The string-of-hearts or sweetheart vine (Ceropegia woodii) is a perfect houseplant for those who might be a little forgetful…
Read moreDay 17: beech
All credit to the beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) for giving us blocks of soft, coppery brown throughout winter…
Read moreDay 16: borlotti beans
The beautiful borlotti bean, its white pods and beans splashed liberally with vermillion…
Read moreDay 15: berberis
Loathed by gardeners for its evil thorns that will penetrate the thickest of gloves…
Read moreDay 14: sarcococca
Throwing open the back door, I’m greeting by a rich, sweet scent…
Read moreDay 13: goosegrass
Without doubt one of the true survivors, stems of goosegrass, or cleavers, or (my favourite) ‘Sticky Willy’…
Read moreDay 12: pelargonium shoots
Around now, all being well, you should be being rewarded with fresh new growth on your pelargoniums…
Read moreDay 11: jade necklace vine
Some plants are simply fascinating with their sheer originality of colour and form, and building a collection of house plants allows you to get up close and personal with some truly different specimens…
Read moreDay 10: eryngium
Our second spiny customer this week, the sea holly, Eryngium giganteum…
Read moreDay 9: buying seeds
Have you bought your seeds yet? I’ve yet to inventory my current collection…
Read moreDay 8: signs of life
I don’t know why winter gets such a bad rap for being a time of inactivity…
Read moreDay 7: mahonia
With its holly-like leaflets and often tall, imposing stature, Mahonia stands about for much of the year looking like a prickly garden cousin of the nightclub bouncer…
Read moreDay 6: hairy bittercress
Hairy bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta, is a tiny cousin of the cabbage that grows with remarkable success right through winter…
Read moreDay 5: bare-root roses
They don’t look much just now – a bundle of prickly sticks with a tangle of brown roots….
Read moreDay 4: beauty in the wreckage
Beauty in the wreckage, Dan Pearson calls it. The dead stuff you could have tidied away in autumn…
Read moreDay 3: galvanised steel
Blue-grey, white fleckled, preferably with a bit of moss and algae – there’s nothing quite like the patina of galvanised steel in the garden, particularly in winter…
Read moreDay 2: dogwood
#gardeninspo365 Day 2 – dogwood
Read moreDay 1: tulips
gardeninspo365 Day 1 – tulips
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