I’ve known Ed Ikin, head of Landscape and Horticulture for Kew’s country place at Wakehurst, for years in a virtual kind […]
Archive for ‘Trees’
Friday Flora – Parrotia persica
I’m not very good at trees. As most of my horticultural career has focused on container planting I have limited experience […]
Drizzly but Dazzling – a Morning at Westonbirt Arboretum
I wasn’t going to write another post this weekend but on Saturday I went to Westonbirt Arboretum with some members […]
Friday Flora – Sorbus aucuparia
I’ve just been on a big northern road trip with my mother and my sister. We drove uphill (well it […]
Friday Flora – Araucaria heterophylla
Today I am thinking about a tree I nearly had. Or at least I had a little one in a […]
Friday Flora – Platanus x acerifolia, the London plane
This week I have seen all sorts of exciting plants arriving at Chelsea Flower Show by the lorry load. I […]
Snowshill, snooping and snipping
I live in the shadow of the Cotswolds, and much as I’d love to have a dinky little Cotswold stone […]
Life’s a Beech
We live in the Cotswolds, or rather in a Cotswolds town. We like walking, but we don’t go nearly frequently […]
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