Daughter of the Soil

Age: unknown, but pre-1860 Background: Yellow-podded. Historically significant for its probable role in the development of genetic science...

This is one of my hand-made hybrids, Mr Bethell's Purple Podded x Alderman being grown for seed I've now started harvesting some of...

Newly harvested pods of Desiree peas ready for shelling out I've been looking forward to trying out the Desiree peas. They are certain...

Among poppies I collected from the trenches of the Somme, a flower scape on Music garlic swerves out of a double loop-the-loop. I don't...

Pea Ne Plus Ultra The weather has become very hot, very quickly this year, and that's not an ideal situation for peas. They are cool sea...

Well, you saw how lovely the Salmon Flowered pea looked last week. This is what it looked like three days later. Whoooo! My blog has now cl...

Iceland poppies, Papaver nudicaule. These are actually golden yellow with orange streaks ... the camera hasn't managed to capture the co...

Now, you probably won't have seen one like this before. I certainly haven't. It showed up in the Heritage Seed Library catalogue th...

Here's the first of the oriental poppies (Papaver orientale) and this one didn't flower last year so I'm all the more grateful f...