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Vivienne Parry

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4 months

Yesterday my darling adored husband Tim Joss died in a cycling accident. He made me so very happy. He always said ‘am I alright for you’. He so was. We loved other deeply. Utterly bereft.

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4 months

Profoundly sorry to tell you that Tim Joss, CEO and founder of @AesopHealth died yesterday after a car hit his bike. He was a pioneer, a leader and deeply proud of his team, board and dance artists, using evidenced arts interventions for health problems. @nhse innovation showcase

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4 months

@ArzooAhmed I can hear his piano everywhere in my head, in every room

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2 years

An honorary doctorate today from @UCL_Global UCL made me what I am today. Thank you for this extraordinary honour.

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7 years

just been appointed to the board of UKRI. Awesome responsibility. Will do my best for science, public and U.K.

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3 years

Received an honorary doctorate from @ucl today - in the post, but that's COVID for you. So not worthy of it but without them, nothing I have achieved today would have been possible. So thank you UCL from the bottom of my heart - for everything.

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4 years

A high summer bouquet today. The sensuous black lily Night Rider, scarlet Crocosmia Lucifer, persicaria & agapanthus.

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7 months

Thrilled and deeply honoured to receive this honorary degree today. And what a fabulous bunch of healthcare scientists in waiting were graduating. Congratulations to them all.

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7 months

Congratulations to @vivienneparry OBE, who received an honorary doctorate this afternoon in recognition of her distinguished contribution to increasing the understanding of science and academic research through public engagement.

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3 years

I was recording an interview today and kept hearing banging. The interviewee apologised and said that it was his tortoise attacking the coal scuttle. Truly.

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5 years

With the wonderful @CSOSue Damed today by Prince William. Did she manage to invite him to see genomics at close hand? Of course she did!

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2 years

I’m very touched and honoured to have been made an honorary fellow of the national school of healthcare science. It’s a huge success and it’s been my great pleasure to see them achieve such respect and success.

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3 years

They’re back. Bouquets coming at you my friends. Today hellebores

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6 years

Receiving an honorary doctorate today from @StGeorgesUni . Feel deeply honoured

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3 years

Today would have been the 60th birthday of the Princess of Wales. I worked with her for 12 years. Here for her, clematis texensis Princess Diana with sweet peas. I still miss her.

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4 years

Tweeps, I’m going to do you all a bouquet a day from my garden. Today, euphorbia, hyacinth and centre stage fab dark double hellebore, with some orange erysimum

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4 years

In Frankfurt airport preparing to leave for the last time as an EU citizen. Asked for an exit stamp and nearly cried.

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4 years

@TomHourigan Duty log recorded a viewers complaint that I was ‘too loud’. Editor of Tomorrow’s World reviewed it and said ‘at least he’s got the luxury of a volume button Viv’.

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4 years

Indulge me just one more time, the blousy over the top Sarah Bernhardt peony along with peony Bowl of Beauty with its yellow shock of stamens

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3 years

It’s back. Not every day yet but here is your first bouquet of the year. Spring snowflakes, snowdrops and Arum leaf

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3 years

For Good Friday, simplicity and in memory of my dear mother in law Olivia who when she was dying asked if I could bring her primroses

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5 years

VP on the Iron Throne. Be very afraid

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1 year

I may have overdone it on the sweet pea front this year. One days haul.

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3 years

This is currently framing my front door orange rose with honeysuckle

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2 years

Can we not all march on Parliament and demand an election? Like everyone else I feel completely disenfranchised as the deckchairs are rearranged once again

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Vivienne Parry

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1 year

My best friend of 47 years died within a month of a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. She had tickets for the Vermeer exhibition as did I. Today I saw it for her. Jane Keeler much loved and missed, it was wonderful as were you.

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3 years

Morning all, a mass of different dwarf narcissi with Stinking hellebore

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3 years

First of the sweet peas with a bit of bronze fennel and some dinky pink alliums. Prepare for a peony assault

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3 years

My husband got his vaccine yesterday. A huge thank you to all the scientists, healthcare staff and volunteers who made that possible. You are so much appreciated.

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4 years

Garden having one last glorious hurrah. You are all feeling gloomy about what’s ahead. For a short spell, they’re back. Much love heading all your way. Dahlias.

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5 years

LHC. Wow and double wow

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4 years

The opulent poppy Patty’s Plum with cotinus and bronze fennel. Fennel is crack cocaine for rabbits and when I picked it I disturbed a mainlning baby bun on his way to a 10 stem a day habit.

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4 years

Signing off today as I pack my bucket and spade. My lovely stepdaughter is staying to garden guardian. Leaving you with the burnt orange if a fabulous Canna called Wyoming. Back soon.

