Favourite Flower Friday
Tree lilies I acquired these lovely oriental lilies from Thompson & Morgan several years ago. The bulbs and their offspring have travelled with me to three different gardens from that time. […]
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Garden Visiting
Last week I went away for a few days and as always my trip included garden visiting. We called in on fellow Cottage Garden Society member Rachel Helfer’s garden in […]
Favourite Flower Friday
I’m not usually a fan of bedding plants, but I ordered this striking Petunia Surfinia ‘Green Edge Pink’, as a pack of plug plants from Suttons 2015 catalogue in early […]
Sunday Snap
I enjoy making decorative scarecrows to put in in my veg plot – sometimes to photograph, but often just for fun. This was my first attempt, made back in my Kingston […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Astrantia major ‘Florence’ – the pink masterwort This is pretty perennial has pincushion flowers that first appeared in late May in my garden. The plants look particularly good in shady borders. […]
Decorative Cane Tops
One of my big fears in gardening is accidentally poking my eye with bamboo cane or a sharp clipped branch, so I have the national collection of cane tops in […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Aquilegia ‘Tower Light Blue’ This pale blue double aquilegia has just finished flowering in my mum’s garden, so I have carefully collected the seed and will distribute it around her […]
Saxifraga stolonifera, the strawberry saxifrage
This unassuming little plant still causes me to blush when I see it… all over my garden. Years ago when I was an even less knowledgeable gardener than I am […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Papaver orientale ‘Harlem’ Family and friends witter on about P. orientale ‘Patty’s Plum’ all the time, but I think this poppy is far nicer. Its petals are a dark, burgundy […]
Snapdragon Jules 