Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Excerpts from the RHS commentary on this early flowering cherry: This small tree packs a punch with beautiful deep-pink saucer flowers profusely borne on bare stems. It is a favourite of our gardeners because it gives a splash of intense colour before the other showy flowering trees such as magnolias... really get going. The ornamental…
Continue reading ➞ Prunus ‘Kursar’
Red maples are famed for their autumn show, with fiery tints and golds, but spring give us something special too by way of quite significant flowers, held against bare stems. This photograph taken last March, the 15th, in the arboretum at RHS Wisley. Acer rubrum Red Sunset is a star and together with October Glory…
Continue reading ➞ Acer rubrum Red Sunset (Franksred)
The Teddington Gardener 