Blogs on herbaceous perennials

Plant watching

I think many of us watch a developing bud and marvel in the final fully opened flower. But do we really take much notice? I...

July sunshine - mainly Phlox

One of these days I will take some lessons in photography! Meanwhile this is the best I can do . . . Phlox carolina 'Magnificence' Phlox...

Erodiums

BY JOHN BEAULIEU (pronounced BOWL-you) I don't think Erodiums are as popular as they should be, but being a Hardy Geranium...

Bloomin' Erodiums

All the plants in the garden are now snug under two and a half feet of insulating snow. In a heated section of my garage...

Kazakhstan Revisited (6) - Eremurus

I wanted to put eremurus in their own blog as we saw several different ones, and they are such unusual plants. If you’ve...

Geranium pyrenaicum

By John Beaulieu (Bowl-you) I have mentioned that I have many what I call ‘wild and weedy’ types of hardy geraniums. This...

"Painting with flowers"

I have a somewhat useless talent-only helpful if I need to match something, like paint or fabric. I can 'hold' a colour in...

Inula Magnifica

Six inch daisies on six foot plus plants with leaves in excess of 18 inches. It took its time coming into flower but they...

Herbaceous borders at Parham, Sussex

Visited Parham Gardens near Storrington, Sussex and took a few pictures of their series of well-stocked herbaceous borders...

Centaurea Macrocephela 14.7.12

While all around it are collapsing C. macrocephala is standing tall and proud. It has withstood all that the weather could...

banana flowers for Drc762

banana flowers are huge and very lovely and extremely interesting-I thought you might like to see these pictures =)

Are we sure it's October??

Clearing up the garden began this week. Going round the garden cutting back, tidying up and mulching this is what I have...

A very pink blog!

I seem to have a lot of pink flowers in bloom in my garden at the moment, so here are some of them. This is my absolute...

The Life and Times of an Echinea Flower

This is going to be a bit of a random blog. Anyway a few months ago I got a lovely Echinea plant which is now happily growing...

Outstanding Thalictrum

I wrote a blog earlier this year, about a Thalictrum that I was recommending. It recently flowered, and I managed to get...

Half Term Report

As we're now well into the summer I thought that I would do a blog on the successes and let downs so far. As far as the let...

Sunlight on the garden

I took some pics tonight and words fail me as how beautiful our flowers are in evening sunlight. The pics are mainly of salvias...

Why i love the way i garden..

I like to pack the plants in and i love leaf shape as much as flowers, The way they mingle and cross over and through each...

Campanula trachelium

Do you know campanula trachelium? It's known as the nettle-leaved bellflower and it's a British native. It grows up to three...

Dicentra and my growing genus.

I have liked dicentra for many years and like many people started off with Dicentra spectabilis then I progressed to D. spectabilis...

Another useful and beautiful set of plants.

I was going to wait until all my Erysimums were in flower before I wrote this blog-but as I have photos of them from previous...

And now for something completely different.

Oh, I am so tired of frozen ground, cold winds and dead plants. So I'm going to change the subject and tell you about a...

Plants with a very long flowering season

Over the years I’ve been asked by my customers and other people on gardening forums about plants with a long flowering season...

New daylilies

Well I've had a busy day today clearing all the dead foliage from the daylily bed, and planning yet another extension, summer...

Taking Cuttings For SparklySocks

*Sparklysocks asked me for step by step instructions for taking cuttings from her Penstemons. 1 Choose a non flowering shoot...

My Favourites of the Year

OK, I know it's maybe a little early to be getting all reflective, but I'm, cold, wet and peed off (excuse the wee vulgarity),...

Another Re-vamp.

Remember when I took the Cistus out and re-vamped the bed? Well-it's full of colour now-which made the smaller bed at the...

HOT, HOT, HOT!

Well, the weather may not be, at least not here in Somerset, but my hot border is...errrr...HOT. Come over here and I'll...

Teasels

According to the Farlex Freee Online dictionary, the teasel is an "Upright prickly biennial herb, native to Europe and Asia....

Day lillies are go!

Last year I had a good show of these lovely flowers ... many of whom I got from a local plant sale for a few pence so they...

Hardy Geraniums for new Rose Border

Been and bought some more Hardy Geraniums for the new rose border, need to see more roses before I can choose which ones...

Salvias

Several years ago, some friends took us to Wisley and in the shop, I found a wonderful plant in bloom, which turned out to...

June daze...

After our winter of "Snow-on-Snow" this last month has been "sun and more sun" so can't complain... and so far there hasn't...

Gardeners World Live part 2

Back again with part 2. This includes the Best in Show garden which was a fantastic design of, from what I could see, three...

heucheramania

Since seeing Heucheras on this site I have fallen hook line and sinker as they say. In a sunny interval today I took photographs...

Geraniums - AGAIN!

Back in August, I wrote a blog about hardy geraniums. No, NOT Pelargoniums-those are the ones tucked away in frost-free...

BRESSINGHAM GARDENS - A mecca for lovers of herbaceous perennials

Hopefully, to give a bit of light relief to all the snow stuff that's dominating the site recently, I thought some of you...

HOW PLANTS ARE NAMED

For those who are a bit confused by all of the long plant names that some of us seem to recite, I thought I would try and...

Garden colour inspiration - New Feature

Hello all, We sort of hinted this was coming when Majeekahead asked for colour search a few days ago... we have just put...

Salvias, Salvias, Salvias!

You might have guessed from the heading of this blog that I decided to write about...my Salvias! My love for these plants...