Blowsy Beauties
Bougainvilleas are passion. Passionately colourful, passionately vibrant - reflecting their life in Spain. They remind me of flouncy flamenco dresses, frilled and ruffled, gorgeously...
NUTS FOR CHRISTMAS
As a child I always had a couple of walnuts and a tangerine tucked into the toe of my Christmas stocking. I wasn´t very...
The Christmas Rose
Of all the flowers associated with Christmas, the Christmas rose is the most delicate and beautiful, as ephemeral as the fairy on...
ROSES ARE RED – AND YELLOW, WHITE, APRICOT AND BLUE!
This year, for the first time at the Garden Centre, we will be selling bare-rooted roses for a short period of time and...
A WHIMSICAL WINTER
The talk of this winter has surely been how strange it is – very warm, loads of sunshine, high temperatures and no rain! It´s...
Agave
Looking around the campo you’ll see, thrusting skyward, what look like giant asparagus tips. These are the developing flower stalks of the agave americanum...
STUNNINGLY STONED!
As the lush growth of springtime slowly shrivels away during the summer, by now, we are often left with the backbones of our gardens....
THE TERRIBLE TRIO
As the year draws towards a close and darker nights arrive, there's doom and gloom in the campo; the terrible trio are with us...
Jumping Plant Lice
I’ve had several enquiries in the garden centre recently about infections to eucalypti, and particularly e. viminalis, which is the type most commonly grown...
