Monthly Archives: May 2013
Lilac in Vienna
It’s a cliché of the garden world that when you visit a garden and marvel at its beauty, the gardener says ‘Oh yes, but it’s a pity you weren’t here last week, you just missed the xyz, which was…
Chelsea Best in Show – come into the garden!
They did it! Wild cheers and a foot-stomping ovation from us as the Australian team scoops the Best in Show award at Chelsea. You’ve seen photos in the newspaper and on the television, now come into the garden with us and have…
China – The Wow Moments
Spring was breaking as Libby Cameron and her group of Ross travellers journeyed through China from Beijing to the Tang dynasty tombs and their terracotta figures in Xian, the peony festival in Luoyang, the beauty of Hangzhou and Suzhou and the…
Tulips from Amsterdam
Tulips are in florist shops all over town this week. But gardeners are only just beginning to think about where and when to plant the fat bulbs they have ordered. The flowers are months off. So where are the tulips…
Bright: 6 Great Moments
The stems of the Himalayan cherry glow like a shiny copper pipe. Beautiful – and, according to Chinese legend, lucky . It must be true. We rubbed those shiny stems in a garden in Bright and had a perfect weather,…
A taste of Orange
We need our own name for the act of going somewhere to be dazzled by glowing autumn leaves. In Japan it’s called momijikari, which roughly translates as ‘maple hunting’, and in the US it goes by the faintly fetishistic ‘leaf-peeping’. Whatever it’s…