Noel's Garden Blog

Spotted orchids en masse, I wish I understood how and why they spread Following on from my last post about weeding the garden, sp...

A day spent in the garden – weeding. Having been away for 2 weeks there is a lot to do at this time of year. This is the crucial pe...

Balsamorhiza sagittata and an Eriophorum sp. on Rowena Bluffs, OR.  Spending two weeks in the USA. Mostly in the Pacific North ...

Interesting being at the Lurie Garden in Chicago after such a viciously cold winter and seeing it all coming back to life...

Just popped into Durslade Farm, just outside Bruton in Somerset, home of the new Hauser + Wirth gallery. The Guardian are talking about i...

Tall herb flora in Kyrgyzstan on a wet scree slope. Aconitum leuostomum mostly, to 2m tall. I just had the following letter from ...

The last few years has seen discussion of a rather worrying trend in declining numbers of monarch butterflies. One fairly obvious r...