John Grimshaw's Garden Diary

Massonia echinata For the past few days I've been struck by a sweet fragrance as I enter the greenhouse, but could not immediately id...

Cutting-back in progress With the snow gone and the air temperature positive - though with the soil still frozen - it is essential that w...

Ranunculus fluitans in the River Churn Although the air temperature is now, at midday on a lovely, sunny day, all of 3 o C, which is the...

Daphniphyllum macropodum Trochodendron aralioides Last night was the coldest of the winter, so far, with the thermometer reading -10...

A Cotswold scene - charming, but biologically depauperate. We take the excellent news magazine The Week , which summarizes interesting ne...

This is Begonia wollastonii (syn. B. keniensis ), a species with quite a wide range in the montane forests of East Africa, growing in damp...

Galanthus 'George Elwes' The list of Colesbourne snowdrops available in 2011 was posted on the sales page of our website   last ...