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Tag Archive for ‘wildlife’
Friday Flora – Papaver rhoeas, the field poppy
I have been doing a lot of gardening recently. Gardening is normally pretty high on the agenda but in June […]
Taking a rain check at Chatsworth
Press days at RHS flower shows are always a mixed bag for me. I am inspired and enthused by torrents […]
Wakehurst – walking on a bluebell planet
I’ve known Ed Ikin, head of Landscape and Horticulture for Kew’s country place at Wakehurst, for years in a virtual kind […]
Friday Flora – Fritillaria meleagris
I once caught the meadow at Magdalen College, Oxford, at exactly the right time. Thousands upon thousands of Fritillaria meleagris […]
Two Dozen Moments of Pleasure in 2016
How rubbish was 2016 for you? According to most media it was filled with death, destruction and awful politics. Well, […]
Diamonds and Doomed Pixies
Wednesday morning dawned, as forecast, dazzlingly clear and fiercely frosty. The garden was frozen solid and so I reasoned that there […]
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 – Digitalis purpurea
The foxglove has been one of my favourite flowers since the time when I was small enough to look up […]
Friday Flora – Hepatica
This week I just had to show you the devastatingly charming display of Hepatica (all 12 species) at RHS Chelsea […]
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