Plants in Season

Thousands of poinsettias will have been bought for Christmas. With care, they can stay as colourful additions to a room until Easter. They have been developed from a wild species, […]

You may think that your garden can be dull in the winter months, but as Anna’s pictures show, there is plenty of colour around. All of these images were taken […]

Many bulbs come from countries with hot, dry summers so they either flower in spring as winter snow melts or in autumn when rain starts them back into growth. Several […]

With the slightly cooler temperatures some, but not all Paeonia have decided to slow down their progress towards flowering. These two images show the delightful change in colour over time […]

We seem to be having a bit of a purple day here at The Caley and it is not just because of my own particular bias against yellow flowers! These […]

As we move into June there will be more images of Paeonia in our gardens.  Most of the blooms this week originally came from Binny Plants but one of them […]

When you think of Paeonia (Peonies) you probably expect a brightly coloured, big, blousy flower But there are a less common species which are perhaps a little less blousy. Sometimes […]

It is hard not to like Paeonia (Peony) and whilst these are usually considered to be summer flowering there are some varieties that are in flower now.  Over the next […]

Caley member Colin has sent in some photos of the plants looking good in his garden at the moment.  Personally, I have very few yellow flowers in my own garden […]

We have just for a few more Auriculas to share this week.  However this is now the time those of us who grow Auriculas will soon be removing offsets to […]