Helen and I have been potting up bare-root trees today. Hundreds of the buggers! Or at least Helen has, while I’ve just been carting them away and tying them into position on swags. For anyone that doesn’t know, a ‘bare-root’... [more]

This lovely sky blue flower is a herbaceous clematis, while never popular there is a growing interest in them as ‘functional’ plants, that is to say a plant to suit a particular purpose as opposed to being grown for it... [more]

The trouble with Hostas is their tendency, after a few dozen varieties, to all look the same. Now I’m sure there are differences in eventual size, leaf shape, length of scape, flower colour, and so on. But to the average... [more]

This little fellow was thinking ‘If I don’t look at him he won’t see me’, this is a greater spotted woodpecker and he (or she) had flown into the glasshouse yesterday and was considerable less than happy. Last week it... [more]

It is nice to see young trees. The beech trees in today’s image are at the entrance to Barningham Park, the home of the Milbank family. It is obvious from the age of the trees they were planted for posterity... [more]