Bigbumblebee's Garden

As much as I love ferns, I do have extreme difficulty remembering their names. This one is obviously a 'cri...

Very similar in form and colouring to 'Luxury Lace' but has a smoother petal edge and less blue toning...

Horticulturally and aesthetically growing in the wrong place, but it seems to be thriving. It's too big to ...

Found it difficult to find a place where this was happy. Last year's single flowering scape was a miserable...

Planted at the front of the border, but it regularly grows taller than the registered height so tends to lean fo...

A little different to most Aquilegias, species skinnerii has almost fern-like, semi-evergreen foliage. The flowe...

In cultivation this is a bushy, upright shrub of approx.10ft with narrow, strongly veined, deep green leaves. Co...

Mid season bloomer, scapes reaching up to Im. A good, all-round reliable performer.

Variable hybrid, grows up to 24". Branched flower stems produce bright pink flowers all summer.

Two more plants of this tiny Erodium have been set in gaps between the patio paving stones. All are doing well.

Hardy fuchsia, found growing in the wild in milder areas. One of the earliest to flower. Can grow to a height of...

Smaller, more slender flower than the type, with larger leaved foliage. Reputedly more floriferous than magellan...

In my opinion, the best of the single whites. Slow to clump up, and a short season, but well worth it.

Vigorous, clump-forming hardy perennial. Grows to a height of 1m. Suitable for bedding, large rock gardens, or p...

Similar to 'Bishop's form' but with softer, very strongly scented foliage and taller growing. Too...

A low-growing hardy perennial, about 8 ins. tall, spreading by rhizomes. Abundant cup-shaped pink flowers with...

Very uncertain about this one. Growing in semi-shade, it reaches an average 2ft 6ins every year, and flops if no...

Rhizomatous, wide-spreading. If cut hard back after flowering will often produce a second flush of smaller flowe...

I grow about half a dozen of these every year, starting them in pots then transplanting to the garden.

Just one, and my favourite, of about a dozen I have in various places in the garden. This cultivar is 'Flor...

This deciduous shrub from the Himalayas will reach 8 ft tall x 6 ft wide. It has a woody stem, leafy chains of p...

Close-up showing frond formation.

Not sure which cultivar this is. It was bought as 'Holger' but the characteristic white tips of that o...

This is a much more startling colour in real life. Slow to clump up and produce appreciable flowering scapes, bu...

a relatively narrow, 6ft species with stems that arch at the top. Starry 2.5in wide white flowers with a small c...

Native to Japan and Taiwan, this shrub produces variable leaves, some toothed like holly leaves and others tooth...

Washed pebbles make an interesting filler for oddly shaped spaces between hard landscaping.

Otherwise known as 'Pink bubbles'. A lively plant that happily scrambles everywhere, sun or shade, and...

This is a close-up of the unusual flowers.

Unable to name this in full as it doesn't match any of the varietal descriptions for Phlomis. The closest i...

Not quite so easy to find as the more popular 'Red robin' this sturdy shrub/small tree can grow to 3m ...

Similar to Papaver orientale, it is a perennial with 1m tall flower stems and 18in long, pinnate leaves. The fol...

David Austin O.E. rose. Not intended to be a climber, but found itself in the shade and headed upwards! Gorgeous...

Trying this for the first time this year. I thought the white flowers would make a nice change, and was told tha...

Fully frost-hardy, evergreen perennial.Bears slender spikes of small cream flowers, lightly streaked purple, in ...

A tough, undemanding plant for woodlands or near water. Forms a clump approx 24in. high.

This low, mounding shrub bears rose-pink flowers from spring to mid-summer.'Goldflame' is popular for ...

The golden flowers of Tutsan are followed by globular red fruits that ripen to black. The common name is a corru...

An arching, deciduous shrub, it can grow to 10 ft. or more. Grown for it's lavish display of rose pink, tru...