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Bracknell prairie - September to November

The last blog left the prairie at the end of August By mid September, new colours...

Best for bees

What is the best flower for bees? That was one of the questions at a talk I attended...

Bracknell prairie - July and August

This is the third in a series of blogs about the prairie planting in my front garden....

Gardens of Dumfries and Galloway

I recently travelled north from Bracknell for a short break, looking at gardens in...

Not open this year

I recently visited a garden in Bracknell that has opened for the NGS. I soon wondered...

Sun in the garden

One slight disadvantage of growing unusual plants can be the lack of information...

Bracknell prairie - April to June

Back in March, I wrote a blog on how I had replanted my front garden as a prairie....

What's your point of view?

I recently posted a photo of a flower in the main border in my back garden, geum...

Some like it pink

According to Wikipedia, “Trillium is a genus of perennial flowering plants native...

Bracknell prairie - planting day

While parts of the country had heavy rain today, here in balmy Bracknell it was cloudy...

Corydalis corner

A few years ago, I planted paeonia delavayi in memory of my mother. I was visiting...

An unlikely berberis relative

We all know berberis shrubs, often big unruly monsters with vicious thorns (which...