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The bambouseraie [bamboo] garden in southern France had always been on my bucket list. When this year we rented a house just 30 mins drive away, I knew this was a visit that I could tick off the [...]

    Great winter flowering shrubs can shorten winter! Is that overstating it? Well perhaps, but it can certainly make those dark dank days of winter more bearable!   It will be [...]

Seasonal evergreens for Christmas include bay laurel, rosemary, holly and ivy. They all have their place at this time of the year but I do wonder if we sometimes forget how valuable they are in [...]