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Cuttings from the Flower Garden – Peony

Thu 22 / Jun / 2017
Added in Sophie Leathart’s Column Cuttings from the flower Garden – Peony   Flower Festival at All Saints’ Church, Biddenden​ Coral-coloured festival peonies   ‘Have you ever seen anything like that?’ asked my mother. She was showing me the enormous and beautiful, coral-coloured peonies that had been used in the flower…
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Cuttings from the Flower Garden – Iris

Wed 17 / May / 2017
Added in Sophie Leathart’s Column Cuttings from the flower Garden – Iris   My mother has just given me a piece of her Iris unguicularis (stylosa) as it used to be called. I can remember picking the tightly furled buds in winter as a child and bringing them inside. I…
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Cuttings from the Flower Garden – Violets

Fri 07 / Apr / 2017
Updated on 08.04.2017 | Added in Sophie Leathart’s Column Cuttings from the flower Garden – Violets   Whilst flicking through my childhood scrapbook of pressed flowers, I came across a bunch of violets still held together by a thin piece of raffia and written underneath it, in my childish hand…
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Cuttings from the Flower Garden February 2017

Mon 06 / Feb / 2017
Posted on 06.02.2017 | Updated on 28.03.2017 | Added in Sophie Leathart’s Column Cuttings from the flower Garden Amongst the debris of last summer’s verdant extravaganza sits the Christmas rose, Helleborus niger. It has been happily holding its head up for the last few months, and even when the temperatures…
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