Viburnum opulus
Whilst wandering around the garden looking for flowers to decorate the house last Christmas Criss [...]
Oct
The Crown of Thorns
A few years before the covid pandemic the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Philip Freier, [...]
Oct
A Distinguished Visitor
Last Sunday, the 8th of September, I had a visit from a horticultural national living [...]
Sep
Narcissus ‘Beryl’
There are daffodils and there are daffodils. Some are so superior to the run-of-the-mill sorts [...]
Aug
Alstroemeria – The Peruvian Lilies
I met my first Alstroemerias when working for Boulter’s Nursery in Olinda in the 1960s. [...]
Aug
Violets
Walking into one of our large growing houses today I almost swooned from the intense [...]
Aug
Shade Lovers from Chile
I first saw plants of Bridal Wreath, Francoa appendiculata ssp. ramosa, some fifty years ago [...]
Jul
Snowdrops (Galanthus)
Snowdrops (Galanthus) have naturalised so far and wide in the British Isles that they are [...]
Jul
Forsythia ‘Gold Clusters’ (syn Forsythia ‘Melee d’Or’)
Seventy years ago, when I was 8 years old, my father let me use a [...]
Jul