
Iris Reticulata ‘Pauline’
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In an exciting new development, the following post can now be enjoyed as a podcast as well as in text and photographs. Cultivars of […]
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In an exciting new development, the following post can now be enjoyed as a podcast as well as in text and photographs. Cultivars of […]
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This spring I potted up more lilies than ever before. My intention was to bridge that awkward gap between the tulips fading and the […]
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I started this blog with a clear personal ambition to preserve what I already knew about plants and to encourage further learning. It was […]
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Cymbalaria muralis: Ivy-leaved toadflax, ivywort, Kenilworth ivy, coliseum ivy, Oxford ivy, mother of thousands, mother of millions, thousand flower, pennywort, wandering sailor, Aaron’s beard, […]
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In June this year I will have been blogging for seven years. I have completely forgotten most of the posts I wrote at the […]
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You would not believe the ideas I have for this blog. They are stored up in my head and occasionally committed to paper. […]
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Ornamental gingers – we’ve admired them whilst on holiday in tropical countries, or seen them curated in the glasshouses of botanical gardens, but […]
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I should have predicted it. I take a holiday, I unwind (sort of), and up creeps the dreaded tonsillitis. It happens every time, […]
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I am a sucker for a rare or unusual plant. Give me a packed table at a plant fair and I will spot the […]
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When a plant does well in my garden, I want to grow more of it. As a gardening strategy, this makes perfect sense. […]
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When something you like grows well in your garden it makes sense to grow more of it. I count agapanthus, zantedeschia, trachelospermum and […]
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This is a petrocosmea, a ground-hugging, rosette-forming relative of the African violet, hailing from the mountains of Western China. In its natural habitat […]
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