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. It is down to earth and a great part of the British countryside. Cardamine pratensis is commonly known as the cuckoo flower, presumably because it flowers at the same time as the cuckoo appears (we noticed both on the same day). The cuckoo flower is a member

mind by lunchtime on Monday.  Find out if James's predictions were correct by viewing the Chelsea Flower Show 2008 medal results.

Today begins the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, which is held in the grounds of one of the very finest royal palaces, resonant with history. It is also the biggest flower show in the world. I know this because I've read the Royal Horticultural

It's RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week: the biggest and most famous show in the world (although Gardeners' World Live at the NEC from 16-20 June 2010 runs pretty close of course!).The tickets sold out very early but for those of you lucky enough

Just in case you have been in a surgically induced coma or trekking up hidden valleys amongst deep jungle, I must remind you that this is Chelsea Flower Show week. Garden designers, nurserymen and builders have been beavering away in the grounds

Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is running this week and I have been lucky enough to get a quick preview prior to judging today (Monday).If you are short of time or a little confused by the whole thing (it is after all the largest flower show

-bottomed voluptuousness, but as the summer wears on and autumn looms this look fades away and everything is so much more relaxed. Most plants that flower at this time of year have more of a 'what-the-hell' attitude. Imagine that your garden was a pair of ever changing

it is unlucky in that its flowering coincides with the flowering of daffodils and by that time I have had enough of yellow.I adore tulips. The photograph above, by the way, is of a species of tulip called tarda and is there, not because it is ugly but because

to keep wearing the same size trousers. I could fly off somewhere hot, but sadly that's not terribly practical. Instead, my cheap and easy solution is to talk about summer flowers, with the only proviso being that they can be any colour at all except white

When we think of irises our minds tend to wander towards May and great swathes of big, brassy flowers over sharp-sided, sword-shaped leaves. Either that or drifts of yellow flag iris on the sides of pools and streams. We tend to ignore February. Big