To Fly Another Day
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I was in the garden early this morning, the very best time to be out there, enjoying the collared doves’ soft cooing between bursts of raucous squealing from […]
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Daily Flower Candy: Rubus odoratus
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Given Holland’s colonial past, the palette of plants used in Amsterdam’s town gardens is suprisingly limited. The stereotype is a formal layout of camellias, […]
Birthday Bombki
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I celebrated The Frustrated Gardener’s second birthday yesterday in one of the farthest corners of Poland, near the city of Wroclaw. The countryside in […]
Daily Flower Candy – Echeveria lilacina
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We’ve spent the last two days on the Isles of Scilly, a tiny archipelago of islands off the southwestern tip of England. The climate […]
Daily Flower Candy: Helleborus argutifolius
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Easy to overlook for half the gardening year, Helleborus argutifolius, the Corsican hellebore, is coming into its own right now. From mounds of jade […]
The Final Push…..
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This week has quite simply run away with me. It’s gone by in a blur of glitter, spreadsheets, wrapping paper, meetings, champagne, parties, chocolate, […]
The Big Apple Beckons
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Although I live and breath Christmas year-round, it’s an annual business trip to New York that really marks the beginning of my festivities. I […]
Uncouth Cats and Kamikaze Kisses
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On Saturday we a had a visitation from the Assistant County Organiser for the Kent National Gardens Scheme. So naturally, what could go wrong […]
The Problem With Lilies
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Lilium regale – the ultimate lily? Lilies are, without question, one of the most elegant summer flowering bulbs. Gertrude Jekyll, the renowned garden designer […]
When wearied an…
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When wearied and over-wrought by study or affairs of business, repair to these haunts and refresh your mind by a stroll amidst the flowers. […]
A Feast of Foliage
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Whether it’s the sun, too much water or too much food I don’t know, but the garden in going nuts at the moment. The […]
In The Garden This Week
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Our coastal garden is starting to look really exciting now, with lots of lush growth being encouraged by the warm sunshine. It’s still very […]