Alpine stars of spring
There's an alpine to look good in any season but here are some lovely ones designed to light the touch paper of spring.
Spring flowering shrubs
Spring flowering shrubs are the perfect way to add scent and interest to a garden each spring and provide year round background too.
Spring plants in woodland garden
A woodland setting can provide the perfect backdrop for star plants of spring -narcissi, primula, trilliums and sanguinaria.
Jack Frost’s menace and garden survivors
I've no doubt many of us are feeling the loss of precious buds this week as temperatures dipped unseasonably below freezing. It's that funny time of year that keeps us gardeners on our toes, but how dull would it be if our climate were ploddingly predictable? The British climate can [...]
A bonanza of spring bulbs
Spring bulbs are like little energy grenades waiting until the pin is pulled for a petal explosion. Each year I'm thankful for my autumn plantings.
Rock Garden and Spring Bulbs
My rock garden is a year old and looks better and better as the weeks go by. Spring bulbs are adding pops of colour right now.
Peony, tulips, anemones and seedlings
Some years you can feel spring in the air but with few sunny days and the lingering reach of a cold winter, this year I'm forced to look harder for signs of spring. Plenty is happening in the garden... Paeonia daurica subsp. mlokosewitschii - Peony 'Molly the Witch' The nickname [...]
A new alpine trough for Saxifrages
Planting an alpine trough for saxifrages
Small but perfectly formed – spring flowers
One of my father's favourite phrases - small but perfectly formed. Here's a reminder good things come in small packages.