Flowers

Daily Flower Candy: Paphiopedilum rothschildianum

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Looking for all the world like neatly groomed Victorian moustaches, these eccentric flowers belong to Paphiopedilum rothschildianum, Rothschild’s slipper orchid.  They seem a fitting […]

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Longstock Park Water Garden, Hampshire

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The River Test in Hampshire is one of the world’s finest chalk streams, renowned for the quality of its dry fly fishing. I am […]

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Daily Flower Candy: Cow Parsley

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No English country hedgerow or meadow is complete without a misting of delicate, frothy cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris). It emerges from nowhere and disappears […]

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Houghton Lodge Gardens, Hampshire

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It came as no great surprise to learn that Houghton Lodge was once voted one of the most desirable houses in England. A letter […]

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Daily Flower Candy: Paulownia tomentosa

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British gardeners will go to any lengths to grow plants that really shouldn’t enjoy our chilly, damp climate. Once such plant is the foxglove […]

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Daily Flower Candy: Cercis siliquastrum

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Pictured here outside Winchester City Mill, Cercis siliquastrum, makes an arresting sight. Despite its oriental good looks, C. siliquastrum hails from Southern Europe and […]

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Daily Flower Candy: Drimys winteri

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When Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world between 1577 and 1580, the only one of four ships that successfully rounded Cape Horn with […]

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