Kaleidoscopic Colours
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I am in Cornwall, where the hydrangea is Queen of Shrubs. No seaside garden is complete without at least one; indeed many are packed […]
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Beautiful Barnacles
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One thing I miss living on a stretch of chalk coastline is a good old boulder. The best we manage in Broadstairs is a […]
Dahlia Week: Classy Collerettes
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Dahlias come in all shapes and sizes. This is why, like other extensively hybridised flowers, dahlias are classified by flower type. There are waterlilies, […]
Dahlia Week: Big and Beautiful
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When I was a boy, most dahlias looked a little like D. ‘Lady Darlene’. They were bold and brazen, not afraid to be bi-coloured […]
Dahlia Week: Dahlia ‘Happy Halloween’
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This week The Frustrated Gardener is devoting itself to that dazzling diva of the autumn garden, the dahlia. Since Christopher Lloyd re-ignited our fascination […]
In Praise of Foliage
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Gardeners the world over are obsessed with flowers. I am no exception. As well as being beautiful to look at, flowers are a sign […]
Beaded II
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We had family from Sheffield staying at The Watch House last week. In contrast to early August the weather was atrocious. From what I […]
Beaded
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Its been a sultry week here in London. Moisture has been heavy in the air, reluctant to fall, forming a dull haze over the Thames […]
Que Sera Sera ….
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… Whatever will be will be, as the song goes. I have reached a point now where all I can do is clean and tidy […]
Storm and Pestilence
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I should have known better than to mention either of the words in the title of tonight’s post as, lo and behold, we were delivered […]
Daily Flower Candy: Incarvillea delavayi ‘Snowtop’
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I need more plants like I need a hole in the head. The garden is already bursting at the seams and there’s twelve weeks […]
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 […]