Flower Journal
What's this got to do with the Olympics?
Box This week includes box (Buxus) from Surrey as the box in my Dorset garden has been totally demolished by the box tree moth caterpillar. Top of the list of garden...
What's this got to do with the Olympics?
Box This week includes box (Buxus) from Surrey as the box in my Dorset garden has been totally demolished by the box tree moth caterpillar. Top of the list of garden...
Late summer blooms
What's in season? This time last year we were overrun with zinnias. They are just making an appearance now in mum's garden but it has been harder to get them...
Late summer blooms
What's in season? This time last year we were overrun with zinnias. They are just making an appearance now in mum's garden but it has been harder to get them...
Which ingredient is related to the iris?
Crocrosmia Or montbretia, originates from the grasslands of Southern and East Africa. It has striking, unusual orange flowers and is easy to grow in gardens, sometimes to the point...
Which ingredient is related to the iris?
Crocrosmia Or montbretia, originates from the grasslands of Southern and East Africa. It has striking, unusual orange flowers and is easy to grow in gardens, sometimes to the point...
Time for rasberry 'scoop' scabious
A taste of summer. A bevy of summer beauties in here including the first of the asters and hypericum. The raspberry and blackberry 'scoop' scabious are grown by Highcroft Nurseries and...
Time for rasberry 'scoop' scabious
A taste of summer. A bevy of summer beauties in here including the first of the asters and hypericum. The raspberry and blackberry 'scoop' scabious are grown by Highcroft Nurseries and...
100% British grown flowers and foliage in our p...
Locally grown flowers This week many of the flowers have come from the Cat and Fiddle PYO farm where their drip-watering system has kept the crops hydrated through this very...
100% British grown flowers and foliage in our p...
Locally grown flowers This week many of the flowers have come from the Cat and Fiddle PYO farm where their drip-watering system has kept the crops hydrated through this very...
Which flower is named after an ancient Sicilian...
Lysimachia These pretty white flower spikes are a type of loosestrife, named after a Sicilian king who was said to have fed it to a mad ox to calm...
Which flower is named after an ancient Sicilian...
Lysimachia These pretty white flower spikes are a type of loosestrife, named after a Sicilian king who was said to have fed it to a mad ox to calm...