Wisteria seedpods replacing the ubiquitous golden and red leaves of autumn. Gorgeous, aren't they? This post has been a while in...

Fading leaves of Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple' I wish I was a bear.  Not the cuddly fluffy kind but the sort that slopes of...

No wonder British gardeners are obsessed with the weather! This time last year there was snow on the ground, yet this past week has been dry...

Stunning, isn't it!  I can say that without boasting as these plants aren't mine.  I'm blatantly taking advantage of Garden...

Surreal: so still that the droplets of thawed frost just hung there - not one of these fell! The icy fingers of Jack Frost have not ...

We've had some really blustery and cold days this week, yesterday being one of them. I did wonder whether it was just too windy to be ab...

I don't want to jinx future Thursdays but I'm tempted to say that we've been very lucky with having dry weather on the day I go ...

There's so much autumn colour around this week but still, on my way to the library, my eye was drawn to the intense red of the Acer j...

~ Malus x robusta 'Red Sentinel' in the Which? trial gardens ~ Thursday's glorious weather coincided with my day at colle...

Snowdrops at Cambridge Botanical Gardens. I really wanted to be outside today, playing with a recent purchase of a new cloche, but it...

My favourite image from last Friday's course:  The Castor Oil plant (Ricinis communis). (Not to be confused with Fatsia Japonica, the...