Apricot Time
An apricot is not an apricot is not an apricot! But a good apricot is heaven! Delicate, subtle, quiet, and understated, to think of dying without having tasted a good apricot! But oh, what grief! to know your good apricot you have to have tasted disappointing...
In Norfolk
Here I am visiting a wholesale nursery in Norfolk where they unusually grow plants in fields, and also on a very large scale beneath the huge East Anglian skies. On a wonderful summers day, there were fields of geraniums, iris, astilbe, salvias, hemerocallis, stachys...
Fabulous roses
“I like my roses to flower into the Autumn, smell fabulous… definitely not red – rather apricots and soft pinks…” So uttered a client 18 years ago when designing his rose parterre garden. Some of these original plants now need replacing, so today I...
Bearded Iris
Here is a wonderful display of bearded iris at Woottens Plants. A true harbinger of early summer and so glamorous too! Here is Iris ‘Buto’ with the yellow standards of Iris ‘Rajah’ in the background. The flowers are total showstoppers, but not for long so we tend to...