Daffodil Week: Symbols of Easter
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Happy Easter one and all! For the whole of Easter week I will be writing about the most lauded of spring flowers, the daffodil. […]
Plants
Daily Flower Candy: Canarina canariensis
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Regular readers may already have noticed that I am sucker for a subtropical plant. On a cold Sunday in February, whilst visiting London’s Chelsea Physic Garden, […]
Primrose Blue
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You’ve all heard of primrose yellow, but let me introduce you to primrose blue. As a flower colour blue is something of acquired taste, especially […]
Chelsea Physic Garden – Nick Bailey’s ‘Best in Snow’
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Early in February I went along to the Chelsea Physic Garden for one of their annual snowdrop days. I was lucky enough to bag […]
Daily Flower Candy: Iris reticulata ‘Sheila Ann Germaney’
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For two years in a row I have waxed lyrical about Iris ‘Katherine Hodgkin’, a reticulated hybrid with bleached denim-blue flowers that remind me of […]
Daily Flower Candy: Dutch Crocus (Crocus vernus)
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The groundflame of the crocus breaks the mould, Fair Spring slides hither o’er the Southern sea, Wavers on her thin stem the snowdrop cold […]
Portrait of a Lady: Iris histrioides ‘Lady Beatrix Stanley’
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Spring arrived in earnest today, with temperatures reaching a balmy 16 degrees in the sunshine. The mercury has not been that high since October […]
Daily Flower Candy: Primula vulgaris ‘Taigetos’
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I do so love it when a plant utterly defies the wrong situation and flourishes, when really it should turn and fail. In our London garden […]
Daily Flower Candy: Iris reticulata ‘Blue Note’
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I adore irises. Their blooms recall the style and elegance of days gone by and appear throughout the spring and summer, starting in early […]
Duty
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I have been particularly dutiful this week, even if I do say myself. I began the week in Cornwall, entertaining my beautiful, happy, intelligent […]
Hellebore Heaven
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The weather forecast for Saturday was not promising – heavy rain and hail showers – but, as is often the case in Cornwall, the elements […]
Gold Rush
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There is one colour that’s inextricably linked with early spring, and that’s yellow. Whether it’s canary, lemon, sunflower, primrose or golden, yellow is the colour […]