After all the excitement of seeing the Amaryllis beginning to re-bloom this year and dutifully taking pictures and making notes, I didn’t get round to the most important picture of …

House plants are one of the things that keep me going through the winter months when there’s very little I want to do outside and I bet that the most …

I’m amazed at how quickly the Amaryllis has shot up its first flower spike and how suddenly it burst open to reveal four swelling flower buds, one of which is …

It’s been around three weeks since the first post and pictures about the Amaryllis “Apple Blossom” that we have. The flower spike has been growing higher and higher as the …

Though most plants seem to be turning brown and looking sickly, the garden isn’t ready to keel over and die just yet. This Autumn has been very mild and damp, …

I don’t have a garden large enough and don’t yet grow enough to be able to regularly have large vases of cut flowers fresh from outside, the parents do and …

Last year — around this time — I bought an Amaryllis “Apple Blossom” (I know that they should really be called Hippeastrum). I wanted one after seeing one in flower at the …

The small Fatsia Japonica plant that we have is now flowering. It is about a year or so old and so this is only its second go at flowering. The …