In my last post I rather clumsily justified my inclusion of the Canada Lily on the altar frontal  by guessing that some garden somewhere in Ipsden was sure to be growing it (when the real reason was that I couldn’t resist embroidering such a fabulous flower). No doubt you’ll be thinking I’ll be making the […]

My original lily was undoubtedly a tiger lily (L. lancifolium) which I associate so strongly with childhood gardens that I was quite taken aback to discover has only been cultivated in England for about 200 years. But my ignorance puts me in some excellent company for Gertrude Jekyll so loved the Asiatic Tiger lily that […]