Groves Sweet Violets
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 [...]
Top Ten Scented Winter Garden Plants
Many of my top ten scented winter garden plants are mostly shrubs. But if you read on you’ll see that they are not all woody plants. What they all have in common is that they are remarkably [...]
Winter scented flowers during lockdown
Winter scented flowers during the Coronavirus lockdown seem more intense. As I take my daily exercise I’ve been struck by how important plant scent is. My daily walk takes me past gardens [...]
By Alan Down
In Evergreens, Gardening, New Varieties, Plant Focus, Plant Review, Scented plants, Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs, Winter colour
Posted What Skimmia plant should you grow
What Skimmia plant should you grow? Skimmia shrubs will not stop you in your tracks with showy bright blooms. They’re not the most eye catching shrub in a planting scheme – that is [...]