Andrewr's Blog archive

Garden Design With James Alexander Sinclair

Oxford Botanic Garden organise a series of lectures during the winter. Although it...

Is it a bird, is it a plane.....

.... no, it's a melianthus (I hope) So far in balmy Bracknell, our lowest overnight...

A Racing Start

It has become a tradition here at Devonia to count the number of plants in flower...

Arachnophilia

Any plant that flowers during the dank grey month of November has to be worth a place...

Confused dot com

With the mild weather earlier this month, some plants have got very confused about...

Second Wind

Several spring flowering shrubs often carry a few blooms in the autumn, especially...

Free seeds for the adventurous

My cardiocrinum giganteum flowered this year. As I never got round to cutting down...

I've Been Breaking The Law

We had a speaker at the local Horticultural Society earlier this week talking about...

Good service - fastest ever?

As some of you may know, I use 6X concentrated chicken fertiliser here at Devonia....

Not A Crocus

At this time of year, I have two little bulbs in flower that look like a crocus....

Somewhere in the dark there's you

We think of bulbs as flowering in the spring, but there are some that have adapted...

On and on and on and on

I planted clematis 'Kaiu' three years ago. It has small white bells with a pink tinge...