Daily Flower Candy: Pansy ‘Matrix Cassis’
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The candy jar has been rather empty of late, so I am topping it up today with pansy ‘Matrix Cassis’, planted in a pot […]
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Growing Vertical in Victoria
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Victoria, once a grey and unexciting slice of central London sandwiched between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, has been undergoing something of a transformation. […]
Sizzling Cymbidium
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I promised myself an hour or so this afternoon to catch up with a mountain of unread magazines, but typically I’ve ended distracted by […]
Bagging a Bargain
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It’s the time of year when garden centres abandon horticulture for the glittering commercial opportunity that Christmas offers. For gardeners that are prepared to […]
Daily Flower Candy: Hedychium densiflorum ‘Stephen’
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Clearing our borders of tender perennials last weekend, I was surprised to see the earth scattered with what appeared to be large pomegranate seeds. […]
Burmese Days
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Young Boy, Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival, Inle Lake It was exactly one year ago that we were in Burma, enjoying a magical holiday […]
Daily Flower Candy: Kangaroo Apple
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One of my surprise survivors from last year Solanum laciniatum, the Kangaroo Apple, may finally have outgrown its welcome. The plants were bought from […]
Daily Flower Candy: Melinis repens
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Chinese factories are not renowned for their landscaping – a few scrubby trees and sickly pot plants are likely to be the most natural […]
Plant Portraits: Osmanthus fragrans (Guìhuā (桂花) or Sweet Olive)
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It is customary in Hong Kong for 5 star hotels to have a house fragrance, pumped into lobbies in heady clouds and sold at […]
Glorious Goodnestone, Part III: The Walled Garden
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The British love a walled garden: solid, enclosed and often romantic, they are private spaces where a lucky few get to garden and where […]
A Schoolboy Error
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After a night of torrential rain – the kind of deluge that you’d imagine might signal the end of the world – it was […]
Daily Flower Candy: Agapanthus africanus
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Those of you who check in to The Frustrated Gardener regularly will know I’m a big fan of Agapanthus. Our majestic Agapanthus africanus come […]