Camellias: Harbingers of Spring
Reading time 9 minutes
Spring arrives a little earlier in Cornwall than elsewhere in England. The far South West is blessed with a mild, maritime climate which ensures […]
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Plant Profile: Passiflora ‘Snow Queen’
Reading time 6 minutes
I purchase the majority of my plants on a whim. Hands up, it’s one of my greatest weaknesses, not to mention greatest expenses. […]
Chelsea Calling
Reading time 14 minutes
It’s going to be a different kind of Chelsea Flower Show for me this year. As is tradition, I shall be there on […]
Cornwall Spring Flower Show 2018
Reading time 8 minutes
As great days out go, I rank a visit to the Cornwall Spring Flower Show up there with Chelsea and Sissinghurst. It’s a special […]
Heligan Harvest
Reading time 9 minutes
I first started visiting The Lost Gardens of Heligan as a student in the very early 1990s. By then the Tremayne family’s forgotten […]
True Blue
Reading time 6 minutes
There is nothing more irritating for a gardener than to strive unsuccessfully to cultivate a plant, only to discover that someone who apparently […]
My Favourite Walk: Chapel Porth Valley, St Agnes
Reading time 12 minutes
I have been walking down and up the valley to Chapel Porth for over forty years. Not continually, of course, but at […]
Daily Flower Candy: Correa ‘Marian’s Marvel’
Reading time 5 minutes
My sweetie jar has been a little empty of late, so I think it’s high time I resumed my occasional Daily Flower Candy series, […]
Rhododendron Rebound
Reading time 8 minutes
Although I’ve never been able to grow them well, rhododendrons have always held a special place in my heart. I grew up visiting […]
Return to Eden
Reading time 10 minutes
It is May 2000 and I am standing in a long line of chattering, excitable people wearing white hard hats. This is not an […]
Tumbledown
Reading time 2 minutes
We are staying at Trevoole, one of our favourite places in Cornwall. And because I am on holiday I can take precious time to […]
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewintered
Reading time 5 minutes
As winter draws to a close, I can sum it up in one word: soggy. Dreams of bracing walks along the beach beneath clear, […]