Daily Flower Candy – Echeveria lilacina
We’ve spent the last two days on the Isles of Scilly, a tiny archipelago of islands off the southwestern tip of England. The climate is famously mild but occasionally wild. This suits plants that like...
View ArticlePlant Portraits: Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’
Succulent plants are not everyone’s cup of tea, but one which attracted a lot of admiring glances when we opened our garden for the National Gardens Scheme was Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’. It’s hardly...
View ArticlePolegate Cottage: Three Months On
It’s been three months since we bought the house next door. The idea is to convert The Watch House and Polegate Cottage into one home, giving us a library, an additional bathroom and two more bedrooms...
View ArticleCoughs and Caterpillars: An Hour in the Garden
It’s all going on in the garden right now. The plants have had a sniff of spring and now they are intoxicated, thrusting out of the ground, sending tendrils hither and thither and scrambling up in...
View ArticleMidsummer’s Day Dreaming
What an extraordinary spell of weather we have been having. It’s so hot that I am relieved to be returning home to the coast every evening to enjoy a gin and tonic or glass of chilled rose, as far...
View ArticleWatering in the Rain
“I need to water the garden before it rains!”: I know this sounds ridiculous (it looks even sillier) but rushing to wet the garden before storm-clouds break is surprisingly necessary if you garden,...
View ArticleSurreal Succulents
A visit to Cornwall with a car is a plant buying opportunity extraordinaire. Although I live on the opposite side of the country, nurseries in the South West cater for coastal gardens better than...
View ArticleDaily Flower Candy – Echeveria lilacina
We’ve spent the last two days on the Isles of Scilly, a tiny archipelago of islands off the southwestern tip of England. The climate is famously mild but occasionally wild. This suits plants that like...
View ArticleTime Out At Trengwainton
How time flies! I was just contemplating whether or not it was too soon to write another post about one of my favourite Cornish gardens when I realised that almost eight years have elapsed since I...
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