Getting to Grips with Hardy Orchids
Reading time 12 minutes
I can see a new addiction coming from a mile off, so on the whole I steer well clear of orchids. Over the ages […]
Orchids
April Showers
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Unpredictability is the name of the game when it comes to British weather, but one old proverb certainly promises to ring true in 2019: […]
RHS London Orchid Show & Plant Fair 2018
Reading time 10 minutes
Orchids are extraordinary flowers. They display remarkable diversity in colour, size and form. Some are scented, some are designed to entrap insects and few, […]
Golden Wonder
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This solitary, banana-shaped bud belongs to the one and only yellow pleione species, P. forrestii, just one of which has found its way […]
Dazzling Disas
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Being a man of the world, it takes quite a lot to impress me. Yet Dave Parkinson’s display of South African disa orchids […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2016: The Viking Cruises Mekong Garden
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For some reason the woodland ride that connects the Chelsea Flower Show’s Artisan Gardens seemed particularly quiet this year. On previous visits this […]
Plants and Peace on The Peak
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One of the many wonderful things about writing this blog is that I am slowly building up an invaulable record of what I did […]
Chelsea Flower Show 2015 – The Hidden Beauty of Kranji
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In 2005, Singapore announced plans to distinguish itself as a ‘City in a Garden’. The projects that followed, such as The Gardens by the Bay, […]
Spring Flower Candy: Pleione formosana
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I will be devoting a post to a different spring flower each day this week, and they don’t come much more special than Pleione formosana. I […]
Trevoole Farm – National Gardens Festival Weekend 2014
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This weekend over five hundred gardens participating in the National Gardens Scheme opened their gates to raise money for nursing and caring charities, including Macmillan Cancer […]
Sizzling Cymbidium
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I promised myself an hour or so this afternoon to catch up with a mountain of unread magazines, but typically I’ve ended distracted by […]
Burmese Days
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Young Boy, Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival, Inle Lake It was exactly one year ago that we were in Burma, enjoying a magical holiday […]