Very Betty
Our guest speaker at The Cottage Garden Society AGM this year was Neil Lucas, of Knoll Gardens fame. I funded the lecture on the condition that we would call it […]
Tag Archives: perennial
The Year of the Clematis
Each gardening season I seem to find myself suddenly fixated on a plant type, and before I know it I have started to accumulate several of them. Last year it […]
Pretty and compact Honeysuckle
I received this Honeysuckle ‘Chic and Choc’ for review from Suttons earlier this year. Available by mail order, when mine arrived I was concerned that it looked a little small […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Diascia Diascias are popular as colourful, floriferous and trouble-free bedding – I can see why. These ones in mum’s garden were bought from her local market in early spring and […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Geranium ‘Bill Wallis’ I first bought this hardy geranium from Stillingfleet Lodge Nursery in York many years ago. He has followed me everywhere since then like a faithful hound, hopping […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Eryngium giganteum ‘Miss Willmott’s Ghost’. This striking perennial has attractive grey-green foliage and looks lovely in my garden next to the bright green of my euphorbia. The plant is aptly named, for at dusk its […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Echinacea Purpurea i long to have this beautiful plant all over my garden, but it just doesn’t want to be here. I bought the one below last year and after […]
Favourite Flower Friday
Hardy Geranium ‘Havana Blues’ This beautiful geranium is sprawling all over my borders at the moment. Courtesy of Hayloft Plants, the flowers are a luminous blue with striking deep purple […]
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. […]
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 