Daily Flower Candy: Hepatica transsilvanica
Reading time 3 minutes
Just like snowdrops, hepaticas have recently developed something of a cult following in the UK. A fascination with these diminutive members of the buttercup […]
Foliage
Daily Flower Candy: Illicium simonsii
Reading time 2 minutes
Rare, fickle and recommended only for ‘expert’ gardeners, this is Illicium simonsii. It was not a shrub I was familiar with, but its butter-yellow […]
Three New Projects
Reading time 6 minutes
In my current job, holidays are pretty much an impossibility between October and the end of March. The plus side to the inevitable fatigue […]
2014 RHS London Plant and Design Show – Highlights
Reading time 8 minutes
Those of you who look in on The Frustrated Gardener regularly will know that I treasure my little jaunts from my place of work […]
Sea Air and Shopping
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Over the last two days I’ve experienced complete sensory overload. Yesterday’s highlight was the RHS London Plant and Design Show, where I was dazzled […]
Daily Flower Candies: Helleborus foetidus & Iris foetidissima
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One might consider it wise to steer well clear of any plant with a latin name ending foetidus or foetidissima. After all the epithet means […]
Miraculous Mosses
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Along with ducks, umbrella salesmen and water companies, mosses are among the few things enjoying this frightful spell of wet weather. The rain brings […]
Daily Flower Candy: Helleborus argutifolius
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Easy to overlook for half the gardening year, Helleborus argutifolius, the Corsican hellebore, is coming into its own right now. From mounds of jade […]
Daily Flower Candy: Sarcococca ruscifolia
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Venturing out of the terrace doors this morning I am hit, full frontal, by the scent of Christmas Box, Sarcococca ruscifolia. The fragrance coming […]
Daily Flower Candy: Camellia ‘Cornish Spring’
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So often winter flowering shrubs are big on fragrance but lacking in flower power. The likes of Lonicera x purpusii, Viburnum x bodnantense and […]
Aeonium Envy
Reading time 2 minutes
I have loved a great many aeoniums, and lost a few too. Not to frost, which is is their main enemy in UK gardens, […]
Daily Flower Candy: Geranium maderense
Reading time 2 minutes
The last plant I expected to be blooming over the New Year was Geranium maderense, the Maderia Cranesbill. Clearly confused, a few shocking-pink flowers […]