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Tag: Botany

By loujnicholls Posted on June 22, 2022

Plant Profile – Helenium

To bring back my writing mojo I’m going to look at a few inspiring plants and here’s the first.
Helenium speaks to me of summer days and its the perfect opportunity to add one to your garden

Categories: UncategorizedTags: Botany, Flowers, Garden, gardening, Helenium, Horticulture, PlantProfile, plants, Sneezeweed
By loujnicholls Posted on October 27, 2018December 1, 2018

Beloved and annoying! Salvia madrensis

A look at a plant that’s teaching me new things about Salvia’s. Propagating itself and teasing us with its flowers

Categories: UncategorizedTags: Botany, Flowers, madrensis, plant, propagating, propagation, Salvia
By loujnicholls Posted on September 27, 2017

Behind the scenes at Kew

Behind the scenes of kew’s glasshouses
Rare tropical plants saved for the future of the world and how they do it!

Categories: Garden visits, UncategorizedTags: Botany, exotic, Flowers, Kew, Nature, Orchids, plants, Tropical
By loujnicholls Posted on August 12, 2017

My Zygopetalum

A love of Orchids is all consuming, the flowers and scent from my Zygopetalum are one of the reasons why

Categories: UncategorizedTags: Botany, Flowers, Garden, gardening, Orchid, plants, scent
By loujnicholls Posted on March 30, 2017March 30, 2017

Chelsea Flower Show

Chelsea flower show, show gardens are designers dreams, style and fantasy, plants and pimms!
I revisit my Chelsea experiences, horticulture at its finest!

Categories: UncategorizedTags: Botany, Charity, Chelsea, Chelsea Flower Show, colour, designer, Flowers, Garden, gardeners, gardening, Horticulture, lifestyle, Perennial, plants, Show gardens, style
By loujnicholls Posted on March 19, 2017

Alnwick Gardens

Alnwick Garden, one of the UKs most spectacular gardens of this century!

Categories: UncategorizedTags: Alnwick, Botany, designer, Flowers, Garden, gardening, hedging, plants, poison garden, style, trees, water feature
By loujnicholls Posted on January 31, 2017

Epicormic growth or canker?

Whats wrong with your Apple tree? A quick guide to Canker identification

Categories: UncategorizedTags: Apple, Botany, canker, Fruit, fruit trees, Garden, gardeners, gardening, Horticulture, Pest & Disease, pruning, Pruning apples, pruning techniques, trees, winter, Winter prune
By loujnicholls Posted on January 14, 2017

The Winter Garden – part 2

To any of you who havent stumbled on me before let me take a moment to say Hi & welcome! I asked Twitter what they would like me to blog … Continue reading The Winter Garden – part 2

Categories: UncategorizedTags: Botanical, Botany, colour, designer, explore, Flowers, Garden, gardeners, gardening, Horticulture, National Trust, plant hunter, plants, pruning, scent, shrubs, Sissinghurst, trees, winter, Winter garden
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