The tulip bulbs have arrived. Not an outrageous quantity, but I’m still going to have a job working out where they’re going to go…

All the fuss about paeonies gets made in late spring…

Plants are still coming into the garden, and it feels as though there’s a sudden burst of energy towards the end of the gardening year…

I’ve been greatly enjoying the change in pace and mood in the garden over the past few days…

Has anyone, I wonder, ever taken a photograph of Dahlia ‘Penhill Watermelon’ in which the subject looked less than spectacular…

The bluecrown passion flower (Passiflora caerulea) is undoubtedly mesmerizing, its blossoms resembling nothing so much as some kind of intricately constructed dessert…

Proof positive that my bear’s breeches do occasionally flower, if you’ll pardon the expression…

Plants that are generous with seeding themselves about can divide opinion, particularly when their munificence gets them branded as weeds…

Since it seems to be a year when persicaria wins the prize for the genus I blog about most often, I might aswell sneak another in before they all go to sleep for the winter…

Parrotia persica, otherwise known as the Persian Ironwood, is one of those plants of whose features I can’t quite decide upon a favourite…