Inverary, Tarrawingee A weekend drawer rummage turned up small black-and-white proof photographs of my Scots-born gardener-grandmother and the garden she made. Read more Posted on August 30, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Winter
Violet reign The dowager duchess (of Grantham) would be pleased. Very pleased. This season her namesake reigns right across the garden. Read more Posted on August 28, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Winter
Deer bloom American etymologist Douglas Harper says the word ‘hellebore’ is of uncertain origin. ‘Perhaps literally ‘plant eaten by fawns’. Read more Posted on August 21, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Winter
Good sport Camellia do well in our hillside patch with its ancient mix of earth – what Beechworth vignerons call greywacke, mudstone and shale. Read more Posted on August 8, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Winter
Winter blue Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Nivalis’ lights a grey lockdown day. Thanks be to gardening… Read more Posted on August 7, 2021 by jamie kronborg in Winter