My Favourite Poppy

This poppy looks so fragile. As if it will only last for a few minutes. May I introduce you to my favourite poppy: Papaver nudicaule “Champagne Bubbles”, paper-thin petals, very posh wrinkles as well as unshaved legs!

Bye bye Forget-me-nots

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...

An Orange Beard

“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.

It looks like …

umbellifer, hemlock flowershemlock leaves So that is how it looks like. Hemlock photos taken in the Physics Garden Chelsea.

Jewel-like

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...