Green Leaves and Flowers
Collection by Pumpkin Beth • Last updated 7 weeks ago
Photographs of green plants, green leaves or green flowers.
Orchids at Kew Gardens' Orchid Festival 2019 - Pumpkin Beth
Contents1 Orchids at Kew1.1 Phalaenopsis1.2 Vanilla orchids1.3 Cattleya trianae1.4 Restrepia contorta1.5 Paphiopedilums1.6 Vandas1.7 Tolumnia1.8 Cymbidiums1.9 Oncidopsis1.10 Miltonias1.11 Dendrobiums1.12 Exotic plants1.13 Oncidiums1.14 Coelogyne1.15 Oerstedella1.16 Dendrochilum1.17 Masdevallia1.18 Miltoniopsis Orchids at Kew The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew hold a special place in my heart. These accessible gardens…
How to Plant Beautiful Bottle Gardens and Terrific Terrariums! - Pumpkin Beth
I love terrariums and bottle gardens! I so enjoy designing tiny plant worlds and creating miniature gardens. This is the ideal time to build a terrarium or bottle garden, these Lilliputian microcosms are fun to make! Terrariums will enhance your home and provide the perfect…
Getting the best results from your compost and growing broad beans - Pumpkin Beth
Every year I run Compost Trials to discover the best quality peat-free composts on the market. Dalefoot Composts have produced the top performing composts in all of my Trials, over the past seven years. One of my favourite products is Dalefoot’s Double Strength Wool Compost,…
The Savills and David Harber Garden, at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show - Pumpkin Beth
Garden Designer, Andrew Duff, sculptor David Harber, and Estate Agents Savills have worked together to produce a Show Garden for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019. This garden was created with a shared desire to demonstrate how to add useful and effective, natural beauty to…
Compost Trial: Growing Broad Beans - Pumpkin Beth
Growing Angraecum distichum - Pumpkin Beth
I love looking at this orchid; I so admire Angraecum distichum‘s shape and form, this plant’s simple, leafy stems are a thing of beauty. I love to see young and old Angraecum distichum specimens; whatever the plant’s size, I find Angraecum distichum utterly mesmerising! Angraecum…
The Tomatoes in my Quadgrow are still growing! - Pumpkin Beth
The Tomatoes in my Quadgrow are still growing! This year, I’ve been running more Trials with Tomatoes; I’ll share all the results from my Tomato Trials with you in due course, but today I wanted to show you my Quadgrow Self Watering Planter. Most of…
Grow your own figs & grapes for delicious summer & autumn fruits - Pumpkin Beth
Grow your own figs and grapes Holidaymakers buying plants or collecting plant material as holiday souvenirs often bring home more than they bargained for and unwittingly transport pests, diseases, or invasive species into the UK; causing lasting, and sometimes irreversible, problems for themselves and UK horticulture as a whole. Instead, make your holiday excitement last all summer, every year, with UK grown plants that will flourish inside your conservatory or glasshouse, at your garden or…
A Calendar of Special Snowdrop Garden Openings, Talks, Events & Open Days for 2020 - Pumpkin Beth
Contents1 Snowdrop Events Calendar 20202 Snowdrop Events held in January 20202.1 Snowdrop gardens open by prior arrangement during January 20202.2 Snowdrop events and garden openings calendar January 20202.3 Snowdrop gardens opening daily or weekly during January 20203 Snowdrop Events held in February 20203.1 Snowdrop gardens…
The RHS Back to Nature Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019 - Pumpkin Beth
Contents1 RHS Back to Nature Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 20191.1 A reminder of the importance of connecting with nature and with our children1.2 RHS Back to Nature Garden features1.3 Planting1.4 RHS Back to Nature Garden relocation1.5 Duchess renews her message, working with…
Grow Your Own Mistletoe - Pumpkin Beth
Mistletoe is a prized plant at Christmas time, when it’s the custom to decorate our homes with the berries and foliage of holly, ivy, and mistletoe, in celebration of the season. I’ve always greatly admired the evergreen spherical forms that mature mistletoe specimens hold high…
What am I growing inside my Vegepod? - Pumpkin Beth
Contents1 What am I growing inside my Vegepod?1.1 Moving the Vegepod1.2 What compost am I using inside my Vegepod?1.3 Using a Vegepod in full shade1.4 What can you grow inside a Vegepod in shade?1.5 Watering the Vegepod1.6 Using a Vegepod to avoid pests1.7 Growing my…
What to do with your tomatoes in September & how to ripen unripe tomatoes! - Pumpkin Beth
What to do with your tomatoes in September As autumn’s whisper reverberates through our landscape, many plants are now fading, as they respond to the changing season and become rapidly aged by the ever lengthening nights’ embrace. This is a season of salvage, protection, and celebration; it’s time to bring tender plants inside our homes, conservatories, and glasshouses, and to gather in our harvest. If your tomato plants have produced an abundance of green tomatoes, which have yet to ripen…
Treat Yourself to a New Asparagus Bed! - Pumpkin Beth
Treat yourself to a new asparagus bed! An asparagus bed is one of life’s luxuries; an area of ground dedicated solely to the production of one glorious vegetable! It may seem an extravagance, but I can assure you that an asparagus bed is 100% worth the investment, as freshly harvested asparagus is a true delicacy. Home-grown asparagus, cooked a short while after harvesting, is a vastly superior vegetable to shop-bought stuff, its sweet flavour is utterly delectable! Asparagus planting time…
Grow Microgreens: they're Quick, Easy, & Delicious! - Pumpkin Beth
Dependable Houseplants you Can fall in Love with & Rely on - Pumpkin Beth
Do you have enough houseplants? I don’t know about you, but I’m always willing to make room for more indoor plants. If you’re considering purchasing a new houseplant and you’re keen to make a lasting purchase, hoping for the long-term, leafy love affair we all dream of, then I have some fabulous ideas for you… Ceropegia linearis subsp. woodii is also known as String of Hearts or Hearts Entangled. Ceropegia linearis subsp. woodii can be grown in a hanging basket or in a planter on a tall…