Daily Flower Candy: Asarum delavayi ‘Giant’
Reading time 5 minutes
Asarum delavayi ‘Giant’*: Giant Wild Ginger, Panda face ginger As an antidote to my post about Vita Sackville-West’s macabre ‘Box of the Dead’ […]
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Spring Flower Candy: Disporum megalanthum
Reading time 3 minutes
Our London garden offers few plants their perfect conditions – no surprise when you consider it was once no more than a shady patch of shattered Tarmac with subsoil dumped […]
Spring Flower Candy: Allium ursinum
Reading time 4 minutes
Yesterday I sang the praises of an orchid, today I am waxing lyrical about an onion, or a garlic to be precise. Monday’s Spring Flower Candy is […]
Daily Flower Candy: Illicium simonsii
Reading time 2 minutes
Rare, fickle and recommended only for ‘expert’ gardeners, this is Illicium simonsii. It was not a shrub I was familiar with, but its butter-yellow […]
Daily Flower Candy: Smilacina racemosa AGM
Reading time 1 minute
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: Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Reading time 1 minute
Bluebells are as much part of the English spring tapestry as daffodils, cow parsley and wild cherry blossom. They are much loved for their […]
Fantastic Mr Foxglove
Reading time 2 minutes
After a fairly challenging day at work, my spirits were lifted when I returned home to find this lovely foxglove coming into flower by […]