Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Hidden Beauty of Kranji
Reading time 5 minutes
In 2005, Singapore announced plans to distinguish itself as a ‘City in a Garden’. The projects that followed, such as The Gardens by the Bay, […]
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Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Edo no Niwa by Ishihara Kazuyuki
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I changed my plans this year and instead of dashing headlong for Main Avenue when the show opened on Tuesday, I hung a left […]
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 […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – Stars of the Show: Laurent-Perrier Chatsworth Garden
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At about 10.30am yesterday morning a small crowd surrounded Monty Don and RHS Director General Sue Biggs as they prepared to announce the prize […]
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 […]
A Bit of Fluff
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“She can’t be unhappy,” you said, “The smiles are like stars in her eyes, And her laugh is thistledown Around her low replies.” “Is […]