Tall order
Evergreen Clematis armandii spends much of its year unseen in the vast Osmanthus armatus hedge through which it grows.
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Volunteer force
A springtime daily return drive on the highway and byways between Beechworth and Wangaratta yields a fine prospect.
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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.
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Violet reign
The dowager duchess (of Grantham) would be pleased. Very pleased. This season her namesake reigns right across the garden.
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Deer bloom
American etymologist Douglas Harper says the word ‘hellebore’ is of uncertain origin. ‘Perhaps literally ‘plant eaten by fawns’.
Read moreGood sport
Camellia do well in our hillside patch with its ancient mix of earth – what Beechworth vignerons call greywacke, sandstone, mudstone and…
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Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Nivalis’ lights a grey lockdown day. Thanks be to gardening…
Read moreWell-red
1. Berberis ‘Firecracker’ (our name for it as it’s unidentified). 2. Parthenocissus tricuspidata, Pyrus ussuriensis and Prunus mume. 3. Cyrilla racemiflora, Salvia…
Read moreMorning pluck
What better destiny for an old variety of Normandy apple than tarte tartin on Easter Day? Court Pendu Plat, one of the…
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Intense Hortense – Hydrangea macrophylla – fronts Hosta ‘Hadspen blue’ on a stormy Three Mile summer’s night. This gift from a friend…
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