I remember being blown away when James Van Sweden, speaking in Melbourne in 1989 about his huge plantings of perennials in the USA, told us that many of his clients found that thei
I don’t think there are many plants that make me go weak at the knees. I wish there were more. It’s plantings that are more likely to do if for me – great combinations of p
I don’t think there are many plants that make me go weak at the knees. I wish there were more. It’s plantings that are more likely to do if for me – great combinations of plants, bouncing off ...
Some time in the next couple of weeks – if these berserk winds don’t blow it over first – I’ll flower, for the first time, the very proud and stately Verbascum splendidum. The build up has b ...
Just before Christmas I was telling a friend that I’d spotted and lusted over a stunning plant of Clematis x jackmanii ‘Superba’ in our local nursery, and, though I’d planned to plant one in t ...
Some plants just make you ache. There’s thousands of plants I like, hundreds that I love, and just a few that can make my heart skip a beat – plants that hold my attention for ages, and then hav ...
Car troubles yesterday had me walking home from the garage. I didn’t regret this at all, as I’d spotted one or two Gladiolus tristis in the grass on the side of the road from the car, and I wa ...