Cold Front
Reading time 5 minutes
Hold the front page, the Beast from the East is not quite done with us yet. On Saturday we’re due to plunge back into […]
Plants
Down But Not Out
Reading time 5 minutes
I’ll confess last week’s wind and snow damage got me down, not that I had a great deal of time to dwell on it. […]
Counting the Cost
Reading time 10 minutes
I’ve been out in the garden this morning assessing the havoc wreaked by The Beast from The East and Storm Emma. It is […]
The White Stuff
Reading time 6 minutes
Oh! How we love a ‘snow event’ here in England. The rare instances when the white stuff descends from the heavens used to be […]
RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair 2018
Reading time 9 minutes
One event in my calendar heralds the approach of spring like no other: the RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair. Throughout the first, frozen […]
Launching ‘Project Dahlia’
Reading time 5 minutes
Having completed twenty five years service at John Lewis, ‘Partners’, as we are all known, are rewarded with six months paid leave. I will […]
10 Books on my Winter Reading List
Reading time 12 minutes
Having built myself a library, you would think I’d be spending all my time sitting about and reading. Unfortunately that’s so far from […]
Daily Flower Candy: Iris ‘Blue Note’ and Iris ‘Painted Lady’
Reading time 4 minutes
I planted so many pots with bulbs before Christmas that I’ve had to bring them on in serried ranks down the side of both […]
Daily Flower Candy: Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’
Reading time 5 minutes
Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’: winter-flowering cherry, rosebud cherry January can be a debilitating month, all dark, dreary and joyless. When I think of […]
Story of Flowers – Azuma Makoto
Reading time 4 minutes
If you have delved into my essential reading list, you will already know that I find the work of floral artist Azuma Makoto […]
Daily Flower Candy: Jasminum nudiflorum
Reading time 6 minutes
Jasminum nudiflorum: winter jasmine Most plants when translated from their native habitat into gardens adapt quite nicely. Some run riot, others curl up and […]
Daily Flower Candy: Polygala myrtifolia
Reading time 5 minutes
Polygala myrtifolia: myrtle-leaf milkwort, September bush, Augustusbossie At the end of the summer I often buy plants to plug gaps in the garden, […]