Hedging your bets
I often get asked for advice on hedging, both for boundaries and delineating various parts of the garden. October is an excellent month to...
THAT AESTIVATING FEELING
We all know that feeling when the mercury edges over 35C - we just want to find as cool a corner as possible and...
MIRABILIS JALAPA.
Few plants can have as many common names as mirabilis jalapa! Some of those you’ll hear most frequently, though are there are many more...
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...
BEYOND THE PURPLE
We all love daisies for their simple smiley faces and especially those that flower through mid-summer! From our earliest...
A DINOSAUR OF A TREE – THE QUEENSLAND BOTTLE TREE
One of the most fantastical trees, for me, has to be the brachychitonrupestris, Queensland bottle tree or kurrajoong and, luckily, it's one...
SMALL POTS BUT BIG POWER PART 2
Following on from last month's article on more unusual herbs that cure, here is part 2. We have these plants, mentioned in the two...
The Rainbow Flower Bearded Iris Iris Germanica
Some 300 species of iris are known, many of them native to Northern Europe and found in a vast range of habitats, from...
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...
