Giardino in Umbria

Spring has arrived with a rush - and a couple of weeks early. The countryside is a mass of Yellow wild flowers and the garden too.     ...

  Continual rain and wind but warm ... this has brought out the little species Crocus and a great many other flowers besides.   The Hel...

Mild wet, foggy weather has kept the garden green and lush. Bright sparks of colour are most welcome on gloomy days: winter flowering Jasmi...

 December has been chilly with thick frost and fog in the mornings. But somehow the China roses have taken this as their signal to bloom a...

December and a few days of chilly but bright sunny weather gets me out into the garden busy planting those shrubs and bulbs that really ou...

 There is an autumn feel to the air and the Sedums are out in splendour. I have decided that these tough plants deserve more representatio...

  The last month has flown by - here unusually wet and cool with many thunderstorms. Whilst some plants have enjoyed the extra water the w...

The China roses continue to bloom - some now, others earlier, some already on a second flush. Cecil Brunner really comes into its own no...

Wild cistus   Cistus is a wild flower that grows on the scrubby rocks or 'garigue' along the roadside here. In the garden cistu...

I went with the Giardino Romano yesterday to visit the garden of the late and well respected gardener Joan Tesei. The weather was pretty g...

This rampant rambler blooms for a short time but what other plant can give a display like this? The rose has climbed up over the roof to t...

I had not appreciated how varied Irises can be, not just in terms of colour and petal form, but also growth habit and flowering time. This...