Chelsea Flower Show 2016: The Viking Cruises Mekong Garden
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For some reason the woodland ride that connects the Chelsea Flower Show’s Artisan Gardens seemed particularly quiet this year. On previous visits this […]
Travel
Return to Eden
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It is May 2000 and I am standing in a long line of chattering, excitable people wearing white hard hats. This is not an […]
Photo Opportunity
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I love anything to do with flowers; studying them, gazing at them, talking about them, growing them and photographing them. I don’t believe I […]
Seeing Snowdrops
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One of my unwritten New Year’s resolutions is to address my southern bias when it comes to writing this blog. As someone who’s never […]
Reflections
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In my life as a buyer of all things festive, it is Christmas every day of the year. My face is permanently dusted with […]
Postcards from Prague
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No jetting off to New York this year, but a trip to the Czech Republic instead. And what a refreshing trip it was. Not […]
The Lady
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As we approach the festive season it feels like the world has very little to celebrate. The tragedy that has befallen Paris and its […]
Kowloon Park, Hong Kong
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I am very fortunate to be able to travel as much as I do, but when I am away from home I miss my gardens […]
Beautiful Dreamer
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I took this photograph today in Kowloon Park, Hong Kong. A girl sat artfully at the edge of the water, shaded by a graceful […]
Daily Vegetable Candy: Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
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Mesembryanthemum crystallinum: bingcai, common ice plant, crystalline iceplant, ice greens. When in China, my general policy is to eat every food I am presented […]
Daily Flower Candy: Balanophora harlandii
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My knowledge of parasitic plants is limited to say the least. It extends no further than dodder (Cuscuta epithymum) and toothwort (Lathraea clandestina). But […]
Plants and Peace on The Peak
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One of the many wonderful things about writing this blog is that I am slowly building up an invaulable record of what I did […]