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.
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.
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 [...]
Planting an alpine trough for saxifrages
One of my father's favourite phrases - small but perfectly formed. Here's a reminder good things come in small packages.
They're up early, enjoying the sunshine and showing their pretty colours and markings - the spring crocuses have cast a spell on me.
Gardening highs and lows - some pretty spring flowers and some mouse-eaten crocuses. This week's blog also stars an edible dormouse.
Freezing temps have frozen progress in the garden but a few bulbs in the greenhouse are showing off including handsome crocus Ronald Ginns.
The garden is slowly cranking into action. I can hear the starter motor begin to whirr. Here are 6 things sparking my tired brain this week.
Meet six special snowdrops. Introducing Galanthus Trymming, Yashmak, Anglesey Orange Tip, Godfrey Owen, Diggory & Primrose Warburg.