Daily Flower Candy: Lilium martagon ‘Arabian Knight’
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Phew! What a scorcher the weekend was. Whilst I had the right idea on Saturday, spending much of the day at my friend’s […]
Foliage
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The Wedgwood Garden – A Classic Re-imagined
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I can scarcely believe it’s over a week since that fateful press day at Chatsworth Flower Show where we all got drenched and […]
In Praise of Nemesias
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When something you like grows well in your garden it makes sense to grow more of it. I count agapanthus, zantedeschia, trachelospermum and […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: The IQ Quarry Garden
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What is it about the appeal of quarry-inspired gardens this year? Is because as a nation we seem determined to dig ourselves into […]
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017: BlueBell Nursery
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I’ve been to a lot of flower shows and admired a lot of outstanding show stands, so it takes a lot for an […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016-2017: The Morgan Stanley Gardens
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Given the paucity of show gardens at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, I regret not having written more about last year’s crop, which […]
First Light
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For those of you who like to languish in bed in the mornings, I have news for you – it’s getting light by […]
The Merry Month of May
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O THE month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! O, and then […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Chengdu Silk Road Garden
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When I go to the Chelsea Flower Show, I want to see flowers. Whilst in the Great Pavilion this expectation is met in […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Beneath a Mexican Sky
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Ah, the vagaries of the British weather. Last week: wind and torrential rain, this week: clear skies and temperatures in the twenties centigrade. […]
Last Hurrah
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Slowly but surely the petals are falling from my tulips, one by one, leaving skinny seed pods where yesterday hovered fat balloons of […]
In a Tuscan Garden
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My job takes me to all sorts of interesting places, some nice, some not so nice, but always interesting. This week I have […]