Alpine Garden Society Diary – am I incubating galanthophilia?
Why are snowdrops popular and which snowdrops are rare? Diary for the Alpine Garden Society describing why I have a growing passion for snowdrops.
Alpine Garden Society Diary – Planning for the seed exchange
How to choose seeds from the Alpine Garden Society's Seed Exchange
Edelweiss – Lentopodium alpinum
The Edelweiss flower is world-renowned but few would know what they look like. Here I describe how I grow the Edelweiss in a pot, what it looks like and how it has come to be so revered.
How to plant up an alpine trough
This article gives step by step instructions on how to plant alpines in a trough or container and suggested easy to grow alpines to try. Alpine troughs are perfect containers to let your garden design skills run riot, but in a small space. Alpines are small, pretty and above all [...]
Troughs for alpines – how to cover a belfast sink
Rock chicks of the mountains, a traditional stone trough gives alpines their perfect show stage. Aged with moss and lichen, stone can be hard to beat aesthetically but they are expensive. You can create an artificial stone trough cheaply by covering an old sink in a cement-based hypertufa mix. Here's how.