Making Arrangements
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This Wednesday I was extended the great honour of arranging the flowers for Trevoole Farm’s NGS open day. I’m not sure what qualified me […]
Perennials
Daily Flower Candy: Stipa gigantea
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Grasses come into their own in late summer, their feathery plumes rendered golden in the lowering sunlight. King of all the garden grasses is […]
Castle Drogo, Devon
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My favourite architect by a country mile is Edwin Lutyens. Often described as a genius, he is most lauded for his Surrey country houses, […]
A Not So Red Hot Poker
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This cool Kniphofia (red hot poker) is part of George Dillistone’s clever planting scheme at Castle Drogo in Devon. Planted amongst stronger yellow Heleniums […]
Blue Gold
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The days ahead promise more warm dry weather, but we’ve enjoyed some much needed rain today. The last time we encountered ‘the wet stuff’ […]
Daily Flower Candy: Veratrum album
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One of my favourite sculptural plants, Veratrum album, is also a pretty nasty poison, with a long history of accidental and deliberate death. Alexander […]
Plants Portraits: Acanthus spinosus
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It’s not often that I make time to really study a plant or flower in detail. Last weekend, whilst staying with family, I seized […]
Growing North
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In honour of Him Indoors’ birthday we’ve had a lovely long weekend in northern England. We managed to squeeze in five completely different gardens […]
Hampton Court Flower Show 2013: Hot Gardens
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Above, ‘Mid Century Modern’ designed by Adele Ford and Susan Wilmott We’re so accustomed to the British Summer being a wash out, it’s a […]
Remembering London 2012
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This time last year I was already in the Olympic stadium, watching the warm up for the opening ceremony. Unlike today, the skies were […]
Hampton Court Flower Show 2013: Cool Gardens
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It was a hot, dry and dusty Hampton Court Flower Show this year. I returned home with my blue suede shoes looking more like […]
Hampton Court Flower Show 2013: My Top 10 Plants
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Like a horticultural fashion show, Britain’s flower shows provide the launch pad for new ideas in gardening and the latest introductions from breeders and […]