spring

Spring garden: what’s looking good right now

I took over this garden by sea, last year. So whilst I'm currently working on a creating a new garden, I'm discovering what the existing spring garden planting has to offer. This was clearly set up as a 'low maintenance' garden, so there was little of obvious interest already here - on the face of it just a few small leaved shrubs, clipped within an inch of their lives and … [Read more...] about Spring garden: what’s looking good right now

Currant obsession: Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum

By Martin

Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum Last year I moved back to the UK after spending over ten years in Australia, in the sub-tropical climate of Sydney. So, I'm currently enjoying my first Northern Hemisphere spring in all that time and my first spring ever living in Scotland. I've been delighting in the wonderful the variety of cool climate spring flowering plants here … [Read more...] about Currant obsession: Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum

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