Letting Nature In
Still having issues with the WordPress app on my phone, so now trying to access it via Chrome. My six on Saturday are as follows: 1. Canna x ehemanii This has to be the favourite out of all my Cannas and it miraculously survived outdoors all winter with no protection. The first of what will…
1. Canna warscewiczii I’ve grown these from my own saved seed with very good germination rates. They quickly clump up and flower in their first year from early an sowing (these were sown five months ago in February). Unlike other Canna, I have still not managed to overwinter C. warscewiczii successfully, but no matter when they…
Here is my first ever #SixOnSaturday I thought it was about time I tried this out. I’m pretty busy right now, my final RHS L3 exams are coming up in less than two weeks, there are loads of jobs to do in the garden and I’ve been away in France for work. This seems like…
You get to nose around someone else’s garden – Let’s be honest, who doesn’t like having a good look around other people’s gardens? Unfortunately sometimes the gardens you most want to visit aren’t always open to the public. Well this is where the National Garden Scheme might just come to the rescue, with approximately 3,700 gardens…
When I read of the recent publication of Brilliant and Wild I did not hesitate to order a copy as it seemed to resonate with my interest in the wildlife-friendly new perennial movement. The author, former primary school teacher Lucy Bellamy, trained at the Chelsea Physic Garden and with the RHS and worked as a…
Fascinated at seeing Stapelia in flower for the first time at RHS Chelsea in 2011, I bought some seeds of Stapelia hirsuta from http://www.craighousecacti.co.uk/ to see if I could grow them myself. Commonly called Carrion Flowers, their large flowers emit an unpleasant odour which attracts flies for pollination, sometimes even fooling the flies into laying…
I’ve been meaning to start a blog for ages, when I mention this to other bloggers their immediate response is “do it!”. So this is my blog. It’s probably no surprise that I plan to blog about my passion for plants and all things garden-related. My interests lie in exotic plants as well as in…