Victoria's backyard

A subtropical suburban oasis in Wandsworth, south-west London designed to defy the depredations of global warming, garden pests and kids without recourse to carbon emissions, chemicals or cranial damage.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Why do we love to hate conifers?

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What is it about conifers? Is it just that everyone overdid them back in the Seventies, and now we're all sick of the sight of the thing...

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Bondage for roses

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I was reading an article about climbers in the RHS journal, The Garden, the other day, that described the various techniques used by plants ...

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Cloak(room) and bagger stories

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I spent the final afternoon of the Chelsea flower show helping out in the cloakroom, which was being run by volunteers from the National Cou...

Saturday, May 24, 2008

The mystery of the uprooted grevillea

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I've just been replanting my front garden (I find front gardens so much more challenging than back gardens, but that's a subject for...

Friday, May 23, 2008

Love at first begonia

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Love at first sight can turn a girl's head. Your heart beats faster, you have eyes only for the object of your desire and any sensible t...

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

In the pinks

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One of the flowers that caught my eye (and nose) at Chelsea were the pinks, or dianthus, on the Whetman Pinks stand. I used to grow pinks in...

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