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5 Tips for Shady Gardens

Eleanor Clarke GARDEN DESIGN 5 Tips for Shady Gardens Shade is a challenge we’re familiar with as Londoners, where gardens can be small and overlooked. They can often be closed…

Eleanor Clarke OUTDOOR PLANTS Masterclass: Pruning Roses They’re the quintessential English garden flower, adored by poets, lovers, garden designers and beginner gardeners. Beautiful, colourful, scented, useful (there’s one pretty much…

5 Plants for Winter Bee Food

Eleanor Clarke ENVIRONMENT 5 Plants for Winter Bee Food The UK is home to around 250 different species of bee. While some have an annual lifecyle, plenty are active in…

Erica Darleyensis (Pink)

Masses of pink, urn-shaped flowers appear from January to March among bright green evergreen foliage. This winter heather has an upright and compact habit, making it a particularly suitable container…

Lonicera Brownii Dropmore Scarlet – scarlet trumpet honeysuckle

This honeysuckle has a real wow factor, with long, trumpet-shaped, vivid scarlet flowers from July to September, followed in hot summers by small red berries. Although it is unscented (or…

Allium Ostara

Perk up your early summer style with these fabulous, architectural jewels. Bobbing beautifully throughout planting schemes with ball-like flowerheads, Allium 'Ostara' make a brazen statement with a cool defined shape…

Choisya Ternata Brica

Choisya ternata Brica, or Golden Mexican Orange Blossom, is an attractive, medium-sized, bushy, free-flowering, evergreen shrub with highly decorative, glossy, lime-yellow, ternate leaves. The clusters of lovely, sweetly scented, star-shaped,…

Red Cyclamen

Flowering through winter, cyclamen provide a delightful colour boost to any garden from late winter to early spring injecting life when gardens tend to be subdued. Preferring partial (or even…

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