Profile of Plants Growing in our Aberdeen and Cheshire Gardens. Simply a way to share my lifelong gardening experience with you. A to Z of Our Plants. Camellia x Williamsii Spring Festival. The Camellia x Williamsii Spring Festival brightened up this area of the back garden for a few weeks in April. Picture a Magnolia in your head, I reckon most of us would see Magnolia x Soulangeana. Subscribe to Blog via Email.

Stumbling around in the green world. Someone from the Breadfruit Institute. Kindly left a comment below, suggesting that this tree might possibly be a bread. Sp until the species name is verified. Even though typically the male flower appears first.

Is thinking she tries to do too many things at once. I need paragraphs WordPress, PARAGRAPHS! Ugh This is very frustrating. These lovely grape hyacinths make me feel better.

Landscape Design and Garden Blog. Here is a project that kept me busy this summer and fall. This was the scene that greeted me as I walked up to meet my latest clients at a large sweeping property near lake Travis. Most of the plantings were as old as the house and were not doing anything to visually lift the property. The random assortment of pruned boxwoods. Especially this front horseshoe area.

A garden diary capturing the joys of gardening in coastal Virginia. Tuesday, February 28, 2017. This first camellia is a tall slender variety and is stunning this year. The other is a late winter bloomer. The hail storm knocked off the freeze burned flowers. Finally the edgeworthia shrub is getting some height to it. this one is in full bloom.

Love how this pretty little sedum planter turned out. This is where the sedum came from. We had fun planting this back in April. The plants quickly filled out the box. In late July, the creeping thyme bloomed! Now, in mid-October, the thyme has almost covered up the Coke box.

Because gardening is too important to be taken seriously. If you prefer to be all science about it. There are three stings o.