CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Everyone looks forward to finding the first primroses, violets and bluebells blooming in spring, but the flowering of dog’s mercury  Mercu...

 Almost as soon as the snow melted rosettes of marbled, spoon-shaped leaves of lesser celandine   Ficaria verna have unfurled and lie flat ...

Few of our native wild flowers have such beautiful fruits, but such an unpleasant name, as stinking iris Iris foetidissima . I grew some pl...

We recently found this large patch of Solomon's Seal Polygonatum multiflorum growing amongst bluebells in the wild flower meadows near...

Wall pennywort Umbilicus rupestris is one of those plants that would be much less common if humans hadn't built the perfect habitat ...