Plant Portraits: Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’
Reading time 5 minutes
Succulent plants are not everyone’s cup of tea, but one which attracted a lot of admiring glances when we opened our garden for the […]
Isles of Scilly
Triumph Over Adversity – Tresco Abbey Garden
Reading time 13 minutes
When, in 1834, the handsome Augustus Smith secured the lease for the Isles of Scilly, I wonder if he was aware of the legacy […]
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 – Echeveria lilacina
Reading time 2 minutes
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: Narcissus ‘Soleil d’Or’
Reading time 1 minute
I am used to grim weather on my birthday, but today’s meteorological maelstrom has been especially miserable. Yet out in the Atlantic on the […]