Chelsea Flower Show 2016 Preview: Royal Bank of Canada Garden
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This will be my final post before the lucky few (who include HM The Queen, but not me this year) are granted early admittance […]
Flower Shows
Chelsea Flower Show 2016 Preview: The Winton Beauty of Mathematics Garden
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The more I explore what’s in store at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, the more excited I get. On reflection I was disappointed by […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016 Preview: The Cloudy Bay Garden
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In just 11 days the Chelsea Flower Show will fling open its gates to an expectant crowd of RHS members and their guests. Until […]
RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair 2016
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The first rule of visiting a flower show is not to go on the last day, unless you’re hoping to bag a bargain. The […]
Daily Flower Candy: Iris histrioides ‘George’ AGM
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I don’t know about you, but my green fingers fail me when it comes to keeping early spring irises flowering from one season to […]
The Very Best of 2015 – A Year in Pictures
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The moment I sit down to write my review of the year my mind goes completely blank. How do I sum up the year […]
RHS Autumn Harvest Festival Show 2015
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I always write my post about the RHS Autumn Harvest Festival Show will a tinge of sadness, as it falls just a few days […]
An Eye for Irises
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It’s a case of eat, sleep, work and repeat this week. The weekend cannot arrive soon enough. Considering what to write about tonight I realised […]
Jolly Hollyhocks
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Long standing followers of The Frustrated Gardener will know that I have something of a crush on hollyhocks (Alcea). So it was no surprise […]
“Some Like it Hot …
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….. and others do not. I am one of the others.” The Frustrated Gardener, July 2015 Visiting Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 35 […]
Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2015: Design Heaven or Style Circus?
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Just two days to go until the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show opens to the public and I’ve finally had five minutes to see […]
GROW London 2015
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A post about GROW London, the capital’s newest, freshest garden show, is one of the many that never found its way out of my […]