I am a recent convert to Helenium I must admit but since finding them am an avid fan. They are one of those wonderful daisy shapes that looks good coming into, in flower and in the final demise. It also comes in a good many options in the yellow/orange/red spectrum.
Named for Helen […]
I wouldn’t have said I was an enthusiast before I started writing this but it turns out I am rather fond of the Salvia family. Oddly I don’t much like the common or garden sage grown by many to eat, too perfumed for me, although I suspect I wouldn’t fault it in a bit of […]
Plant of the month in May will always be an Iris for me, closely followed I will admit by a Peony. The only way to describe it is that I got into Irises by accident which you can read about in more depth Continue Reading →
Winter drags on and even when the Snowdrops kick of the growing season there are still a good few weeks of often miserable weather lurking around the corner. The arrival of each flush of flowers in these months is most welcome and if planned well you can suddenly find yourself with a burst of rich […]
Way out west it was too, all the way over in South Kensington on the west of London town. The best of spring days, with the sun out and the skies blue as could be. Trees coming into blossom and plenty of cheery visitors, despite Wednesdays terrible attacks in Westminster. We’re Londoners, even […]
Dahlia has become something of a byword for cool of late, bolstered in some measure by flower power gurus, Sarah Raven, Blue Carrot, the fabulous Erin at Floret and a whole slew of other luscious flower champions and I like many have become enamored, nay completely overtaken by an […]
I always have great plans for preserves and jamming as much of my produce and foraging as possible as the seasons roll around but last year everything well to hell in a hand basket as life stopped for our RHS Tatton Show Garden. In theory it was only July but in practice it was most […]
I’m on the hunt again. New gloves and glovey recommendations. I run through gardening gloves like a dose of salts they never last too long with my line of work and of course the well known pointy finger syndrome. I usually go through the top of at least one finger in a month of wearings […]
