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Plant & Flower Challenges

A Thistle Epistle

Dear Eeyore I know how fond you are of thistles, so I thought of you when I came across these beauties in a garden in Wiltshire recently. My taste in […]

Rare Lobelia

Normally I think of Lobelia hanging in baskets and cascading over window boxes, but this one has a more exciting life; you can see it below perched on the cliff […]

Osteospermum at Claridges

A purple Osteospermum.  Thees are often known as African Daisies and even though I’m just back from Africa, this beauty was in a window box outside Claridges Hotel in London. […]

Trailing Begonias in Manchester

These beautiful begonias adorn the pavements in that Castlefield area of Manchester, close to the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI). . Posted as part of the Festival of Flowers and […]

Lilies

These beautiful flowers are in the garden of a country house hotel in southern England. Posted as part of Friday Flower Festival.

Roses in Lewes

The East Sussex county town of Lewes has the most beautiful of settings, in a bowl surrounded by chalk hills.  The residents enhance its beauty further by keeping the town […]

Flowers on Park Lane

These flowers attracted me from behind the iron fence of a small garden on Park Lane in London. . Part of Friday Flower Festival.