http://www.hintongardendesign.co.uk/blog in the garden today, tomorrow & every day...eventually Tue, 27 May 2008 11:01:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Of the thousands of orchid species and cultivars grown worldwide, relatively few are hardy enough to be cultivated outdoors in the UK. And of these, only a handful fit comfortably into the more formal parts of the garden. One such is Bletilla striata. Such an exotic-looking plant may at first give ... http://www.hintongardendesign.co.uk/blog/bletilla-striata/ Of all the different types of fragrance emitted by flowering plants, the scent of honey must rank as one of the more unusual. In gardens, it is probably most often encountered in the flowers of the shrubby spurge Euphorbia mellifera and in those of its close cousin, E. stygiana. Given ... http://www.hintongardendesign.co.uk/blog/euphorbia-stygiana/ The tree peonies, of which Paeonia delavayi is one, make up a group of extremely hardy shrubs (definitely not trees) which are amongst the easiest of garden plants to cultivate. They will tolerate most soils, flower reliably year after year and regenerate from hard pruning. Some, like P. delavayi and ... http://www.hintongardendesign.co.uk/blog/paeonia-delavayi/ There are some plants which I would always make room for in my own garden, no matter how small that garden might be; and Akebia quinata is one such plant. It is a vigorous, semi-evergreen, twining climber which is great for covering walls or old tree stumps and if left ... http://www.hintongardendesign.co.uk/blog/akebia-quinata/