The Diary of a Plant Addict
Reading time 17 minutes
If my blog did not already have a title, ‘The Diary of a Plant Addict’ would be a strong candidate. I’ve had the most […]
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The Merry Month of May
Reading time 11 minutes
O THE month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! O, and then […]
Spring Comes to Sissinghurst
Reading time 13 minutes
How fortunate that my first visit to Sissinghurst this year should coincide with the warmest day of the spring so far. As the […]
Getting Real
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How comforting – Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson had plant casualties. They were like the rest of us, after all. This amusing revelation […]
The Very Best of 2014 – A Year In Pictures
Reading time 21 minutes
I embark on my review of 2014 with a degree of trepidation, as this year did not turn out to be quite as joyful as […]
Sissinghurst – Fire and Ice
Reading time 7 minutes
By late summer both of our plots have started to run out of puff, so I am always keen to seek out gardens which manage to […]
Daily Flower Candy: Amaryllis belladonna
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Whether it’s candy floss, baby, lipstick or rose, when it comes to autumn flowering bulbs, shades of pink are decidedly de rigueur. Right now there […]
Sissinghurst – Crazy for Colchicums
Reading time 7 minutes
I am guilty, guilty of having twice visited Sissinghurst this year and not having posted anything about it. Had this been any other garden I […]
Daily Flower Candy: Lotus berthelotii
Reading time 3 minutes
In case you haven’t noticed I am a sucker for anything colourful, exotic and expensive looking. This goes for food, cocktails, shirts, wallpaper and […]
Blooming Bosvigo
Reading time 7 minutes
Very little trumps the romanticism of a well-made woodland garden. Lush, informal and unbridled it will capture the heart in its quest to mimic nature. Every […]
Daily Flower Candy – Muscari aucheri ‘Blue Magic’
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Today I am beating the Monday blues with a little bit of sorcery, in the form of Muscari aucheri ‘Blue Magic’. Better known as grape […]
Daily Flower Candy: Kangaroo Apple
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One of my surprise survivors from last year Solanum laciniatum, the Kangaroo Apple, may finally have outgrown its welcome. The plants were bought from […]