Alstroemeria – The Peruvian Lilies

I met my first Alstroemerias when working for Boulter’s Nursery in Olinda in the 1960s. [...]

Violets

Walking into one of our large growing houses today I almost swooned from the intense [...]

Bluebells

There is, or used to be, a bluebell wood a short walk from my East [...]

Houseleeks

When I was a lad, some seventy-five years ago, my village, like much of the [...]

Shade Lovers from Chile

I first saw plants of Bridal Wreath, Francoa appendiculata ssp. ramosa, some fifty years ago [...]

Snowdrops (Galanthus)

Snowdrops (Galanthus) have naturalised so far and wide in the British Isles that they are [...]

Forsythia ‘Gold Clusters’ (syn Forsythia ‘Melee d’Or’)

Seventy years ago, when I was 8 years old, my father let me use a [...]

Lambley History at ‘Burnside’, Ascot