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PLANT OF THE WEEK #6: Cotinus 'Grace'
By Michael
Apr 7, 2020
It takes a lot to make me love a shrub. I fully acknowledge and am grateful for the critical role shrubs play in the anatomy of a good garden, but I rarely really love them. Cotinu
PLANT OF THE WEEK #5: Pachystegia insignis
By Simon
Mar 31, 2020
Whenever people visit my garden, without fail the most asked-after plant is the Marlborough rock daisy (Pachystegia insignis).  The Marlborough rock daisy is exactly what it says
PLANT OF THE WEEK #4: Clematis maximowicziana
By Michael
Mar 24, 2020
You’ve really got to love a shrub or climber that waits until now to do something really big, blousy and generous.  There’s not that many of them.  Most that flower now have

PLANT OF THE WEEK #5: Pachystegia insignis
By Simon
Mar 31, 2020

Whenever people visit my garden, without fail the most asked-after plant is the Marlborough rock daisy (Pachystegia insignis).  The Marlborough rock daisy is exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #4: Clematis maximowicziana
By Michael
Mar 24, 2020

You’ve really got to love a shrub or climber that waits until now to do something really big, blousy and generous.  There’s not that many of them.  Most that flower now have been doing their thi ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #3: Beschorneria septentrionalis
By Kate
Mar 17, 2020

What a great plant. Despite being stuck with a tongue-twister of a Latin name – Beschorneria septentrionalis is year-round one of the neatest, most reliable foliage plants in my garden. Its mid-gree ...

The aesthetics of austerity
By Michael
Mar 16, 2020

Last week I spent a few days in and around Adelaide.  There were some gardens there that I needed to see.  I’d been aware of Kurt Wilkinson’s garden, Brenton Robert’s garden and Sarah Budarick ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #2: Verbena rigida
By Michael
Mar 10, 2020

I can’t tell you how grateful I am, right now, to Verbena rigida.  And what I used to find most annoying about it is now the very thing I’m most grateful for. It has been described as a miniature ...