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3 years

Wonderful day yesterday with ⁦ @welshcrucible ⁩. And just about to meet this awesome bunch again today. Lucky me. And here’s poets narcissus with Veronica gentianoides. Love the colours

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3 years

So busy today, nearly forgot you. Zingy lime, posh bluebell Scilla peruviana and nigella

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4 years

Say hello to Gertrude Jekyll, my very favourite rose. Heavenly scent, good as gold grower, gorgeous flowers. Perfect. Enjoy

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2 years

Paddington & The Queen #PlatinumJubileeconcert . Genius but it made me cry. The nation will be bereft when she goes.

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4 years

I have a thing about scented peonies. I even have a cutting patch of them so I can have armfuls in the house. Here are 2 beautiful Duchesse de Nemours and the first Jan van Leuven.

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4 months

Thrilled of the Cotswolds.. ….Craig Venter who set the future for all us who work in genomics and still setting the future at 77. Respect!

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4 years

Big blue bells of Platycodon with spires of pink summer Savory and Salvia African Skies and my favourite pink verbena Sissinghurst

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4 years

My adorable husband proposed to me by a patch of Blue Shimmer iris. Obvs had to have them in garden. Here with bistort and stachys. Feel the love.

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Vivienne Parry

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3 years

Rehearsals for G7 global vaccine confidence summit which I’m hosting tomorrow. No pressure. Meanwhile a calming bouquet

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4 years

The lavender is massing, huge purple clouds of the stuff, abuzz with bees. Here with Gertrude Jekyll.

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Vivienne Parry

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6 years

What a wonderful day. Thank you @StGeorgesUni and @deborahbowman

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

Intense scent from this velvety ensemble. Sweet pea matucana, rose Souvenir du Dr Jamain, clematis Etoile violette and a random clove scented pink, all with black elder

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4 years

Autumn is here. Masses of rose hips in the hedges, here with dahlia David Howard and Indian Summer alstroemerias

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4 years

Purple toadflax with purple sweet peas. They’d like more rain please if it’s ok with y’all.

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4 years

A star Purple Flame dahlia taking her bow, with lavender phlox and grass playing, she’s keen to emphasis, a supporting role only.

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3 years

Super dinky today. This little green petalled flower is called Hacquetia, here with forget me not in a dinky 5 cm jug

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

This is a wild flower bouquet from the wild part of the garden. Alexanders, campion, blue Alkanet and Dusky cranesbill.

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

Someone told me my bouquets get flashier the worse things get. Time then to break out the negroni shades of dinner plate dahlia Perch Hill AND Canna Extase AND Hydrangea Annabel. Courage mes braves.

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3 years

On Friday they were all buds and suddenly it’s peonies everywhere. Enjoy your week.

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1 year

View outside bedroom window this morning

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4 years

Today from the back of the border all 1.8 m high, salvia involucrata with bright pink furry flowers, purple Veronia and rockets of miscanthus

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4 years

Today the first of the yellow climbing roses with a powerfully scented honeysuckle Scentsation. And warning you all, peony tsunami coming your way

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Vivienne Parry

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3 years

Really looking forward to hosting tonight's CSO Healthcare Science Awards 2020. #HCSproblemsolvers with @CSOSue & @Angelafifty

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4 years

I braved the rain and rescued these beauties For you all. Purple Flame dahlias. Not extinguished, just smouldering.

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

All the flowers in my bouquets come from my Oxfordshire garden. For ⁦ @NicoleMatherIBM ⁩ here’s a pic

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3 years

Wore heels all day for the G7 yesterday. First time for a year. Something bold from the garden, alliums and peony

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4 years

A bouquet of veg: gigantes and runner beans flowers, Champion peas, rainbow chard, parsley & marjoram

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4 years

Amazing hot colours for a dull day. Two orange Papaver orientale Wisley Beacon and Almost Black iris. I grow them together which is a tad eccentric but joyous for a week of eye popping colour

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4 years

The first of the sweet peas. Enjoy

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4 years

Some battered helianthus, red Firebird penstemon, David Howard dahlia and the only bronze spray chrysanthemums not eaten by slugs. Garden being blown away today.

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Vivienne Parry

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3 years

Outrageous Green Wave parrot tulips with battered lilac

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3 years

Tree peonies...so decadent.

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Vivienne Parry

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2 years

I’ve spent years persuading a rose (Himalayan musk for the techies) up a walnut tree. Here it is in all its magnificence 10 metres up

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

I should have been at the ⁦ @The_RHS ⁩ Flower show today so no mad tulip spree ⁦ @BlomsBulbs ⁩ . A study in blue then minus tulips. Rather beautiful colours combining Cerinthe and Nigella.

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Vivienne Parry

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2 years

Story of Dolly on tonight. I got into a lot of trouble because I’d made a film at Roslin the week before the Observer ran the story. Why didn’t you spot her, raged my BBC editor. Because she was a cloned sheep, I mumbled. They all looked the same

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

Dit Bonjour a Monsieur Jules Elie. My absolute favourite pink peony. Rose scented, huge, luscious in every way. What better way to start the week than on a pillowy perfumed pink cloud. A vous mes amis.

