Pots of Muscari on the windowsill brighten up the house on early spring days.
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Flower Friday: Close, Closer, Closest
Some flowers are born for a close-up.
Flower Friday – Compass Plant
A native perennial I’ve loved since the moment I heard about it is the Compass Plant – Silphium laciniatum. I think my attraction was originally to the common name and then its striking height. It grows to about eight feet high in my garden some years, and its large basal leaves are said to point […]
Flower Friday- Blue (mainly) Iris
For 49 weeks a year I think tall bearded Iris are a waste of garden space. Dandelions love to grow in impossibly tight spaces between their rhizomes. Leaves get tatty and mottled by the end of July, and are unremarkable the rest of the growing season. You’re supposed to divide the rhizomes every few years. […]
Flower Friday – Eucomis
The thing is, I can never predict when they’ll bloom!
County Gardening 