There it is, by that log. I have to bend low for a good look. The flower’s color is far more impressive than its size. It’s a rich magenta, almost a purple-pink. Absolutely beautiful.
This flower, barely 3 inches tall and growing beside a moldering log on a riverbank, is called the fringed polygala. It resembles [...]
Cool, sophisticated and recyclable were the criteria that led the contenders at Chelsea Flower Show, which opens its doors to the Queen today. For the first time, the organisers have insisted that elements of all the main gardens must be recyclable.
The designers rose to the challenge and a bumper crop of gold medals is predicted.
Hedges [...]
Gardening is more popular than ever, with many of us spending our free time planting, weeding and mowing. Ahead of this weekend’s Spring House and Garden Show at Belfast’s King’s Hall, Chrissie Russell and Grainne McCarry asked some very keen green-fingered folk just how their gardens grow
Jill Russell (68) is married to George and lives [...]
A gentian is a decorative plant with vivid blue flowers. Gentian violet is an equally vivid dye widely used as an antiseptic, especially for the treatment of burns.
Not necessarily any more. Scientists in New Zealand have cultivated a hot pink gentian which is exciting florists in Europe, the United States and Japan, where it is [...]
Following on from the success of attending The RHS Chelsea Flower Show last year, Garden Totems will be returning this year. They will be on Stand number RM/33 from May 22nd to the 26th.
Hand-turned from solid, sustainable wood, each Garden Totem is a unique work of art designed and created by Keay-Chaplin to evolve and [...]
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