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

To me any flower is beautiful, even the most humble. These are various sorts of the daisy, osteospermum and they look like an old master. Enjoy.

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4 years

Dreamy baby blue scabious, cream sweet pea and Alchemilla especially for my step daughter Hannah who was to have married Alex today but their wedding got cancelled.

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3 years

What a complete treat and honour it was to be part of the 10th birthday celebrations of the National School of Healthcare Science today with @CSOSue , @HeadNSHCS and a selection of fab alumni. It’s been a fabulous success story. Be very proud everyone

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

Thrilled that Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier have got the Nobel Prize for chemistry. I’ve interviewed them both over the years. Brilliant, impressive, thoughtful women who have had a profound impact on life sciences. Congratulations to both

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

How gorgeous are these. Lathyrus tingitanus, the Tangier Pea which grows right up to the roof.

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Vivienne Parry

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3 years

Very simple. Bluebells and cow parsley

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3 years

I love this. Navy hyacinth, bright Yokohama tulip, with the bigger World Friendship one and euphorbia.

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4 years

A very pretty Alstroemeria partnered with a pink climbing rose to start your week.

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4 years

For those of you who love dinky, here are some of the cyclamen scattered through my grass along with the origanum Kent Beauty

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Vivienne Parry

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3 years

Not more tulips? Fabulous trio here, blackcurrant Havran, magenta Dolls Minuet and purple Ronaldo. And no, don’t nip out to the florist for these each day.

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3 years

Of all the plants in my garden, this wild peony ....called Molly the Witch ...is the one I love most. Lemon yellow buds opening palest yellow tissue paper petals with golden stamens. Enjoy.

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Vivienne Parry

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3 years

Magnificent. I officially now share being a Pointless Answer on Pointless with Sir Paul Nurse of @thecrick . Sir, I salute you for achieving this towering accolade.

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

So farewell Duchesse de Nemours. You’ve flowered your socks off, more than 50 amazing blooms,and here is your last hurrah, looking bridal with Ammi. Peeps, this is my top white peony. Tall, perfumed, unfussy, reliable.

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Vivienne Parry

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4 years

A froth of alchemilla, persicaria and two varieties of phlox, which I grow to remind me of my grandpa’s garden, and there’s a monarda buried in here too.

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4 years

Wonderful bouquet of wildflowers to delight you from the unkempt bits of my garden: chicory, hedge & lady’s bedstraw, common & greater knapweed, toadflax, musk mallow, origanum, scabious & meadow cranesbill

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Vivienne Parry

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3 years

Today it’s hyacinths, the dark red Woodstock with some blues. They smell fantastic.

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3 years

Garden is sodden and blown to bits but this lovely honeysuckle was still clinging on to the wall for dear life

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4 years

Drama for a Tuesday: black Night Rider lily with a deep yellow tiger Lily’s day black elder

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4 years

Lovely bouquet to start your week, foxglove, antirrhinum, mad bottle brush sanguisorba and huge fat heads of hydrangea Annabelle

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3 years

Last tulip jewels of the week. Random selection here but love how they glow.

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2 years

It’s 38 degrees. The parrots have come out. French. Gorgeous. My secret indulgence no more

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4 years

For Easter Monday, a bunch of ephemeral Dwarf Iris, gorgeous white and purple swirls. This one is called Knick Knack.

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3 years

Ice cream colours for a sunny Spring day. Pink and cream hyacinth with the lovely early tulip Ice Stick

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3 years

This morning’s haul of sweet peas. I only grow the ones that are very highly scented and these are fantastic.

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Vivienne Parry

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5 years

If you are taking HRT for tough menopause please don’t panic. Risk of breast cancer increase is small and less than that associated with 1 glass of wine daily and much less than risk from being overweight. See my book truth about hormones

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4 years

Morning. A merry selection of marigold, euphorbia and a fine deep yellow honeysuckle.

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3 years

These lovely things are edelweiss. I have a bit of an obsession with the Heidi books, so these had to be in the garden. They look as if they’ve been cut from white felt and are super easy to grow

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4 years

Today hyacinths, spring green tulip, Thalia narcissi and damson blossom

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4 years

Froth of cow parsley, tulip Tres Chic, pale blue Camassias and peeping out, spires of one of my faves, Veronica gentianoides

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4 years

Clematis Madame Julia Correvon, with spires of Heuchera and a pretty pink diascia

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5 years

So excited. Off to see the Large Hadron Collider today @CERN . And I spent the morning skiving at Hampton Court flower show stocking up on even more Salvias. #topday

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4 years

A zinger to end the week. Marigolds, a purple geranium and a funny old Sweet William called Green Trick which has a pom-poms of green flowers

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