If it’s too early in the year for you to read about autumn colour, you might want to skip today’s post…
Read moreDay 264: crocosmia rationalisation
The crocosmia always presents itself as a prime candidate for removal, splitting and rationalisation at this time of the year
Read moreDay 263: calico aster
I’ve yet to work out quite how asters get around a fairly reliable garden design principle…
Read moreDay 262: neon pothos
Opinion is divided in our house over the neon pothos (Epipremnum aureum ‘Neon’), a controversy second only to that which rages over the colour of the pot…
Read moreDay 261: making new wood
It doesn’t seem to matter how much I know about what happens when you cut a plant, or how many times I’ve carried it out…
Read moreDay 260: the last petunia
The last of the petunias, confirming that I’ll be winning no prizes either for deadheading or container watering this year…
Read moreDay 259: Panicum virgatum 'Warrior'
Of the many reasons to like a plant, its ability to make you smile should surely be close to the top…
Read moreDay 258: Cosmos
The garden’s beginning to take on the tired, satisfied air of one who’s run a hard race and now feels entirely deserving of a stretch, a rest, and a slap up fish supper…
Read moreDay 257: traveller’s joy
Among the many surprising relatives of the humble buttercup, traveller’s joy (Clematis vitalba) is probably one with few pretensions to grandeur…
Read moreDay 256: sea kale
Cabbages get everywhere, from the tiny hairy bittercress in your flowerbeds, to the yellow rape blanketing the countryside in summer, to the mustard leaves in your salad. Here on the beach…
Read moreDay 255: Persicaria capitata
A wander through the streets of Rye where I encounter a persicaria I’d not before met…
Read moreDay 254: Amemone x hybrida ‘Pamina’
Japanese anemone spotting in another’s garden yesterday. This variety seems a little more compact…
Read moreDay 253: Rudbeckia hirta 'Cappuccino'
It rained last night – a proper, stormy downpour, with thunder and lightning – and, though it was all over by the morning, the garden was full of tiny raindrop lenses on every surface…
Read moreDay 252: a sedum worth consideration
was having a conversation earlier in the week about sedums with someone who loves the leaves, but not the flowers…
Read moreDay 251: Rose ‘Gentle Hermione’
A hot day – proper, sunny summer stuff – and the garden is starting to flag a little…
Read moreDay 250: Anemone x hybrida ‘Königin Charlotte’
‘Queen Charlotte’ sounds like a grand name for a windflower, but since the Japanese anemone attains a loftier height than most of its immediate relatives, I think it’s appropriate in this case…
Read moreDay 249: Pelargonium sidoides
Pelargoniums have a reputation for being a bit showy – and deservedly so. There are the zonals, what most of us grew up calling ‘geraniums’…
Read moreDay 248: hazel
The hazel shells are plumping, fresh and pale green on the branch, evidence of a few having been munched lying on the ground…
Read moreDay 247: elderberry memories
To me, nothing quite says ‘Back to School’ like elderberries…
Read moreDay 246: ivy in flower
There’s been a buzz and a fugginess about my wanderings today, in the garden, the streets and the fields…
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