Daily Flower Candy: Hosta “Halcyon” AGM
Reading time 3 minutes
Alright, enough now, all this wet stuff has been marvellous but where’s the sun? This time last year it was scorching – so scorching […]
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Going to The Chapel
Reading time 12 minutes
When a new garden opens for the National Gardens Scheme in Thanet it’s a major event, principally because there are only three others, […]
Standing Room Only
Reading time 6 minutes
With the garden at Polegate Cottage temporarily occupied by builders and tradesmen, I am experiencing an explosion in the plant population next door […]
Castle Park Physic Garden, Bristol
Reading time 6 minutes
As I alighted from the train at Bristol Temple Meads station on Saturday, I worked out that it had been 25 years since […]
Daily Flower Candy: Clematis ‘Madame Julia Correvon’ AGM
Reading time 3 minutes
It’s been a vintage year for clematis, in our London garden especially. Plants that have previously performed well but never shone have been turbo-charged […]
In, Out, In, Out, Shake it all About
Reading time 4 minutes
Hasn’t the whole EU Referendum campaign been ghastly? I’ve just wanted to run and hide in the garden until its all over. There’s […]
Daily Flower Candy: Catalpa bignonioides “Aurea” AGM
Reading time 5 minutes
I am deep into writing two or three lengthy posts, each of which is defying me when it comes to crafting a satisfactory […]
A Tale of Two Gardens
Reading time 13 minutes
Nurturing two gardens eighty eight miles apart is mainly a blessing, but sometimes a curse. The task becomes tricky if we want to […]
British Flowers Week 2016
Reading time 8 minutes
On one subject, and possibly one subject only, do Him Indoors and I agree: there must always be flowers in our house. Sadly […]
Stourhead Revisited
Reading time 8 minutes
“We reached Stourhead at 3 o’clock. By that time the sun had penetrated the mist, and was gauzy and humid ….. Never do […]
Daily Flower Candy: Crinodendron hookerianum
Reading time 2 minutes
Crinodendron hookerianum: Chilean lantern tree, Tricuspidaria lanceolata There are some trees that you don’t come across very often, but when you do they are […]
Rhododendron Rebound
Reading time 8 minutes
Although I’ve never been able to grow them well, rhododendrons have always held a special place in my heart. I grew up visiting […]