RHS London Orchid Show & Plant Fair 2018
Reading time 10 minutes
Orchids are extraordinary flowers. They display remarkable diversity in colour, size and form. Some are scented, some are designed to entrap insects and few, […]
Foliage
The Late Late April Show
Reading time 7 minutes
Spring is arriving in slow motion at The Watch House. I’ve been watching a single bud of Narcissus ‘Golden Ducat’ striving to open for […]
10 Easy Flowering Bulbs to Plant For Summer Colour
Reading time 21 minutes
There are few plants as rewarding and foolproof to grow as those that sprout from bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes. Among their number […]
Living in the Moment
Reading time 7 minutes
The changing of the clocks makes an enormous difference to my enjoyment of the garden. Although the mornings have temporarily descended back into […]
Cold Front
Reading time 5 minutes
Hold the front page, the Beast from the East is not quite done with us yet. On Saturday we’re due to plunge back into […]
Daily Flower Candy: Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’
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Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’: winter-flowering cherry, rosebud cherry January can be a debilitating month, all dark, dreary and joyless. When I think of […]
Story of Flowers – Azuma Makoto
Reading time 4 minutes
If you have delved into my essential reading list, you will already know that I find the work of floral artist Azuma Makoto […]
Daily Flower Candy: Polygala myrtifolia
Reading time 5 minutes
Polygala myrtifolia: myrtle-leaf milkwort, September bush, Augustusbossie At the end of the summer I often buy plants to plug gaps in the garden, […]
Spick and Span
Reading time 5 minutes
“Every day is a fresh beginning, Listen my soul to the glad refrain. And, spite of old sorrows And older sinning, Troubles forecasted And […]
A Potting Shed Christmas
Reading time 7 minutes
If you’ve not put two and two together yet, I’ll let you into a little secret: when I am not writing this blog […]
When The Wind Blows
Reading time 10 minutes
I am not a cold person, temperature or temperament wise, but when the wind blows from the north, as it did this weekend, I […]
Preparing The Watch House for Winter
Reading time 6 minutes
When I left my garden, in early October, it was still a summer garden. By the time I returned, at the end of […]