A number of years ago RHS Chelsea Flower Show was filled with a new flower, Lysimachia atropurpurea 'Beaujolais'. Grown among grasses, the foliage dissolves with snaking blackcurrant purple and pink spires rising from the froth. Everyone was talking about it and I was hooked, ordering seeds from Chiltern Seeds to sow that spring. In our| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
I used to have a mild apathy toward Brussels sprouts, boiled and soggy, I can't say I'd've rushed out to grow them... until I sliced and fried them. Fried sliced or roasted whole Brussels sprouts take on a whole new flavour explosion to the point I put them near the top of my favourite vegetables| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
Snowdrops are one of my favourite flowers in the garden, the regular Galanthus nivalis is about as perfect a plant as can exist. With a beautiful white flower with green markings that, unusually, hangs upside down on a fine stem, coupled with narrow pale green leaves. Regular snowdrops are inexpensive so you can buy quite| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
