Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Fatsia japonica, in flower - big, bold shiny leaves and sputnik satellites of green flower. A very useful plant for a shady spot in the garden, providing a luxuriousness that is rare in these difficult conditions. Helen Yemm, writing in the Telegraph - is a fan - How to grow: Fatsia japonica Helen Yemm loves…
Continue reading ➞ Fatsia japonica – bold leaves (and flowers) for a shady corner
I've mentioned this pretty thing recently and I thought it deserves another outing - here it is again...
Hebe buxifolia nana - perfect tiny stacking towers of deep green, shiny leaves A dwarf 'boxwood' Hebe, a neat compact domes plant, growing no more than 30cm tall and wide, white flowers in the spring marking this out as something other than a clipped topiary box (Buxus). Native of New Zealand - my town garden…
Continue reading ➞ A hebe that thinks it’s a box
At last! Time for My Garden and taking out a large stand of Prunus laurocerasus (and not a little aucuba, yew, euonymus and pyracantha) which has taken over a sizeable part of the garden over the past five years - revealing a large bamboo which can be seen from the house now - balancing the…
Continue reading ➞ A busy day today – but this time I’m the client…
From goodlifegateway.com - an interesting business selling organic plant fertilisers and a helpful website to visit. You can make liquid fertilisers yourself, with little effort but this comes with a warning, since the smell of the macerating greenery, in the case of nettles and comfrey, can be quite... rich? Well, actually, Awful.... Isabel Hardman writing…
Continue reading ➞ Cossack Comfrey, Nettle Nosh and Worm Wee
This simple little confection caught my eye this morning, a jam jar with scented white hyacinth, creamy white narcissus, leaves and... well, something pink - not cherry blossom - I will have to ask the florist! A perfect little posy, capturing Spring.
Narcissus Bridal Crown A double creamy white and yellow narcissus with the most intense fragrance. One of the earliest doubles to flower, and perfect for forcing indoors. One vase will scent a whole room. Two vases might be one too many! It is a heady fragrance.
Cattleya - a small orchid with a colour that packs a punch http://cattleyaorchidsource.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/cattleya-aurantiaca-orange-cattleya.html
Yellow polyanthus, providing some relief from the concentrations of hellebores that are the subject of many recent posts. More Hellebores will there be, but in the meantime, a pause for a dash of yellow, tempered by fresh green foliage. On balance, the yellow primroses and polyanthus are more likely to be scented (closer to the…
Continue reading ➞ Just a dash of yellow…
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