by Pips | May 25, 2019 | everything, plants
See you next year! They can a bit invasive. But also the blue froth of flowers just has the most lovely shade of pale blue. So, what can you do? I leave them, where they don’t smother other plants and say goodbye before they go all brown and...
by Pips | May 24, 2019 | everything, plants
“Attention Please” is it’s name. This isn’t about ginger hipsters… the orange beard belongs to an iris, which is otherwise dark purple. The buds are pitch black before they open and this gorgeous flower unfolds.
by Pips | May 14, 2019 | everything, plants
umbellifer, hemlock flowershemlock leaves So that is how it looks like. Hemlock photos taken in the Physics Garden Chelsea.
by Pips | Mar 19, 2019 | creepy crawlies, everything
Sadly, these grow up to be herbivores. Slugs to be precise. I was checking some potted plants and there they were: Glistening beautifully in the sun. I know, they will munch my dahlia seedlings quicker than one can blink when they’ve hatched. But aren’t...
by Pips | Mar 16, 2019 | everything, plants
Corylus avellana on a February morning, dripping wet with mist. For a few weeks in winter hazelnuts are wearing tassels. These are waiting until the fog has cleared and they can happily sway in the wind. There is a pair of hazels in my front garden,...
by Pips | Feb 27, 2019 | everything, plants
Growing in a pot and happy to do so it seems. This hellebore is doing very well in the terracotta pot for 2 years now. Such a beauty.
