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Plant portraits by Val Bourne
Val Bourne is an award-winning garden writer, photographer and lecturer. Val writes for The Daily Telegraph, The English Garden, Homes and Gardens and Saga Magazine and she is also the gardening correspondent of The Oxford Times.
Latest plant portrait
White hydrangeas have a fresh, virginal quality often in short supply in late-summer and autumn - a time when brash yellows and purples dominate a garden dedicated to colourful decadence. The conical heads of lime-green buds on the well-named ‘Limelight’ open to produce simply-structured, cream-white flowers with just a mere hint of pink to soften them. The heads are just heavy enough to make the branches sway, adding elegance and movement to this graceful shrub which will shine from late-July until November. Read more
