Daily Flower Candy: Geranium ‘Rozanne’
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I will admit to being underwhelmed when the RHS named Geranium ‘Rozanne’ their ‘Plant of the Centenary’ in 2013. The hardy perennial was chosen […]
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Jolly Hollyhocks
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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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Ypsilandra thibetica
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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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Phytolacca polyandra
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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 […]
Double Dutch
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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. […]
Daily Flower Candy – Campanula lactiflora
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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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii
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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 […]
Return to the Salutation
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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 […]
Daily Flower Candy: Eupatorium purpureum
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Need some colour at the back of your herbaceous border in late summer? Then look not further than Eupatorium purpureum, otherwise known as Joe Pye […]
Daily Flower Candy – Echinops ritro ‘White Globe’
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Forming a perfect, filigree sphere this is the flower head of Echinops ritro ‘White Globe’. I can’t recall why I omitted this work of […]
Blue Gold
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The days ahead promise more warm dry weather, but we’ve enjoyed some much needed rain today. The last time we encountered ‘the wet stuff’ […]
Plants Portraits: Acanthus spinosus
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It’s not often that I make time to really study a plant or flower in detail. Last weekend, whilst staying with family, I seized […]