ‘vounder’ meaning lane in the Cornish language. We have made three attempts to visit Cornwall this year. The first […]
Getting Away From It All
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Like many folk, we’ve barely spent a night away from home since the New Year. I love The Watch House with all my heart, […]
Tremenheere Treats
Reading time 11 minutes
We were all set to go to the rare plant fair at Tregrehan in Cornwall last Sunday. My train was booked months ago, the […]
Morrab Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall
Reading time 11 minutes
March can be a wild and windy month, especially in the far south-west of Cornwall. So it was that we turned up at Trewidden […]
Magnolia × veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’
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My ‘proper’ camera, a now rather dated DSLR, has been in a cupboard since September. I know it takes better photographs than an iPhone, […]
Violet Time
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One of the many frustrations of having flu is that everything tastes and smells odd. Apparently viral particles linger longer in the nose and […]
New Plants On The Block: Impatiens balansae and Entelea arborescens
Reading time 7 minutes
Followers of The Frustrated Gardener will already know that I am an inveterate plant collector. If I’ve not seen or heard of a plant […]