Daily Flower Candy: Iris reticulata ‘Katherine Hodgkin’
Reading time 2 minutes
Not many plants break the rules when it comes to flower colour. Fewer still manage to do it successfully:’ blue’ roses for example. Just […]
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Daily Flower Candy: Schizostylis ‘Pink Princess’
Reading time 2 minutes
Like a bemused child that has awoken with a start, the blushing, innocent flowers of Schizostylis ‘Pink Princess’ have opened their eyes during the […]
Daily Flower Candy: Helleborus argutifolius
Reading time 1 minute
Easy to overlook for half the gardening year, Helleborus argutifolius, the Corsican hellebore, is coming into its own right now. From mounds of jade […]
Seeing White
Reading time 5 minutes
Perhaps it is just me, but it seems that every gardening publication I open this month is packed with features on snowdrops (Galanthus spp.) and lists […]
Daily Flower Candy: Sarcococca ruscifolia
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Venturing out of the terrace doors this morning I am hit, full frontal, by the scent of Christmas Box, Sarcococca ruscifolia. The fragrance coming […]
Daily Flower Candy: Camellia ‘Cornish Spring’
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So often winter flowering shrubs are big on fragrance but lacking in flower power. The likes of Lonicera x purpusii, Viburnum x bodnantense and […]
Daily Flower Candy – Leptospermum scoparium ‘Coral Candy’
Reading time 4 minutes
What is marvellous about gardening is that one is always discovering new things. Last weekend I spotted this pretty Leptospermum, flowering its socks off […]
Daily Flower Candy: Petasites fragrans (Winter Heliotrope)
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Our flying visit to Cornwall was punctuated by heavy showers and sunny spells. Farmland around St Agnes was sodden, little tin streams swollen and […]
Daily Flower Candy: Narcissus ‘Soleil d’Or’
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I am used to grim weather on my birthday, but today’s meteorological maelstrom has been especially miserable. Yet out in the Atlantic on the […]
New Year’s Resolutions
Reading time 7 minutes
It was with some trepidation that I searched this blog for my last batch of New Year’s resolutions. Naturally I have been observing them […]
Daily Flower Candy: Hippeastrum (Amaryllis)
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They are big, brash, uncompromising flowers, but I love them. Hailing from South America, Hippeastrums are often confused with their South African cousins the Amaryllis. […]
Daily Flower Candy: Geranium maderense
Reading time 2 minutes
The last plant I expected to be blooming over the New Year was Geranium maderense, the Maderia Cranesbill. Clearly confused, a few shocking-pink flowers […]