It’s time to order spring bulbs again. My problem is that I love them all and my wish list can […]
Tag Archive for ‘plants’
Friday Flora – Ageratum houstonianum ‘Timeless Mixed’
Don’t tell anyone I said this, but I’m not very good at growing plants from seed. I always buy too […]
Friday Flora – Clematis ‘Polish Spirit’
A friend on Twitter mentioned this clematis recently and remarked on how long it had been flowering in his garden. […]
FridayFlora – Rosa ‘Débutante’
I’m not all that keen on pink, and yet I seem to end up with a lot of pink flowers. When […]
Friday Flora – Allium cristophii
I have too many alliums in my garden. Their leaves make fine highways for slugs and snails and hamper every […]
Ferruginous and Crinkly – RHS Hampton Court Flower Show
If it’s July it must be Hampton Court. RHS Hampton Court Show is a big site, with a wide variety […]
Friday Flora – Digitalis purpurea
The foxglove has been one of my favourite flowers since the time when I was small enough to look up […]
Friday Flora – Abutilon vitifolium var. album
I struck a cutting from a friend’s Abutilon vitifolium var. album about ten years ago. Once it was a decent […]
A garden full of sculptures for Oxfordshire Artweek
On Bank Holiday Monday Chris and I went to the last day of “Sculpture at Kingham Lodge” in the nearby […]
Forever Freefolk – joining a planting team at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
This year I had a very small part in the making of Chelsea. When Rosy Hardy first told me last […]
