Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Shaun is an auricula, a primrose, and I turn to a book I picked up recently, The Gardeners' Enquire Within, Jubilee Souvenir 1930, Editor A J Macself, (Editor of Amateur Gardening), for details of this Florists' Flower, for that is what an auricula is, a Florists' Flower. This term really has no connection with the…
Continue reading ➞ Meet Shaun…
A rather lovely bulbous plant, Muscari latifolium, where the lati or latus means wide, as in the 'wide leaved grape hyacinth' Â - it develops just the one wide leaf, quite tulip like in fact. Happiest in full sun though tolerant of some light shade and do keep it from being wet in winter. The fertile,…
Continue reading ➞ Muscari latifolium (grape hyacinth)
A very recent post has an elegant bud of this particular Magnolia, Black Tulip, just beginning to break, but with little sign that it would develop into these great blossoms, many inches across. Time to get back to RHS Wisley, where this photograph was taken in 2010, for an update on this particular specimen.
A curious time just now, with daffodils flowering brightly next to equally blooming Lavender (the dark arts of the nursery trade), primroses next to summer darlings such as the osteospermum with spoon-shaped petals. Not long ago these South African daisies were an unusual feature but they are a common bedding plant today from spring onwards…
Continue reading ➞ Beautifully mad – Osteospermum Whirligig
The Teddington Gardener 