Now is the Time to Plant Spring Bulbs
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Whilst tempting to lament the summer that never was, now is the time to be looking ahead and planting your spring-flowering bulbs. The first […]
Crocus
Action Stations!
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One can be excused for inactivity during January – after all, Christmas is exhausting – but with the arrival of February the garden begins […]
Spring Comes to Sissinghurst
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How fortunate that my first visit to Sissinghurst this year should coincide with the warmest day of the spring so far. As the […]
RHS London Plant and Design Show
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A reminder that next week, on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd February, the RHS will be marking the imminent arrival of spring with their […]
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. […]
A Schoolboy Error
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After a night of torrential rain – the kind of deluge that you’d imagine might signal the end of the world – it was […]
Daily Flower Candy: Colchicum autumnale
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In this debauched scene, naked ladies cavort in the damp grass, collapsing hither and thither in gay abandon. Also known as meadow saffron or […]
Savage Spring
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Last night, as we lay in bed, it was almost as if a BBC special effects man was standing outside the bedroom window chucking […]
An Icy Reception
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I’ve returned home to the seaside after three weeks away. Hurrah! It’s good to be back, but boy is it cold. In my absence, […]
Winter Whites
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A New Look for Spring
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Yes, The Frustrated Gardener has had a little spring make-over. I hope you like my new look. Please let me know what you think. […]
Planting Spring Bulbs in Containers
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It’s now or never for me in terms of planting spring-flowering bulbs. As with most things in gardening there is the text book time […]