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May 20, 2010 | Victorianarama at Chelsea Cattleya Orchid and 3 Hummingbirds. 1871 oil on panel MJ Heade. c National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Victorian influences will converge at the Chelsea Flower Show next week. The Royal Horticultural Society was given its charter by Prince Albert in 1861. The forerunner of Chelsea, the Great Spring Show, was held that [...]  May 15, 2010 | Tulip embarrassment strikes again Oh no what has happened here? The tulip called Helmar is very, very yellow but wide slashes of raspberry ripple tone it down. Planted with maroon Tulipa Jan Reus, the raspberry and marroon sing together. I visited this customer yesterday and instead of Jan Reus, the wholesaler has given us the black tulip, Queen [...] May 15, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY Lovely ploughed field in Suffolk. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d301′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); May 12, 2010 | Monthly Black List Paeonia delaveyi Paeonia delaveyi makes it into May’s list for its tempestuous dark foliage. For this month, just right now in the black or darkest maroon leaf palette there are some cool perennials. Heuchera obsidian is, I think, the darkest of this genus. Grow it with Dicentra spectabilis ‘Alba’ behind it) Anthrisus sylvestris ‘Ravenswing’ [...] May 11, 2010 | Plantaholic Post Lovely peony with joke name Paeonia mlokosewitchii transcendental in Sunday’s rain. Less yellow than usual. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d280′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); May 10, 2010 | So this is it - off to see the Bishop in Kent Loved the Bish who presided over a long confirmation service in a very plain Edwardian Church. We are deep in Kent. A bit of a long one before the promised cuppa and cake back at my old school. Lady in front, dressed to kill in fabulous pink coat with nails and specs matching, was studying [...] May 10, 2010 | Trilliums run riot in nut grove Taking over along with white bluebulls, regal fern and our ladies bed straw. Superb ground cover at Sissinghurst Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d270′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); May 8, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY a detail of Fulani cloth – someone told me it was a bathmat for a tribal elder but that might be pure wishfulness. Same source, material given as woven bark. Cameroonian. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d261′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); May 6, 2010 | Plantaholic Post This is Omphalodes cappadocica ‘Cherry Ingram’. Lucky her, I would love to have this sparkling blue patch of woodland flower named after me. Seen at the RHS garden called Hyde Hall earlier this week – I had gone on a recce of rose pruning but found the woodland planting much more enticing. Like it? Click to share, [...] May 6, 2010 | Update on plug plant experiment I’ve just been for an early morning stroll in the garden with bare cold feet. Peering into my flowerbeds, its time to report on the success or not of those plug plants that I wrote about last month. I am totally in love with Tellima grandiflora, seen elsewhere as ground cover for shade, so snatched [...] |
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