by Around Dulwich | Feb 16, 2024 | Events, Featured Business, Features, Home, Home and Garden, Local News, News, People, SE Magazines
In praise of snowdrops There’s something magical about snowdrops with their dainty white heads appearing in dreary mid-winter, giving us a reason to be cheerful. The most common variety, Galanthus nivalis – roughly translated as ‘milk white flower ’...
by Around Dulwich | Jan 24, 2024 | Events, Featured Business, Features, Home and Garden, Local News, News, People, SE Magazines
Winter’s star performers Whether it’s attractive bark, shiny berries or a splash of colour, there are lots of plants to add winter interest to your garden…. Beautiful bark Betula utilis var. jacquemontii ‘Grayswood Ghost’ has brilliant white bark, which glows...
by Around Dulwich | Dec 13, 2023 | Events, Featured Business, Features, Home, Home and Garden, News, People, SE Magazines
Variegated plants to light up the garden Plants with variegated foliage, different coloured zones on leaves, can add a lightness to a garden, breaking up the green. I prefer the ones with white/creamy coloured markings to the more yellow pigments. These plants...
by Around Dulwich | Nov 15, 2023 | Features, Home, Home and Garden, People, SE Magazines
Fabulous Ferns With their elegant green, textural fronds, ferns are fantastic plants for adding a lushness to planting schemes, working particularly well in shady areas. They tend to fall into the following groups. The Dryopteris genus, or woodland...
by Around Dulwich | Oct 19, 2023 | Featured Business, Features, Home, Home and Garden, SE Magazines
If you’d like to incorporate trees into your garden, but space is tight, columnar – or fastigiate – trees that have a narrow upright habit, could be the answer. While standard trees tend to have fairly wide canopies, narrow trees can fit into corners or narrow spaces...
by Around Dulwich | Sep 16, 2023 | Events, Featured Business, Features, Home and Garden, Local News, SE Magazines
A fabulous filler plant, easy to grow, long flowering and low maintenance, geraniums are a must for every garden. There are so many to choice from, but here are a few of the best. Summer Colour One of the most popular geraniums and rightly so, Geranium...
