John Grimshaw's Garden Diary

Rosa sericea JMG N3 flowering in my parents' garden: grown from seed collected in Nepal in 1988. As usual I took the week of the C...

National Schools Observatory: Dark Matter - a clever and beautifully planted evocation  of the mysteries of physics. Although re...

The striking large, brightly coloured flowers  of Narcissus nobilis are really something special, (With Primula ''Guinevere'...

A morning of lashing rain seems like a good opportunity to review a magnificent book, The Irish Garden , with text by Jane Powers and pho...

Cypripedium formosanum , fortunately brought in before the sharp frosts this week. Pleione speciosa , the original cultivated clone  ...

'Beersheba' on Thursday - just a hint of creaminess remains in the trumpet. One of my annual pleasures is to have a vase of Narc...

Rhododendron calophytum R. mucronulatum R. fulvum 'Windlesham White' R. piercei R. pocophorum var. hemidartum...