Daily Flower Candy: Fuchsia magellanica var. gracilis AGM
Reading time 2 minutes
Few plants hold their flowers as gracefully as fuchsias. Whether large or small flowered, the blooms typically tremble at the end of fine wiry stems. […]
Trees and Shrubs
Picturesque Perfect: Hotel Endsleigh, Devon
Reading time 17 minutes
‘A Cottage’ is how Georgina, sixth Duchess of Bedford, described her country home at Endsleigh in Devon. Most visitors today, whether to the garden […]
Amsterdam Open Gardens Weekend 2014
Reading time 13 minutes
We all know Amsterdam as a city arranged along tree-lined canals. Some are fronted with fine houses, others modest ones, but all share similar characteristics – […]
Great Balls of Fire – Sandling Park in May
Reading time 8 minutes
There was such an extraordinary amount going on in May that I am now working through a draft post pile-up. In contrast to the scarcity […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2014: Artisan Gardens
Reading time 7 minutes
Away from the hype and hubbub of Chelsea’s Main Avenue, two categories of show garden highlight the newest talent and the most innovative ideas […]
Plant Portraits: Dicksonia antartica
Reading time 9 minutes
For a while in the nineties, when television programmes such as Home Front and Ground Force ruled the air waves, tree ferns almost became […]
Daily Flower Candy: Crataegus monogyna
Reading time 3 minutes
Three cheers for the May Day Bank Holiday. Hip hip, hooray! A Sunday night free of work worries, an extra day in the garden […]
Spring comes to Saltwood
Reading time 5 minutes
Yesterday the hedgerows were heavy with may flower and vital with leaf as we drove from Broadstairs to Saltwood Castle for the 2014 NSPCC plant fair. […]
Daily Flower Candy: Olearia phloggopappa ‘Combers Pink’
Reading time 2 minutes
Nestled deep in the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, was the location for one of our Christmas photo shoots. It may sound strange, but I live […]
Wild Tresco
Reading time 8 minutes
Twenty eight miles from mainland Britain, the Isles of Scilly offer migrant birds first landfall on their arduous journeys across the Atlantic. The Isles […]
Daily Flower Candy – Magnolia ‘Apollo’
Reading time 2 minutes
When it comes to magnolias, rhododendrons and camellias there is nowhere in Britain quite like Cornwall. It’s to our most south-westerly county that many of […]
BlueBell Arboretum and Nursery
Reading time 6 minutes
I have been meaning to get better acquainted with the larger members of the plant world for some time. Being a ‘small’ gardener, my […]