This is a really hardy shrub, which will grow almost anywhere in any type of soil, but people either love or loathe it! I really like it during the winter and spring months when the contorted/twisted branches are seen at … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2014
If any body out there gets the Sunday Post, you may well have come across an article about my new online business sending out plants by mail order (Sunday 19th January – Travel & Homes supplement). As this winter has been … Continue reading
This has been one of the mildest winters we’ve experienced here in Glenalmond in the past 10 years – I realise it’s only part way through, but we’ve usually been snowed in numerous times and had at least 2 – … Continue reading
I’ve just read an article in the RHS magazine ‘The Garden’ January 2014, whereby they comment upon a survey of 32 commonly grown summer-flowering plants (researched at University of Sussex) which have a one-hundredfold variation in attractiveness to their pollinators! … Continue reading