Some plants knock you over with their beauty and this is one! Stachyurus praecox is a stunning shrub from Japan, learn more about this shrub and how to grow and care for it, in my plant of the week blog!
Tag: winter flowers
Six on Saturday – 10th of March,2018
My six on Saturday this week comes from my own garden and shows a few things that are happening in there at the moment
Six on Saturday: 17.02.2018
February is disappearing rather fast now with only one more Saturday left before we hit March. The mornings are certainly much lighter and as for the evenings,it’s almost light until 6pm now. Another month and the clocks will change and spring forward, at last we will be able to do a little more in the…
Snowdrops of Hodsock Priory
A look at the stunning winter gardens at Hodsock Priory, Nottinghamshire and it’s stunning snowdrops around the garden mixed with other winter joys
Plant of the week: Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’
A look at another beautiful winter shrub, one that gives us catkins for many months as well as being a great shrub, learn how to care for as well as how to propagate it
Six on Saturday 3-02-2018
A look at six things of interest happening in my garden for this weekend
Plant of the week-Helleborus x hybridus Walberton’s Rosemary ‘Walhero’
My plant of the week this week is the beautiful hellebore, Helleborus x hybridus Walberton’s Rosemary ‘Walhero’. You will find out how it was bred, how to grow it and where to buy it
Six on Saturday 27-1-2018
Well another stormy wet week with a Wednesday so wet and windy, I was glad to be indoors. The ground around me is almost at saturation point now and needs a good few days of drying out, I dread to think of what it will be like if we get another downpour like Wednesday. Work…
Plant of the week- Sarcococca ruscifolia var. chinensis ‘Dragon Gate’
One of the most perfumed winter flowering plants makes my plant of the week this week, Sarcococcas are one the best shrubs to grow in your gardens
Six on Saturday 20/01/2018
Well another week completed and another dollar earnt! But what a odd week, total downpour on Monday, gale force winds then battered us during Wednesday night Thursday morning, scattering the empty plastic glass collection boxes up and down my street. The poorly fixed fence the landlord did in my back garden scummed to these gales, […]