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Falling in love with agapanthus
I first encountered the delightful sky-blue blooms of agapanthus on a roundabout in Malaga many years ago and immediately fel...
Lettuce: From Ancient Pyramids to the Stars
Last month’s sweltering sun has given way to heavy rain and cooler breezes. For a while, shorts and t-shirts replaced jeans and fleeces...
Crazy For Daisies
Iconic spring and summer blooms, with slim, white ray-like petals and sunny yellow centres, it’s partly the simplicity of daisies that’...
The Angels’ Share – an RHS Chelsea Show Garden.
Macbeth was convinced he was invincible until Great Birnam Wood decided to take a stroll to Dunsinane Hill. The Thane of Glamis thought...
Wild About Poppies
Perhaps best known as a symbol of remembrance, poppies have a great deal to offer our gardens too. While we’ve yet to see, at the time ...
Garden Gnomes; RHS Chelsea Flower Show Bound.
The gnomes of England have had enough. Downing tools, they are on strike. Bags packed, scarlet caps donned, they have left their suburb...
In the night garden: plants for spring and summer evenings
Summer is a coming in,
Loudly sing, cuckoo!
Groweth seed and bloweth mead,
And springeth wood anew.
Although ther...
Geums: two ladies, a tangerine, and some cocktails.
This is not a tale of louche behaviour, but some of the plants I will be talking about. I started writing this on my own, but I am no l...
Five-a-day the container way: growing vegetables in pots
For those of us of a certain mindset there’s little more pleasing than the morning check on the latest developments in the garden. Have...
Cercis; redbuds and Judas trees
Many of my early memories are to do with plants and gardens. What do I remember? I recall being taken to Kew Gardens in April to see th...
Bold and bright: Planting for a subtropical paradise
We have much to thank the plant hunters for. These intrepid explorers have brought us botanical marvels from around the world...
Easter Awakening
Easter arrives just as there is a definite change of step in the natural world. Nature lightens; plants appear more gentle as flower bu...
