It’s near impossible to think of a flower with greater presence than the sunflower. I tended a giant sunflower one summer and was once struck by the oddest notion on gazing up at it that I could bare my soul to the giant black and yellow face peering down at me. I felt as if I could count on a […]
Through the Garden Gate With a Victorian Exotic: Angel Trumpet
Close your eyes and say “Victorian garden” aloud. Is it a romantic image of rambling roses and sweet-faced pansies you see? Perhaps a potted fern or a tussie mussie brimming with violets? Now, what of pampas grass, castor beans and banana plants? Hmm… I thought not. Victorians loved the bold, the big and the dramatic in their gardens. The invention […]