Daily Flower Candy: Grevillea victoriae
Reading time 4 minutes
Just when you think the plant world has no more surprises in store for you (a silly thing to suppose anyway), along comes a […]
Daily Flower Candy
Daily Flower Candy: Fuchsia magellanica var. gracilis AGM
Reading time 2 minutes
Few plants hold their flowers as gracefully as fuchsias. Whether large or small flowered, the blooms typically tremble at the end of fine wiry stems. […]
Daily Flower Candy: Begonia ‘Glowing Embers’
Reading time 2 minutes
Begonias are such stalwarts of the summer garden that they are often overlooked, even sniffed at, by so-called fashionable gardeners. I’m not attracted by […]
Daily Flower Candy: Amaryllis belladonna
Reading time 2 minutes
Whether it’s candy floss, baby, lipstick or rose, when it comes to autumn flowering bulbs, shades of pink are decidedly de rigueur. Right now there […]
Daily Flower Candy: Phytolacca polyandra
Reading time 2 minutes
One of the joys of writing this blog is having the incentive to seek out and learn about new plants. Today, on a training course […]
Daily Flower Candy: Dahlia ‘Firepot’
Reading time 3 minutes
If ever a dahlia deserved the classification ‘waterlily’, describing the shape of the blooms, it’s Dahlia ‘Firepot’. The juicy-fruit colours might have given Monet […]
Daily Flower Candy: Dahlia ‘American Dawn’
Reading time 2 minutes
It’s no good, I tried to hold back, but I just had to share this ravishing new dahlia which has started to bloom at […]
Daily Flower Candy: Zantedeschia ‘Picasso’
Reading time 3 minutes
I have always rather shunned the colourful, smaller cousins of the Ethiopian lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica, mainly because of their artificial looks and regular, cellophane-wrapped […]
Daily Flower Candy – Campanula lactiflora
Reading time 3 minutes
I have been a little quiet of late and that’s for three reasons. The first is work, which has been abnormally busy. The second […]
Daily Flower Candy: Lilium ‘Pink Flavour’
Reading time 2 minutes
I have a new favourite lily and it’s called ‘Pink Flavour’. The bulbs were an impulse, end of season purchase from Sarah Raven and […]
Daily Flower Candy: Lotus berthelotii
Reading time 3 minutes
In case you haven’t noticed I am a sucker for anything colourful, exotic and expensive looking. This goes for food, cocktails, shirts, wallpaper and […]
Daily Flower Candy: Crataegus monogyna
Reading time 3 minutes
Three cheers for the May Day Bank Holiday. Hip hip, hooray! A Sunday night free of work worries, an extra day in the garden […]