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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 #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

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 ...

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 ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #1: Allium carinatum subsp. pulchellum
By Michael
Mar 2, 2020

I’m into maximum seasonal change in my garden.  One of the hardest times to achieve that, given that I can’t water the garden at all, is mid to late summer.  Nearly everything is in a drought-in ...