A trip down memory lane… and a history lesson

Lose no time... Once upon a time.... my sister Christine, in the kaftan, my brother Mark, my Mother and me... I'm hijacking the purely horticultural aims of this blog for personal reasons - and a nostalgic walk down memory lane. Of all the times that I have been back home, in almost four decades, I…

February – Jewels in the Alpine House at Kew

Ipheion uniflorum - an onion - in the Davies Alpine House at Kew Narcissus cuatrecasesii, Muscari neglectum, Tropaeolum tricolor I make a point of calling in at the Alpine House at Kew (it is right next to the Princess of Wales Conservatory, at the top of the Rock Garden and behind the Grass Beds) as…