Whilst waffling enthusiastically on about the Sabra spike sage that I’ve not yet written a post on Salvia x involucrata ‘Hadspen’…
Read moreDay 331: Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy'
Still on the subject of trees for small gardens, Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ deserves a place towards the top of the list…
Read moreDay 330: the fluffiness of asters
Of all the many reasons to grow asters, their fluffy button-ness rarely gets a mention…
Read moreDay 329: Malus ‘Adirondack’
Named for the mountain range, rather than the garden furniture style icons, Malus halliana ‘Adirondack’ …
Read moreDay 328: chocolate cosmos
Chocolate cosmos (Cosmos atrosanguineus) is still in flower in the borders…
Read moreDay 327: Sabra spike sage
The Sabra spike sage (Salvia confertiflora) is a whopper of a salvia hailing from Brazil…
Read moreDay 326: fire
The cold snap is moving in, and this gardener is in need of warming. Energetically raking up leaves creates a comfortable glow inside…
Read moreDay 325: winter greens
Almost t-shirt weather in the garden again today, pleasant gardening weather if a little gloomy…
Read moreDay 324: foxglove preparation
Foxgloves know all about preparation – the biennial ones at least, like our bog standard Digitalis purpurea…
Read moreDay 323: birch leaves
I don’t care that some think of the silver birch Betula pendula as a weed tree…
Read moreDay 322: the yellowness of the ginkgo
It’s been raining gold from clear blue skies this past day or so…
Read moreDay 321: the West Ham bush
Returning to a familiar garden today, I noticed a shrub I’d whose presence I’d never before remarked upon…
Read moreDay 320: the overwintered pelargonium
November is no time for reticence or squeamishness, at least, not when it comes to pelargoniums…
Read moreDay 319: making room for tulips
Rarely, if ever, moved to dig a tulip up, I just shovel more in every autumn…
Read moreDay 318: hunting the tulip tree
Studying leaves on the footpath a few days ago, surprised to see the unmistakable form of tulip tree foliage…
Read moreDay 317: Echinacea ‘White Swan’
Echinacea ‘White Swan’ has got her feet down now, which I was expecting, as an early autumn planting…
Read moreDay 316: essential objects
One object that you can’t imagine getting through your day without, whose absence would send you into a flat spin…
Read moreDay 315: waiting for hips
I am doing a poor impression of a patient person while waiting for the hips on the dog rose to form…
Read moreDay 314: bull thistle
The bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare) that plonked itself into the back of the new bed has run its course though…
Read moreDay 313: garden milestones
I guess as gardeners, we all measure the passing of the year by the behaviour of certain plants…
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