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Spring Time I am going to be typically British here and talk about the weather, but in a good way! I, like most of us, enjoy the seasons that our island’s position throws our way. When it is nearing the end of summer, I look forward to the fallen

I have daffodils, tulips and other spring bulbs which are planted in containers and have now finished flowering.  The foliage is still green especially on the daffs.  I would now like to empty the pots for veg planting and some summer bedding plants

the icy blast that has destroyed the top of some of the burgundy hyacinths is still blowing.  I do so want to go out with my camera and say truthfully "Ah, a lovely mild spring day, now to photograph all my spring sweethearts".

After all the winds and rain that swept through earlier in the week (and which washed away poor Pippa's iris) a calm has descended on this part of the world.Wandering around this morning I've noticed that spring has been inching in under cover

I love daffodils. To get the best from these wonderful flowers, I plant up a dozen plastic aquatic baskets with spring bulbs in autumn, choosing varieties that flower at different times. When spring arrives, I pop one basket after another

i have planted spring flower bulbs in the autumn last year but forgot what they are called, can i have some help please   Link doesn't work  there we go Anemone really?, i thought thats what it was but i think anemones grow to a certain height

spring bulbs. I've no idea where they're all going to go.Last year's spring bulb display went a bit wrong. In March my garden was a muddy building site and the daffodils I grew in pots looked a bit out of place. When I planted my containers of alliums

Spring is here, although nobody seems to have told the weather department yet. This week's biting easterly wind felt more like standing at a Siberian bus stop than April in an English country garden.However, the evidence of spring is out

This week is the Malvern Spring Show and the first big Royal Horticultural Society flower show of the year. This is always a fun show not least because the setting is so remarkably beautiful. As you approach the show ground from the pretty town

A Dutchman at heart, I love to create a mini-Keukenhof         each spring in my garden. This year, I pulled out all the stops to dazzle neighbours, friends, colleagues, and strangers with a magical display of thousands of spring flowering bulbs