Daily Flower Candy: Pulsatilla vulgaris AGM
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It’s been a heavy week, so I am going to end it with something light and fluffy. These are the silken seedheads of the […]
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Daily Flower Candy: Rhododendron macabeanum AGM
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No, it’s not an exotic ginger or some new discovery from the steamy rainforests of Vietnam, it’s the detail of the bud scales of […]
Daily Flower Candy: Smilacina racemosa AGM
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We’ve been searching for sturdy, shade loving-plants for our London garden, and where better to look than among the flora of North Amercia. Smilacina […]
Daily Flower Candy: Heavenly Hostas
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Having moved on from primulas, my new plant of the moment is the humble hosta. Hostas are one of those precious foliage plants that […]
Daily Flower Candy: Primula japonica ‘Postford White’ AGM
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I’m continuing the water garden theme this week with one of my ‘plants of the moment’, candelabra primulas. I’ve been photographing them in various […]
Daily Flower Candy: Rheum palmatum ‘Red Herald’
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Proving that not all rhubarbs are best stewed and smothered in crumble and custard, Rheum palmatum ‘Red Herald’ put on a tremendous show at […]
Daily Flower Candy: Persicaria bistorta ‘Superba’ AGM
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With flowers like bottle brushes, Persicaria bistorta ‘Superba’ makes a fine herbaceous perennial, flowering over a long period. Persicaria does not like dry soil, […]
Daily Flower Candy: Cow Parsley
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No English country hedgerow or meadow is complete without a misting of delicate, frothy cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris). It emerges from nowhere and disappears […]
Daily Flower Candy: Papaver commutatum ‘Ladybird’
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An annual, Papaver commutatum ‘Ladybird’ is as pretty as a picture and as fleeting as its spotty-winged namesake. With its scarlet flowers and inky […]
Daily Flower Candy: Paulownia tomentosa
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British gardeners will go to any lengths to grow plants that really shouldn’t enjoy our chilly, damp climate. Once such plant is the foxglove […]
Daily Flower Candy: Drimys winteri
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When Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world between 1577 and 1580, the only one of four ships that successfully rounded Cape Horn with […]
Daily Flower Candy: Lilium martagon ‘Tobacco’
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H.W.Hyde & Son was founded in 1926, the year the first woman swam the English Channel. In honour of the 100th Chelsea Flower Show […]