Wallowing in the June Gap
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We are in the midst of a period known to gardeners and beekeepers as the June Gap. Both of our gardens have become a […]
Perennials
Gardening on the Edge: Foamlea, North Devon
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The most inspiring gardens are not always those on which huge funds are lavished or indeed the better known ones. Often they are the […]
Daily Flower Candy: Erigeron glaucus (beach aster)
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The recipe for a classic seaside garden is as tried and tested as that for the most British of cakes, a Victoria Sandwich. Take a sheet […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: World Vision and Dark Matter
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Big budget show gardens are all well and good, but it was two of Chelsea’s smaller gardens that really impressed me on Tuesday. The ‘Fresh’ category is […]
A Walk on Walmer’s Wild Side
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We needed to blow away the cobwebs today, so settled on a drive down to one of our favourite spots, the stretch of coastline […]
Geranium maderense vs Geranium palmatum
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Three years ago when I started The Frustrated Gardener this was my first ‘proper’ post. For some reason it has gone on to be […]
Spring Flower Candy: Disporum megalanthum
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Our London garden offers few plants their perfect conditions – no surprise when you consider it was once no more than a shady patch of shattered Tarmac with subsoil dumped […]
Spring Flower Candy: Pleione formosana
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I will be devoting a post to a different spring flower each day this week, and they don’t come much more special than Pleione formosana. I […]
Primrose Blue
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You’ve all heard of primrose yellow, but let me introduce you to primrose blue. As a flower colour blue is something of acquired taste, especially […]
Chelsea Physic Garden – Nick Bailey’s ‘Best in Snow’
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Early in February I went along to the Chelsea Physic Garden for one of their annual snowdrop days. I was lucky enough to bag […]
Daily Flower Candy: Ypsilandra thibetica
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Just occasionally, well, maybe a little more often than that, I buy a plant for all the wrong reasons. Invariably my foolishness leads to […]
Hellebore Heaven
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The weather forecast for Saturday was not promising – heavy rain and hail showers – but, as is often the case in Cornwall, the elements […]