How to Enjoy Your Garden in March
Reading time 33 minutes
Although winter’s icy fingers cling to March, their grip weakens daily. The weather may not always be clement, but there’s no turning back now; […]
shrubs
10 Shrubs to Brighten the Winter Months
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Most of us spend relatively little time in the garden during the winter months. Of course there are jobs to be done, but with […]
Daily Flower Candy: Megaskepasma erythrochlamys
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Megaskepasma erythrochlamys: Brazilian red cloak It must appear to those less familiar with the plant world that botanists sometimes take the mickey when it […]
Bravery
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I had ideas about going to the Great Dixter Spring Plant Fair this weekend, but it dawned on me that I should spend more time […]
Daily Flower Candy: Rhus typhina
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The list of plants I’d like to grow if I had space is endless and trees would make up many of that number. I […]
Daily Flower Candy: Olearia phloggopappa ‘Combers Pink’
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Nestled deep in the Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, was the location for one of our Christmas photo shoots. It may sound strange, but I live […]
Daily Flower Candy: Sarcococca ruscifolia
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Venturing out of the terrace doors this morning I am hit, full frontal, by the scent of Christmas Box, Sarcococca ruscifolia. The fragrance coming […]
Daily Flower Candy: Camellia ‘Cornish Spring’
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So often winter flowering shrubs are big on fragrance but lacking in flower power. The likes of Lonicera x purpusii, Viburnum x bodnantense and […]
Daily Flower Candy – Leptospermum scoparium ‘Coral Candy’
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What is marvellous about gardening is that one is always discovering new things. Last weekend I spotted this pretty Leptospermum, flowering its socks off […]
Daily Flower Candy – Mahonia x media ‘Charity’
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As the lowest low-pressure system in 150 years approaches the UK across the Atlantic, there’s precious little chance of enjoying any natural sunshine. A […]
Plant Portraits: Osmanthus fragrans (Guìhuā (桂花) or Sweet Olive)
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It is customary in Hong Kong for 5 star hotels to have a house fragrance, pumped into lobbies in heady clouds and sold at […]
Windy Ridge, St Margaret’s at Cliffe
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The National Gardens Scheme is an absolutely wonderful charity, allowing gardeners and garden lovers access to thousands of private gardens across the country every […]