The very first clematis I planted is now affectionately known as Clematis “Something Else” as I lost the original label. I was nervous about getting clematis, I hadn’t any experience …

Strelitzia Reginae or the “Bird of Paradise” is one of my favourite plants and I am currently growing one from seed, expecting it to flower in the winter of 2015-2016. …

I’ve recently turned my attention to the front garden. I usually don’t spend a great deal of time on it as we barely see it, however, there is one area …

Digitalis (Foxgloves) are biennial, meaning they take one year to grow the leaves and then flower, set seed and die by the end of the second year. If you sow …

In my previous post, I talked of someone stopping by the front garden to take pictures even though the front isn’t really photogenic at the moment; it’s just masses of …

Sometimes, it’s the simple things that can make me happy. For example, in the evening, as I was setting up the table and chairs on the patio at the back …

The Rosa Gertrude Jekyll is quickly becoming one of those star plants where you wonder why everybody doesn’t have one. Despite regularly cutting the flowers to bring inside for the …

We have a ceanothus (or California Lilac – unknown variety) that now has bright blue blobs of flower all over it. I’m not sure if it supposed to be a …