The Patient Gardener
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies - Gertrude Jekyll
It hadn’t occurred to me to use violas in my weekly vase until Saturday’s HPS meeting. We have a display table on which more confident members than me display various plants...
I have to admit that I didn’t greet the new The Plant Lover’s Guide to Tulips by Richard Wilford, published by Timberpress in association with Kew, with the same incandescent...
My Vase on Monday has been through a couple of guises today. I wanted to feature the Ballerina Tulips which are really the only tulips I have. They grow in the...
This week’s Vase on Monday features just one species – the Prunus Kojo-no-mai. I wanted to capture the charming cherry blossom before it went over. The flowers lower down the branches...
Yesterday I made my first visit of the year to Stockton Bury Gardens near Leominster in Herefordshire. Stockton Bury is one of my favourite gardens. I know there are some who...
Forgive my soggy photographs it was raining heavily yesterday and I only had time first thing to take them (the afternoon was spent at a lovely talk by Anna Pavord). Being...
With a little sunshine this weekend and a slight increase in the temperatures the first hellebores are starting to open. This is the plant that hooked me on hellebores some 7...
I have become increasingly fascinated by ferns and more and more seem to be finding their way into my garden. I have many evergreen and wintergreen varieties but also many deciduous...
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