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PLANT OF THE WEEK #34: Pulsatilla vulgaris
By Matt Reed
Oct 20, 2020
Being the impatient gardener I am, sitting out the winter months in Kinglake longing for spring to arrive is a long drawn out process. Winter arrives here in early May and continue
PLANT OF THE WEEK #33: Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae
By Richard
Oct 13, 2020
“I’m just going to check out the plant stall,” I said to my wife. She looked at me and raised an eyebrow. “Da-aad,” chorused my daughters with a note of despair – “no
PLANT OF THE WEEK #32: Psephellus (Centaurea) bellus
By James
Oct 6, 2020
Sometimes you don’t love a plant straight away.  Sometimes you first have to go through the process of getting to know it, like a kind of courtship, becoming familiar with its q

PLANT OF THE WEEK #33: Euphorbia amygdaloides var. robbiae
By Richard
Oct 13, 2020

“I’m just going to check out the plant stall,” I said to my wife. She looked at me and raised an eyebrow. “Da-aad,” chorused my daughters with a note of despair – “no more plants!” But ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #32: Psephellus (Centaurea) bellus
By James
Oct 6, 2020

Sometimes you don’t love a plant straight away.  Sometimes you first have to go through the process of getting to know it, like a kind of courtship, becoming familiar with its quirks and quibbles b ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #31: Quercus robur
By Michael
Sep 29, 2020

The English oak, in the UK, was once known as the ‘tree of peace’.  If this term fills you with thoughts of sunny afternoons, picnicking safely in the vast, enveloping embrace of its gargantuan c ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #30: Tulipa clusiana
By Michael
Sep 22, 2020

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PLANT OF THE WEEK #29: Viburnum davidii
By Simon
Sep 15, 2020

In my last piece for Plant of the Week, I name-checked two French missionaries who worked in China, and were responsible for introducing several plants many of us think of as ‘British’ into hortic ...