Daily Flower Candy: Grevillea victoriae
Reading time 4 minutes
Just when you think the plant world has no more surprises in store for you (a silly thing to suppose anyway), along comes a […]
Foliage
Daily Flower Candy: Fuchsia magellanica var. gracilis AGM
Reading time 2 minutes
Few plants hold their flowers as gracefully as fuchsias. Whether large or small flowered, the blooms typically tremble at the end of fine wiry stems. […]
Picturesque Perfect: Hotel Endsleigh, Devon
Reading time 17 minutes
‘A Cottage’ is how Georgina, sixth Duchess of Bedford, described her country home at Endsleigh in Devon. Most visitors today, whether to the garden […]
Top Tips: Preparing Your Garden for a Summer Holiday
Reading time 10 minutes
The school summer break is over and the kids are back for the autumn term, which means it must be time to take our holidays. […]
Sissinghurst – Fire and Ice
Reading time 7 minutes
By late summer both of our plots have started to run out of puff, so I am always keen to seek out gardens which manage to […]
Daily Flower Candy: Amaryllis belladonna
Reading time 2 minutes
Whether it’s candy floss, baby, lipstick or rose, when it comes to autumn flowering bulbs, shades of pink are decidedly de rigueur. Right now there […]
Daily Flower Candy: Phytolacca polyandra
Reading time 2 minutes
One of the joys of writing this blog is having the incentive to seek out and learn about new plants. Today, on a training course […]
Sissinghurst – Crazy for Colchicums
Reading time 7 minutes
I am guilty, guilty of having twice visited Sissinghurst this year and not having posted anything about it. Had this been any other garden I […]
A Drama of Dahlias
Reading time 8 minutes
As far as I am aware, and please enlighten me should I be mistaken, there is not a collective noun for a group of […]
First Timers
Reading time 6 minutes
The longer one has to wait for something (apart from death, visits from the mother-in-law and tax return forms) the more exciting it is when it […]
Plant Portraits: Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’
Reading time 5 minutes
Succulent plants are not everyone’s cup of tea, but one which attracted a lot of admiring glances when we opened our garden for the […]
Dazzling Dixter
Reading time 11 minutes
Having been utterly engrossed in our own garden for the last few weeks it was a relief to get out and about and start the […]