Tag Archives: Plants
Bands, beats and blood bees
On St Swithin’s day, July 15th, I am walking around Alexandra Palace Garden Centre taking photographs of plants for our Instagram accou...
A Journey Through Borde Hill Garden
Set in 383 acres of parkland in the green and rolling High Weald of Sussex, Borde Hill is a plant lovers’ paradise, home to a...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Magnificent magnolia
The streets may not be paved with gold but here in the northern corner of East Sussex they are lined with magnolias. From sizeable tree...
Forsythia: Nice to see you, to see you, nice!
The double seat in front: just out of reach. As the eighty-five bus lurches away from Putney Bridge station I glare at the back of the ...
Embracing the blues: Bulbs for Spring and early Summer blooms
The blue bell is the sweetest flower
That waves in summer air;
Its blossoms have the mightiest power
To soothe my spirit’s car...
Something borrowed, something blue
Something borrowed, something blue
What are your early gardening memories? One of my formative horticultural recollections...
