This is late May, the shadiest darkest corner of my garden which could be just a tip! Ferns, hellebores, foxgloves and brunnera love damp shady spots. In the urn are the fading leaves of Erythronium ‘Pagoda’.

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...

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...

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...

The truly glorious pelargonium polytunnel yesterday at one of my favourite plant nurseries, Wootten’s Plants of Wenhaston. Here is Julie with a pot of Pelargonium ‘Pink Capricorn’ ready for their display at the Suffolk County Show this week.Do visit www.woottens.co.uk...