Bidens ‘Golden Eye’ These lovely ivory-and-yellow Bidens 'Golden Eye' make lovely hanging basket plants.
Dicentra Dicentra, or bleeding heart, is stunning up close and good in groups. I love the dicentra on my balcony, but I'll love it even more when it's en masse in the woodlandish bit at the back of my new garden. The...
Fleurs et lumière There is something incredible about the combination of the primrose-coloured spring sunshine and the papery petals of hellebores and daffodils. Look at the light coming through these flowers in a nearby garden....
Daffodil spectacular It's nearly daffodil time! Oh, how I struggle with these flowers. En masse and indoors, it's difficult to go wrong with them. But quite often they look dreadful in gardens, planted too thinly and out of context...
Gagea fibrosa This beautiful star-flowered bulb grows wild in Israel, North Africa and parts of the Mediterranean. It flowers in February and March in its native climate, and like many bulbs is used to being baked hard in th...
Cheery wallflowers Let's face it: this weather is just dreadful. We're all miserable and fully confirmed in our belief that January probably should have been banned a long time ago. But there is just one thing that's cheering me ...
Galanthus nivalis ‘Viridapice’ Isn't this a sweet snowdrop? It looks as though it dipped its outer petals into the green dye it was using for the little moustache it sports on the inner cone. It also has lovely tall stems, making it beautifu...
Collected: Our pick of rare plants Think you know your foxgloves? See our pick of rare varieties of well-known plants.
