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 […]
Wild Flowers
2014 RHS London Plant and Design Show – Highlights
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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: Petasites fragrans (Winter Heliotrope)
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Our flying visit to Cornwall was punctuated by heavy showers and sunny spells. Farmland around St Agnes was sodden, little tin streams swollen and […]
Growing Vertical in Victoria
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Victoria, once a grey and unexciting slice of central London sandwiched between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, has been undergoing something of a transformation. […]
Hangers-On
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It’s midweek and already my brain has turned to blancmange. So for everyone’s sake, I’ll keep today’s post simple. Living by the seaside, we […]
Daily Flower Candy: Lone Poppy
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Poppies are resourceful little plants, seeding themselves everywhere and living their short, glorious lives in the fast lane. Putting little effort into producing […]
A Little Bit of Paradise
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At the end of July we travelled north to the cathedral city of Durham. My partner (aka ‘Him Indoors’) grew up on a picture-perfect […]
Remembering London 2012
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This time last year I was already in the Olympic stadium, watching the warm up for the opening ceremony. Unlike today, the skies were […]
Daily Flower Candy: Iris foetidissima var. citrina
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Iris foetidissima is one of only two irises which are native to the UK. A hardy perennial, it’s better known by a variety of […]
Daily Flower Candy: Cow Parsley
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No English country hedgerow or meadow is complete without a misting of delicate, frothy cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris). It emerges from nowhere and disappears […]
Daily Flower Candy: Papaver commutatum ‘Ladybird’
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An annual, Papaver commutatum ‘Ladybird’ is as pretty as a picture and as fleeting as its spotty-winged namesake. With its scarlet flowers and inky […]
Daily Flower Candy: Hyacinthoides non-scripta
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Bluebells are as much part of the English spring tapestry as daffodils, cow parsley and wild cherry blossom. They are much loved for their […]