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Plant watching

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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...

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seaburngirl

23 Jul, 2021
Seaburngirl

July sunshine - mainly Phlox

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

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sheilabub

16 Jul, 2021
Sheilabub

Erodiums

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

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bowl_you

3 Sep, 2017
Bowl_you

Bloomin' Erodiums

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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...

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bowl_you

7 Jan, 2014
Bowl_you

Kazakhstan Revisited (6) - Eremurus

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

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AndrewR

19 Jul, 2013
Andrewr

Geranium pyrenaicum

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

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bowl_you

25 Jun, 2013
Bowl_you

"Painting with flowers"

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

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spritzhenry

26 Oct, 2012
Spritzhenry

Inula Magnifica

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

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scotsgran

10 Sep, 2012
Scotsgran

Herbaceous borders at Parham, Sussex

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

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inverglen

29 Jul, 2012
Inverglen

Centaurea Macrocephela 14.7.12

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

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scotsgran

15 Jul, 2012
Scotsgran

banana flowers for Drc762

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

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cate

24 Oct, 2011
Cate

Are we sure it's October??

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

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scottish

13 Oct, 2011
Scottish

A very pink blog!

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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...

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spritzhenry

25 Sep, 2011
Spritzhenry

The Life and Times of an Echinea Flower

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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...

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samjp

20 Sep, 2011
Samjp

Outstanding Thalictrum

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

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jasonf

18 Aug, 2011
Jasonf

Half Term Report

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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...

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meanie

18 Aug, 2011
Meanie

Sunlight on the garden

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

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lulu33

14 Aug, 2011
Lulu33

Why i love the way i garden..

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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...

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youngdaisydee

5 Aug, 2011
Youngdaisydee

Campanula trachelium

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

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AndrewR

27 Jun, 2011
Andrewr

Dicentra and my growing genus.

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

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seaburngirl

12 Apr, 2011
Seaburngirl

Another useful and beautiful set of plants.

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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...

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spritzhenry

21 Mar, 2011
Spritzhenry

And now for something completely different.

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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...

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spritzhenry

29 Jan, 2011
Spritzhenry

Plants with a very long flowering season

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

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anchorman

20 Nov, 2010
Anchorman

New daylilies

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

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simbad

6 Nov, 2010
Simbad

Taking Cuttings For SparklySocks

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

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PANSYPOTTER

16 Oct, 2010
Pansypotter

My Favourites of the Year

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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),...

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meanie

14 Sep, 2010
Meanie

Another Re-vamp.

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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...

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spritzhenry

14 Aug, 2010
Spritzhenry

HOT, HOT, HOT!

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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...

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spritzhenry

8 Aug, 2010
Spritzhenry

Teasels

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

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kowhai

19 Jul, 2010
Kowhai

Day lillies are go!

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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...

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fluff

11 Jul, 2010
Fluff

Hardy Geraniums for new Rose Border

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

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oliveoil

7 Jul, 2010
Oliveoil

Salvias

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

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kowhai

2 Jul, 2010
Kowhai

June daze...

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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...

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clematisa

23 Jun, 2010
Clematisa

Gardeners World Live part 2

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

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bornagain

22 Jun, 2010
Bornagain

heucheramania

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

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scotsgran

13 Jun, 2010
Scotsgran

Geraniums - AGAIN!

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

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spritzhenry

12 Jan, 2010
Spritzhenry

BRESSINGHAM GARDENS - A mecca for lovers of herbaceous perennials

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

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bluespruce

21 Dec, 2009
Bluespruce

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...

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AndrewR

21 Feb, 2008
Andrewr

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...

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ajay

16 Jan, 2008
Ajay

Salvias, Salvias, Salvias!

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

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spritzhenry

23 Aug, 2007
Spritzhenry