Daily Flower Candy: Iris reticulata ‘Katherine Hodgkin’
Reading time 2 minutes
Not many plants break the rules when it comes to flower colour. Fewer still manage to do it successfully:’ blue’ roses for example. Just […]
alpines
Daily Flower Candy: Pulsatilla vulgaris AGM
Reading time 1 minute
It’s been a heavy week, so I am going to end it with something light and fluffy. These are the silken seedheads of the […]
Chelsea 2013: Kevock Garden Plants, Midlothian
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Kevock Garden Plants have staged one of the most exciting exhibits at this year’s show, featuring cascades of Trillium, Meconopsis, Primula and Glaucidum. If […]
The Valley of the Black Cranes – Gangtey and the Phobjikha valley
Reading time 8 minutes
I once read that your preference for different kinds of landscape stems from a deep seated evolutionary instinct related to the race you’ve descended […]
Flowers of Bhutan – Primula calderiana
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Today’s little Bhutanese gem is Primula calderiana. After a visit from the Thunder Dragon himself last night (i.e. a very dramatic thunder storm), the […]
Flowers in the Forest – Over the Dochu La Pass
Reading time 8 minutes
Much of the driving in Bhutan is tortuous and faintly terrifying. It’s best to pay as little attention as possible to where the car […]
Introducing Bhutan
Reading time 4 minutes
‘I’m going on holiday’. ‘Oh, anywhere nice?’ comes the response. ‘Bhutan’ I reply. The majority of my friends and colleagues have a pretty good […]
All the fun of the fair
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The heady fragrance of hyacinths, immaculate Narcissus, incredible alpines and bustling biddies with notepads in hand, it can only be one event in the […]