Home

David Glenn's Garden Notes

Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 15:49

I was reading about one of the great 19th century head gardeners, James Barnes of Bicton, on the same day as I picked my first purple sprouting broccoli for the year.

Called Italian asparagus when first introduced into England in the early eighteenth century, purple, more...

Gardening with my Grandchildren

Sat, 04/18/2009 - 12:53

“There are two sorts of people in the world. Those that have eaten fresh peas straight from the garden and those that haven’t” My grandchildren looked up, puzzled, as they absentmindedly threw empty pea shells onto the midden between the rows of pea plants in the vegie, more...

Dry Climate Bulbs

Sat, 03/07/2009 - 16:55

Whilst I’ve been collecting dry climate bulbs for forty odd years it was only when Criss and I made our dry climate garden that I could see a way to use them as garden plants. Before that I’d grown these “Buried Treasures” in rows in dedicated bulb beds.

Gardening at Lambley

Wed, 02/18/2009 - 22:21

The garden at Lambley is a joint effort between my wife, artist Criss Canning, and I. The planting and the weeding, the pruning and the mowing is my responsibility whilst Criss, who paints full time and has a very busy exhibition schedule, is the chatelaine, the designer,, more...

Notes on Euphorbias

Wed, 02/18/2009 - 17:41

There are two acquisitions of Euphorbia rigida growing here at Lambley. The first was collected more than twenty years ago “….just north of Sparta” in the Pelloponese. The second more recent collection was from north east of Gulnar in the Taurus Mountains “Among stones on, more...

Notes on Iris

Wed, 02/18/2009 - 17:04

A deep violet blue form of the Algerian Iris, I. unguicularis (syn. I. stylosa), has flowered in the dry garden all winter. Iris 'Mary Barnard' flourishes in a very difficult, very dry spot at the base of an olive tree where it also competes with a nearby privet hedge. The, more...

In My Garden

Mon, 07/28/2008 - 01:00

Thirty five years ago I was working as a propagator for Boulters Nursery in the Dandenongs. At that time it was the biggest Rhododendron nursery in the country. My personal passion at that time was the alpine rhododendrons which cover high Himalayan passes as heather, more...

In My garden

Tue, 07/22/2008 - 01:00

This year the first snowdrop (Galanthus) bulbs started flowering well before we’d seen the back of June. Normally at Burnside it is well into July before they flower and are at their best during the second half of the month. A planting of some mixed Galanthus caucasicus, more...