Dahlias break out
For years, I’ve kept my love of dahlias safely contained. Trying to grow them in borders proved impossible as plants . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #97
There’s nothing quite like the fragrance of honeysuckle.
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IQ Quarry Garden lives on after RHS Chatsworth
Cotswold designer Paul Hervey-Brooke’s award-winning IQ Quarry Garden has found a new home at the National Memorial Arboretum. He talks . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #96
Alstroemeria in the rain.
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Tomatoes: tried and tasted
It’s been a fantastic year for tomatoes. After last season’s blight-hit summer, I’ve had a bumper crop, managed to dodge . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #95
Tulipa ‘Toyota’
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A taste of heritage apples
With Apple Day approaching, I’ve been out to Snowshill Manor to find out about their heritage apples. It’s the names . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #94
The simple elegance of a pelargonium.
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James Alexander-Sinclair talks Chelsea, design and some lucky falls
“Rosa ‘Mutabilis’,” says James Alexander-Sinclair decisively when I ask for his favourite plant. He then adds that yesterday it was . . .
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Cheering up Mondays #93
An autumn star.
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