Daily Flower Candy: Hepatica transsilvanica
Reading time 3 minutes
Just like snowdrops, hepaticas have recently developed something of a cult following in the UK. A fascination with these diminutive members of the buttercup […]
Plants
2014 RHS London Plant and Design Show – Highlights
Reading time 8 minutes
Those of you who look in on The Frustrated Gardener regularly will know that I treasure my little jaunts from my place of work […]
Daily Flower Candy: Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
Reading time 2 minutes
Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii has featured once already in Daily Flower Candy, but I couldn’t resist including a photograph taken this weekend in our local […]
Daily Flower Candies: Helleborus foetidus & Iris foetidissima
Reading time 2 minutes
One might consider it wise to steer well clear of any plant with a latin name ending foetidus or foetidissima. After all the epithet means […]
A Haven for Hellebores
Reading time 5 minutes
Plunging down a steep lane at the edge of the cathedral city of Truro, one arrives at Bosvigo. This two acre garden surrounding a […]
RHS London Plant and Design Show
Reading time 2 minutes
A reminder that next week, on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd February, the RHS will be marking the imminent arrival of spring with their […]
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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Schizostylis ‘Pink Princess’
Reading time 2 minutes
Like a bemused child that has awoken with a start, the blushing, innocent flowers of Schizostylis ‘Pink Princess’ have opened their eyes during the […]
Miraculous Mosses
Reading time 3 minutes
Along with ducks, umbrella salesmen and water companies, mosses are among the few things enjoying this frightful spell of wet weather. The rain brings […]
Between the Storms
Reading time 3 minutes
To call this winter a wash-out would be something of an understatement. Parts of the country have experienced double the average amount of rainfall […]
Trevoolery
Reading time 3 minutes
We do not get back to Cornwall often enough, but the arrival of my sister’s new baby spurred us into making the five hour […]
Aeonium Envy
Reading time 2 minutes
I have loved a great many aeoniums, and lost a few too. Not to frost, which is is their main enemy in UK gardens, […]