by Around Dulwich | Mar 29, 2024 | Events, Featured Business, Features, Home and Garden, News, People, SE Magazines
Spring Containers for Early Colour Although there may still be frosts and cold snaps to come, on a sunny clear day, it does feel like spring is on its way. If you didn’t get round to planting spring bulbs, or you’re waiting patiently for your daffodils to pop...
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 | 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...