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 […]
Flowers
Sissinghurst – Fire and Ice
Reading time 7 minutes
By late summer both of our plots have started to run out of puff, so I am always keen to seek out gardens which manage to […]
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
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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 […]
Sissinghurst – Crazy for Colchicums
Reading time 7 minutes
I am guilty, guilty of having twice visited Sissinghurst this year and not having posted anything about it. Had this been any other garden I […]
Book Review – The Plant Lover’s Guide to Dahlias
Reading time 6 minutes
“I don’t just like dahlias: I love them” asserts Andy Vernon on the opening page of his new book, The Plant Lover’s Guide to […]
Double Dutch
Reading time 4 minutes
Earlier this year I was contacted by Kristel Engelen at Dutch gardening magazine ‘Tuinieren’, asking if The Frustrated Gardener would like to be featured on the publication’s ‘online harvest’ page. […]
A Drama of Dahlias
Reading time 8 minutes
As far as I am aware, and please enlighten me should I be mistaken, there is not a collective noun for a group of […]
First Timers
Reading time 6 minutes
The longer one has to wait for something (apart from death, visits from the mother-in-law and tax return forms) the more exciting it is when it […]
Plant Portraits: Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’
Reading time 5 minutes
Succulent plants are not everyone’s cup of tea, but one which attracted a lot of admiring glances when we opened our garden for the […]
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 […]
To Fly Another Day
Reading time 3 minutes
I was in the garden early this morning, the very best time to be out there, enjoying the collared doves’ soft cooing between bursts of raucous squealing from […]