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Posts tagged ‘perennials’

I will admit to being underwhelmed when the RHS named Geranium ‘Rozanne’ their ‘Plant of the Centenary’ in 2013. The hardy perennial was chosen by RHS members from a list of 10 plants which included Russell Hybrid lupins, Rosa ‘Iceberg’, and Erysimum ‘Bowles’s Mauve’. All…

Daily Flower Candy: Geranium ‘Rozanne’

November 11, 2015
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Long standing followers of The Frustrated Gardener will know that I have something of a crush on hollyhocks (Alcea). So it was no surprise when my heart went all aflutter at the sight of The Botanic Nursery exhibit at Hampton Court last week. In previous years…

Jolly Hollyhocks

July 7, 2015
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Just occasionally, well, maybe a little more often than that, I buy a plant for all the wrong reasons. Invariably my foolishness leads to failure, followed by guilt. I hate to see a plant die, especially when it’s through no fault of its own. I…

Daily Flower Candy: Ypsilandra thibetica

March 12, 2015
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One of the joys of writing this blog is having the incentive to seek out and learn about new plants. Today, on a training course at our company conference centre, I took some time out to explore the grounds. In the otherwise flagging herbaceous borders I spied…

Daily Flower Candy: Phytolacca polyandra

August 29, 2014
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Earlier this year I was contacted by Kristel Engelen at Dutch gardening magazine ‘Tuinieren’, asking if The Frustrated Gardener would like to be featured on the publication’s ‘online harvest’ page. Flattered, I sent off an image of RHS Harlow Carr that Kristel had requested (above) with some information about myself. I promptly forgot…

Double Dutch

August 23, 2014
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I have been a little quiet of late and that’s for three reasons. The first is work, which has been abnormally busy.  The second and third are garden related. In London we have been building raised beds in which we intend to cultivate vegetables. I am…

Daily Flower Candy – Campanula lactiflora

July 5, 2014
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Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii has featured once already in Daily Flower Candy, but I couldn’t resist including a photograph taken this weekend in our local park, where it has formed rolling mounds of acid-green flowers almost as tall as I am. In bright sunlight the effect…

Daily Flower Candy: Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii

March 10, 2014
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With both gardens almost locked-down for winter it’s time to start writing about some of the places that have not yet made it on to The Frustrated Gardener. These half-forgotten visits are like blogging hay – sweet, fragrant and reminiscent of a time when the…

Return to the Salutation

December 3, 2013
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Daily Flower Candy: Eupatorium purpureum

September 29, 2013
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Daily Flower Candy – Echinops ritro ‘White Globe’

September 28, 2013
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