Bella Donnas
Reading time 3 minutes
Amaryllis belladonna: Jersey lily, naked lady, belladonna amaryllis We gardeners spend so much time and energy trying to cultivate plants which aren’t 100% […]
Plant Portraits
Plant Portraits: Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’
Reading time 5 minutes
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 […]
Plant Portraits: Dicksonia antartica
Reading time 9 minutes
For a while in the nineties, when television programmes such as Home Front and Ground Force ruled the air waves, tree ferns almost became […]
Plants Portraits: Acanthus spinosus
Reading time 1 minute
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 […]
Plant Portraits: Digitalis sceptrum
Reading time 6 minutes
For the most part, the experience of gardening is a succession of small triumphs and minor failures, all of which make us stronger people […]