Kowhai's Blog archive

Spring has truly sprung

This year everything seems to be out of kilter, thanks in part to a very late Easter,...

Blossom time

Despite the worst winter in decades, and despite its malign effects on the cordilyne...

A Hymn to Hellebores

I promise that this is the last blog on hellebores! Slowly over the years I've been...

Snow Drops : a spring bonus

This is being a remarkably good year for snow drops, although it is said that they...

Helleborus Walberton's Rosemary

I am in danger of becoming a Hell of a bore about Helleborus. In my last blog,...

Spring is here!

Yes, spring definitely is here and the garden really is starting to come to life....

The gardening year has started!

After a pretty bleak, and at times snow covered period of some months, things in...

Snowtime

It's quite difficult to remember that a few weeks ago I was in the balmy, if very...

Tropical garden

I've just spent a week staying in a resort hotel at Da Nang, Vietnam. This sounds...

Early summer in Australia

Am in second week in Oz, having spent the w/end with friends in Sydney. Here in...

A dramatic splash of colour

As reported in recent blogs, the garden is in a bit of a limbo at the moment, with...

Autumn in the air

It's some time since I wrote my last blog, and, basically, not much has happened...