The Joy Of Perfumed Plants
It's summer. That means glorious sunny days with flower-filled gardens and air filled with heady fragrances. I found out by accident that abelias are perfumed Unless you're in [...]
It's summer. That means glorious sunny days with flower-filled gardens and air filled with heady fragrances. I found out by accident that abelias are perfumed Unless you're in [...]
"A garden that is all flowers is like a cake that is all icing." Most of you reading would call it frosting rather than icing, but the sentiment stands: foliage [...]
I think I'm a reasonably competent gardener. I've been gardening for over 25 years now, and for 20 of those years I've been earning my living in nurseries and gardens. [...]
I'd planned a leisurely morning. A bit of gentle pottering around in my own garden, then out later to deal with something at a garden I look after. My phone [...]
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” Wise words from Frances Hodgson Burnett in her much loved novel The Secret Garden. [...]
Many years ago, in a family backyard in Alhambra, California, a 17 year old boy started propagating Camellias with the help of his mother and father. That young man's name [...]
I've been visiting the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Rosemoor in Devon, UK, for 20 years or more now. Over that time I've seen many changes, some grand and some [...]
I'm absolutely amazed by how many plants there are. I know the plants in my garden well; I have paid for them and chose them above others. Yet every time [...]
Years ago I was chastised by my managers for giving nursery customers too much information. In their opinion, although no complaints were ever made, it was inappropriate for an employee [...]
The nature of gardening means that I'm never short of time to think. At this time of year I find myself consciously searching gardens for signs of life, carving out [...]
January is a strange month. I start out having just finished my only actual 'holiday' of the year and it feels like rather a struggle to get going on gardening [...]