Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A look back but unusually for me, a new post and not robbing the back catalogue. October this year, so autumn rather than frigid winter (here in the UK it's Arctic Blast all the way). But having visited Hauser & Wirth and making tentative forays into putting energy into these pages, well this was as…
Continue reading ➞ Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (October 2022)
First there was a wide pool of water with the floating heads of Hellebores, upturned to enjoy the sunshine. Garden gathered Anna's Red, White Tutu and the original, purple Tutu, Winter Moonbeam, a few hybrids... then came the big freeze - and it seems, though this was March 2018, a cold snap is on it's…
Continue reading ➞ Floating Hellebores …. sunshine and ice
More thieving from my back catalogue of articles, this one doubly so since it originally featured in September a few years ago, featuring images taken from 2014 onwards - and repeated again in April of this year. But spring-flowering bulbs are available now so this time of year is probably the most useful as bulbs can be…
A cheat, since I haven't left my post code even recently, but I've definitely enjoyed looking back at some of the gardens visited in the autumn of 2017 across the Perigord and Dordogne - and this was the highlight, the gardens at Eryignac. The sun was shining and since the topiary and design were…
Continue reading ➞ Teddington Gardener abroad – Eyrignac et ses Jardins in the Dordodgne …
Once more wandering through the archives of garden-visiting, photography and plant inspecting - at RHS Wisley right at the beginning of September in 2015 (four days hence and five years back). These gardens are not entirely the same now, in design, layout and content (what garden is?) but suspect that many of the plants…
What a lot of Hydrangeas - from a variety of destinations including RHS Wisley and the Savill Garden near Windsor. Probably a few from Golden Hill Nurseries down on the south coast who are specialists in this beautiful plant - definitely worth seeking out their expert knowledge at any future plant fair or flower show.…
Continue reading ➞ Hydrangeas and nothing but Hydrangeas ….
We are definitely coming into Hydrangea season and I'll go back through my own back catalogue for the best collection of stories and images on this diverse group. I'll start with a tour from RHS Wisley in August 2015 - and see what else I can find to add to the mix. If you…
August 2015 this was, though these border will have evolved rather than been altered wholesale. The fruit mount I think is improved with alternating swirls of lavender and rosemary where earlier plantings have never been entirely successful. But a delight to spend some time wandering through these borders, down the wide grass sward to the…
Continue reading ➞ The Glasshouse Borders at RHS Wisley – masterly and painterly, then – and now.
Another trip down memory lane - five years indeed to 1st August 2015 - and while there have been some significant changes at these RHS gardens - an entire new retail village and more coming besides - that particular first day of August really did look scrumptious. Enjoy. The double herbaceous borders at RHS Wisley…
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