Linda meets a Garden Clinic member whose garden is as vivacious as her personality, and is full of exciting treasures and rewarding endeavours!There is nothing more satisfying than to bump into a member of the Garden Clinic Club and chat for hours about plants, flowers - and everything! When I met Cynthia we were just getting to...
Rhubarb
Rhubarb is back in fashion - it is so easy to grow and when the rhubarb is fresh from the garden, rhubarb crumble always tastes better! Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable that produces freely when established in your garden. You can grow it in a sunny spot, or in semi-shade. Grow it in a separate bed from yo...
Behind the complex beauty of the unusual flowers of Aristolochia elegans (better known as the Dutchman's pipe) lies a menace to one of Australia's prettiest butterflies, the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly.
I photographed these extraordinary blooms on tour in Scandinavia, in the glasshouses of the Oslo Botanic Garden, in Sweden. Th...
I love conifers, always have, not only because of their permanency in the landscape, their diversity of colours and shapes but also, when chosen carefully, their hardiness.
Unfortunately many gardeners aren't familiar with the charms of the conifer family. They are a complex group of plants with difficult nomenclature an...
There are fashions in flowers as there are in most things. I was thinking about the fashion highs and lows of the dahlia last weekend as I was digging tubers from one of our cutting garden beds. One entire plot is now devoted to dahlias, because there is simply no better cut flower, and we get flowers for such a long time.
I wa...
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