Sowing the seed for 2013
Reading time 6 minutes
My introduction to gardening was through the pages of seed catalogues. As a young child I could sit for hours looking through the pages […]
Flowers
Classy Clivia
Reading time 3 minutes
A few years back my partner’s mother gave us an offset of one of the many clivias that bask in her front porch. The […]
Marvellous Mahonia
Reading time 4 minutes
As Christmas approaches, I’m finding it increasingly hard to find time for the garden and even the faithful iPad’s becoming something of a stranger. […]
Down to earth with a bump
Reading time 3 minutes
So, here we are. Mid November and just 40 days until Christmas. Despite my working life revolving around the festive season, I can feel […]
National Kandawgyi Gardens, Pyin Oo Lwin, Burma
Reading time 9 minutes
As we progress around Burma, attended to like two little kings (which always makes me feel rather uncomfortable) I am continuing to persist with […]
The Road to Mandalay – All Aboard the Chrysanthemum Express!
Reading time 5 minutes
On the road to Mandalay, from the hill town of Pyin Oo Lwin, is Mandalay’s morning flower market. If, like us, you were expecting […]
Under the Acacias
Reading time 7 minutes
Mingalaba! (That’s Hello! In Burmese) The first week of our trip to Burma has been non stop, so despite being in one of the […]
Back to the Future – Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Reading time 9 minutes
I’ve seen the future …. and it’s kind of strange! There’s been lots in the UK travel press about the development of Gardens by […]
Jobs for October and Early November
Reading time 11 minutes
I always think good gardening calls for a certain type of ruthlessness. Never is that quality more needed than at this time of year […]
Planting Spring Bulbs in Containers
Reading time 10 minutes
It’s now or never for me in terms of planting spring-flowering bulbs. As with most things in gardening there is the text book time […]
Autumn Reading
Reading time 6 minutes
This week has been incredibly busy for The Frustrated Gardener, leaving little time for anything other than work. This morning I made a quick […]
Coming in from the cold
Reading time 6 minutes
With the first properly cold weather now on the horizon, a small gardener’s conundrum is what to save from the frost and what to […]