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but with colour in the base. Mine are in semi shade with acid soil and have just finished blooming rotten weather or not. Frank. I'd like a white one like that, which may be Azalea 'Snow White', an evergreen Japanese type. Here are a couple I have.  The red one

version survived the winter and that's here in central Belgium where we don't get the blanket of snow you would have in Switzerland.   I find I prefer the whtes, pinks and mauves of the biennial foxglove and they self seed readily and come back so I won

and look lovely billowing in the wind, they all seem to have survived the hard winter although did loose a phormium but think that was more due to snow.  I do have to stake things quite early on to stop the wind damage.  Happy gardening!

Hi - I have got several plants that traditionally prefer poorer soil which are growing in pots, e.g. scabious, lavender, sedum, snow in summer, fleabane etc.  Just wondering if these should ever be fed.  I know that planted in the garden the advice

daffodils and tulips, it's a case of looking around in the garden centres, which will have their spring bulbs in in the next ten days. Thank you Alina - i had some violas last winter and considering they are so delicate they endured frost snow and strong

they are English lavenders. French lavenders are not fully hardy. That's what I'd heard. I planted one a couple of years ago and it has come through two winters buried under two feet of snow. It's now blooming its head off yet again. Not sure how or why, but I

cold frame about five weeks ago, they are about 6 in tall already so will move them to the allotment over this weekend. Last year planted direct into the ground about November and the snow we had (midlands)  was not a problem.  Only planted in the cold

love "gardening" with my husband & myself. We're currently clearing the very bottom of our garden, (Just suspended work because of the snow !!) & they love mucking in with us.  This is my Grandson,(Grandchild #4) Hello Mag, What lovely pictures! Your

glass I reckoned I could have bought a new one with the money I put into new panes. I now have replaced the glass with polycarbonate that we bought of ebay and Im delighted with it. The snow falls off it or unlike glass if it does get heavy the panes

dozen Snow Bunting white crocuses in a smallish terracotta urn - planting them in layers - the flowers only lasted a couple of weeks, but when they were out, in the early spring when there was nothing much else about, they were an absolute picture. Pink