Chelsea Flower Show 2016-2017: The Morgan Stanley Gardens
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Given the paucity of show gardens at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, I regret not having written more about last year’s crop, which […]
Perennials
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Best in Show – The M&G Garden
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Well slap my thigh and call me Mildred, James Basson won gold and landed this year’s Best in Show for his monumental Maltese […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017: Beneath a Mexican Sky
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Ah, the vagaries of the British weather. Last week: wind and torrential rain, this week: clear skies and temperatures in the twenties centigrade. […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2017 Preview
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I am taking a different approach to my Chelsea Flower Show coverage this year. Recent events and the amount of time I am […]
Great Dixter: Pots of Plenty
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The recent chilly weather has had its pros and cons. The downside for eager gardeners who have been nurturing seedlings and planting out […]
Daily Flower Candy: Osteospermum
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As indispensable plants for seaside gardens go, ostespermums are high on the list, and most certainly in the top ten. They are low-growing, […]
Wonder Walls Part II
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Each time I return to the West Country I am reminded just how damp it is compared to Kent. A crude comparison of […]
Daily Flower Candy: Iris bucharica AGM
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Despite being a plantaholic, the existence of certain plants eludes me. Then, all of a sudden, a ‘new’ discovery will burst onto the scene, […]
The Great Dixter Dozen
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It’s rare that I sacrifice commentary for imagery, but as I look back over the photographs I took at Great Dixter last weekend, […]
Great Dixter Spring Plant Fair 2017
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Every visit to Great Dixter is a treat, but when the additional carrot of a plant fair is dangled in front of my […]
Daily Flower Candy: Epimedium zhushanense ‘Zhushan Fairy Wings’
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I’ve reached that point in the year when the number of posts I have time to write is overtaken by the number of […]
Crazy for Corydalis
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The defining plants of my pre-teen years were those that grew in the garden of my parents’ 1930’s semi-detached house in Plymouth. Climbing […]