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.

Hazelnuts

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,...

Look at me!

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.