Do you live in a town or city centre? Is your garden small, overlooked or in shadow for part of the day? Is digging your soil like cutting bricks or carrying out an archaeological dig? […]
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Chelsea Flower Show 2016-2017: The Morgan Stanley Gardens
Given the paucity of show gardens at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, I regret not having written more about last year’s crop, which had a different pedigree altogether. I hope to correct one such […]
Daily Flower Candy: Acacia longifolia
Acacia longifolia: long-leaved wattle, acacia trinervis, aroma doble, golden wattle, coast wattle, sallow wattle, Sydney golden wattle Winter has returned for its last hurrah this week, bestowing cold gales, hail and sleet upon us […]
Daily Flower Candy: Caltha palustris ssp. polypetala
Caltha palustris ssp. polypetala: giant marsh marigold, kingcup Forsythia, crocus, narcissus, mahonia, acacia, kerria: have you ever pondered why so many early flowering plants have predominantly yellow flowers? It’s because the colour yellow, whether it be […]
Getting to Grips – Part 1
For the last couple of days I have been getting to grips with our two gardens. Like time and tide, nature waits for no man when spring arrives. We’ve not experienced a frost yet in […]
Back on the Bridge
This week a landmark project that I have been following for over two years came one step closer to becoming reality. So close in fact that work on The Garden Bridge over the London’s River […]
Daily Flower Candy: Iris histrioides ‘George’ AGM
I don’t know about you, but my green fingers fail me when it comes to keeping early spring irises flowering from one season to the next. The tiny bulbs, mainly cultivars and hybrids of Iris […]
