Bosvigo Hellebore Day 2015
Reading time 5 minutes
It’s been weeks since I last saw our London garden in the daylight. At first glance there is not a lot to behold except […]
Reading time 5 minutes
It’s been weeks since I last saw our London garden in the daylight. At first glance there is not a lot to behold except […]
Reading time 21 minutes
I embark on my review of 2014 with a degree of trepidation, as this year did not turn out to be quite as joyful as […]
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I’ve just come in from the garden, where the temperature has dropped dramatically since lunchtime. A brisk, rain-laden breeze has whipped up, carrying away summer’s last […]
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Before the Second World War kniphofias, better known as red hot pokers, were one of Britain’s most popular garden plants. They sustained gardeners’ Victorian […]
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‘A Cottage’ is how Georgina, sixth Duchess of Bedford, described her country home at Endsleigh in Devon. Most visitors today, whether to the garden […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“I don’t just like dahlias: I love them” asserts Andy Vernon on the opening page of his new book, The Plant Lover’s Guide to […]
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Earlier this year I was contacted by Kristel Engelen at Dutch gardening magazine ‘Tuinieren’, asking if The Frustrated Gardener would like to be featured on the publication’s ‘online harvest’ page. […]
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As far as I am aware, and please enlighten me should I be mistaken, there is not a collective noun for a group of […]
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No, I haven’t quit my job or been given my marching orders, but I have taken a couple of days off to prepare the […]
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