Galanthus ‘Merlin’, an old snowdrop, is just beginning to bloom [mid January] in my garden now. Of all the hundreds of varieties of snowdrop you might wonder why I’ve chosen to [...]
To grow periwinkle plants is not difficult! They are an easy to please plant that provides effective evergreen ground cover. This results in low maintenance gardening but also is good for nature. [...]
Sweet violets used to be a very popular cut flower. In Victorian times ladies would pin sweet violets to their clothes and hair. The cut flower industry is no more but sweet violets still deserve [...]
West Country Lupins have been developed high up on Exmoor. It’s not the place that I would choose to build a nursery but Woolsery is where that classic of the cottage garden the lupin has [...]
Christmas hellebores often fail to bloom at Christmas. But careful breeding has brought us gardeners a greatly improved hellebore. And one that always flowers before, at and after Christmas! [...]
Growing British apples gives us the opportunity to eat something better! A visit to your local supermarket is unlikely to provide you with much choice and certainly few British varieties. So if [...]
Shorter flowering bulbs are the perfect answer if your garden is exposed to strong winds. There is nothing more irritating than finding tall tulips snapped off by a sudden spring squall. Unless [...]
Are you considering which tomato variety to grow this year? Well I’ll give you some pointers from a relatively recent trial. Shop bought tomatoes in Winter Sadly the home grown crop is [...]
Let’s hear it for ivy but first – Some background info Ivy is a much maligned garden plant. Builders hate it and think [wrongly] that it pulls buildings down. It all too often gets a [...]
To succeed with cyclamen it helps to know what they need! It’s possible to have cyclamen in bloom every month of the year! But I just love the way that they are just so right for this time [...]