Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
The Lark Ascending I'm chuffed that Lynn Hunt and The Dirt Diaries included some comments of mine on the new crop of David Austin roses set to conquer America in 2014 (not every UK introduction crosses the pond automatically and if they do, it is at least a year later than their original Chelsea debut).…
Continue reading ➞ The Dirt Diaries preview new US introductions from David Austin
This is my beautiful, but simple, orchid exhibition at home - just the two phalaenopsis (moth) orchids. I'm prompted to photograph them given the imminent opening, next weekend, of the annual orchid display at Kew Gardens, transporting an already tropical Princess of Wales Conservatory into a technicolour paradise. I urge you to go if you…
Continue reading ➞ Escape Winter – Orchids at Kew 2014
I've been trying to find the photographs from my September 2011 visit to Great Dixter, Christopher Lloyd's superb garden in Sussex - but they are clearly misfiled somewhere in the deeper recesses of my computer.... An album of 135 pics is to be found on my Facebook page, with the link below, though this only…
Continue reading ➞ Great Dixter for Facebook
The Plantsman's Walk, Or a little less than one quarter of it, leading into the Walled Gardens at Scampston in North Yorkshire. An avenue of limes with a border mainly of spring-flowering plants, including Paeonie rockii and Edgworthia chrystantha (two of my favourite plants, featured earlier in these entries), underplanted with many bulbs, and autumn…
Continue reading ➞ Scampston Walled Garden
Newby Hall & Gardens, Ripon A week exploring North Yorkshire and much to see was there! Newby Hall & Gardens, near Ripon, was near the top of the list of attractions and a real plant hunters delight with much that is rare and unusual. The National Collection of Cornus kousa, a whole garden of salvias…
Continue reading ➞ A Yorkshire Tale
Don't worry, I'm sure it's just a phase. Indulging my delight in all things orange, with the return of the deciduous azalea, coming in to flower roundabouts now (yellows, reds, pinks, purples too, of course). The Grand Display may possibly a little later than in previous years, but time enough to plan a visit to…
Continue reading ➞ The return of something orange…
First things first... Teddington Gardener's Facebook Page This is where it all started, when the internet, gardening professionally and the Teddington Gardener got together on Facebook.  Notes on all things horticultural, my own work too, links and posts I have found interesting and thousands of photographs covering garden projects, gardens I've visited and hundreds of…
Continue reading ➞ Where it all began…Teddington Gardener’s Facebook Page
The Teddington Gardener 