Category Archives: Garden Flowers

2Garden Flowers: The exquisitely scented lily of the valley…

I hope you had a lovely weekend.  We went to a progressive dinner party in our road on Saturday and had a really fun evening. We all met up together for drinks first, then went to one house for our … Continue reading

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0Auricula Open Day this Saturday at Woottens of Wenhaston

I adore Auriculas…. What I love about these garden plants is their extremely cute blooms.  Some of them are almost a caricature of how I used to draw flowers as a child…seven or eight rounded petals and a circle in the … Continue reading

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1Garden Flowers: The dainty Snake’s Head Fritillary…

I hope you had a lovely weekend… This month’s Garden Flowers post, which I write with garden designer Lisa Cox, features the snake’s head fritillary. Originally a native wild flower, it’s now been domesticated for garden use as it’s so beautiful. … Continue reading

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1Garden Flowers: Muscari…the Grape Hyacinth

This month’s Garden Flowers post, which I write with garden designer Lisa Cox, features the popular spring bulb, the muscari. Its common name is grape hyacinth which refers to the plant’s clusters of small, bell-shaped flowers, which look like bunches of … Continue reading

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1Garden Flowers: Bright yellow flowers on bare stems…the Winter Jasmine

This month’s Garden Flowers post, which I write with garden designer Lisa Cox, features the winter jasmine, which is also known as Jasminum nudiflorum. It’s a hardy deciduous shrub with long arching branches that bear bright yellow flowers on bare stems in the winter, … Continue reading

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5Garden Flowers: Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’…a pretty & scented shrub

This month’s Garden Flowers post, which I write with garden designer Lisa Cox, features Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’. At this time of year when our gardens can tend to look a little bit bare, it’s wonderful to have a flowering … Continue reading

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0Garden Flowers: Salvia involucrata…a burst of pink amongst the autumn leaves

This month my Garden Flowers post, which I write with garden designer Lisa Cox, features Salvia involucrata. It’s a wonderful tall herbaceous perennial that has vibrant pink flowers which appear in the summer and continue well into the autumn. The pictures … Continue reading

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0Garden Flowers: Violas…such dainty winter blooms

This month’s Garden Flowers post, which I write with garden designer Lisa Cox, features violas. Now that autumn is well and truly here in the UK, violas are the perfect antidote to add a pop of colour to our fading gardens. … Continue reading

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2Garden Flowers: Easy to grow penstemons…

This month’s Garden Flowers post, which I write with garden designer Lisa Cox, features penstemon. This popular flowering plant grows best in full sun but is also very happy in light shade, and blooms in your garden from mid-late summer and … Continue reading

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1Cottage Garden Perennials from You Garden

Continuing the Garden Flowers theme today, this afternoon’s blog post features Cottage Garden Perennials from You Garden, an online garden centre. You may recognise their name from this blog post, as they are the company responsible for selling the rose … Continue reading

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