Amaryllis belladonna: Jersey lily, naked lady, belladonna amaryllis We gardeners spend so much time and energy trying to cultivate plants which aren’t 100% suited to our gardens. We slave away, attending to our tender […]
Category: Plant Portraits
Plant Portraits: Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’
Succulent plants are not everyone’s cup of tea, but one which attracted a lot of admiring glances when we opened our garden for the National Gardens Scheme was Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’. It’s hardly surprising given […]
Plant Portraits: Dicksonia antartica
For a while in the nineties, when television programmes such as Home Front and Ground Force ruled the air waves, tree ferns almost became a gardening cliché. They were saved from turning into the plant equivalent […]
Plants Portraits: Acanthus spinosus
It’s not often that I make time to really study a plant or flower in detail. Last weekend, whilst staying with family, I seized the opportunity to have a closer look at Acanthus spinosus, commonly […]
Plant Portraits: Digitalis sceptrum
For the most part, the experience of gardening is a succession of small triumphs and minor failures, all of which make us stronger people and better gardeners. Of course our patience is sometimes tried by […]
