Browsing Tag

flowers

  • Colours of Tanzania

    Tweet One of the things I loved discovering in Tanzania was how, when you’re not on safari (when you should stick to light-coloured clothes and avoid black or blue because it attracts the Tsetse flies, which…

    April 22, 2015
  • Chelsea Flower Show 2013 – my favourite gardens

    Tweet On Tuesday I went along to the Chelsea Flower Show 2013. I’m ashamed to say that despite the fact that I’m a South West Londoner born and bred, this was my first visit…

    May 23, 2013
  • Send me forget-me-nots

    Tweet Our garden (and patio) is absolutely covered in forget-me-nots right now – I don’t mean plantain (not the banana kind), which have darker blue flowers and big leaves and are actually weeds and…

    May 5, 2013
  • Chelsea flowers

    Tweet London is looking so festive at the moment. Bunting is being put up everywhere in preparation for the Diamond Jubilee, and of course this week’s it’s been the Chelsea Flower Show. I was in…

    May 25, 2012
  • Easter rhododendron

    Tweet This rhododendron started off as purple, but this year, as you can see, it’s gone quite pink. The stamen look like pearls, don’t they?…

    April 8, 2012
  • Red Hot Pokers

    Tweet I’ve always loved these plants – they look almost extra-terrestrial, don’t they? This year we seem to have a bumper crop – I think they like the warm weather; apparently they’re usually native…

    May 21, 2011
  • It has finally flowered

    Tweet I put this Californian Poppy in three years ago. I’ve been waiting for it to flower ever since. Well finally it has. I think it was worth the wait – it reminds me…

    May 1, 2011