Daily Flower Candy: Rhododendron macabeanum AGM
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No, it’s not an exotic ginger or some new discovery from the steamy rainforests of Vietnam, it’s the detail of the bud scales of […]
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Daily Flower Candy: Smilacina racemosa AGM
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We’ve been searching for sturdy, shade loving-plants for our London garden, and where better to look than among the flora of North Amercia. Smilacina […]
Daily Flower Candy: Primula japonica ‘Postford White’ AGM
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I’m continuing the water garden theme this week with one of my ‘plants of the moment’, candelabra primulas. I’ve been photographing them in various […]
Chelsea 2013: Let the Show Begin!
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The shop windows of Sloane Square are decorated with flowers, Alan Titchmarsh has been applying the Grecian 2000 and the weather’s set to be […]
A Spring Spectrum – Sandling Park, Kent
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There are those that frown upon the lusty delights of rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas. I am not one of them. I expect these naysayers […]
All the fun of the fair
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The heady fragrance of hyacinths, immaculate Narcissus, incredible alpines and bustling biddies with notepads in hand, it can only be one event in the […]
The Very Best of 2012 – A Year In Pictures
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Where has 2012 gone? Despite so many memorable occasions – the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics, our trip to beautiful Burma, the birth of […]
Smashing Pumpkins and Red Hot Chilli Peppers
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Despite diligently renewing my subscription to the Royal Horticultural Society each year (thanks Mum and Dad!), it’s rare that I get to make proper […]
The Perfect Cure for a Hangover? Easton Walled Gardens, Lincolnshire
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Having partied until the small hours, and feeling just a little bit hung over, we weren’t exactly sure if we were up to getting […]