Plant Portraits: Helleborus x hybridus ‘Bosvigo Doubles’
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Since returning from Cornwall on Monday it has done nothing but rain. In the short hours between work and sleep I have been revisiting […]
Perennials
Bosvigo Hellebore Day 2014
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When it comes to finding interesting topics for new posts, it can sometimes be a case of feast or famine. Just now, I have […]
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 […]
A Haven for Hellebores
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Plunging down a steep lane at the edge of the cathedral city of Truro, one arrives at Bosvigo. This two acre garden surrounding a […]
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: Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
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Whilst the wretched winter weather continues to dowse and drown us, there are signs of spring in the garden if one looks hard enough […]
The Very Best of 2013 – A Year In Pictures
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When I wrote my equivalent post this time last year, I thought 2012 was a momentous year, but reflecting on 2013 I find the last twelve […]
Daily Flower Candy: Kangaroo Apple
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One of my surprise survivors from last year Solanum laciniatum, the Kangaroo Apple, may finally have outgrown its welcome. The plants were bought from […]
Daily Flower Candy: Eupatorium purpureum
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Need some colour at the back of your herbaceous border in late summer? Then look not further than Eupatorium purpureum, otherwise known as Joe Pye […]
Daily Flower Candy – Echinops ritro ‘White Globe’
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Forming a perfect, filigree sphere this is the flower head of Echinops ritro ‘White Globe’. I can’t recall why I omitted this work of […]
Trevoole, et vous?
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. I love this quote from Henry David Thoreau, American author, poet, […]