Daily Flower Candy: Viper’s Bugloss
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Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of echiums. I love their jewel-coloured flowers, the way they attract […]
Daily Flower Candy
Daily Flower Candy: Convolvulus sabatius
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Mention the name bindweed and the first thing that springs to mind is one of gardeners’ greatest horrors, hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium). Undoubtedly beautiful in […]
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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Erigeron glaucus (beach aster)
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The recipe for a classic seaside garden is as tried and tested as that for the most British of cakes, a Victoria Sandwich. Take a sheet […]
Spring Flower Candy: Disporum megalanthum
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Our London garden offers few plants their perfect conditions – no surprise when you consider it was once no more than a shady patch of shattered Tarmac with subsoil dumped […]
Spring Flower Candy: Prunus spinosa
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I’ll admit I am a little overdue with this one, but 2015 has been one of the latest I can recall for blackthorn blossom (the flowers of Prunus […]
Spring Flower Candy: Allium ursinum
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Yesterday I sang the praises of an orchid, today I am waxing lyrical about an onion, or a garlic to be precise. Monday’s Spring Flower Candy is […]
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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Chorizema ilicifolium
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Yesterday, after several abortive attempts, I finally managed to drag Him Indoors to Derry Watkins’ Special Plants Nursery at Cold Ashton, near my home […]
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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Canarina canariensis
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Regular readers may already have noticed that I am sucker for a subtropical plant. On a cold Sunday in February, whilst visiting London’s Chelsea Physic Garden, […]