Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Viola Citrus (above) with Pansy Citrus (below) Hardy things, violas and pansies, and excellent for injecting some welcome long-term colour into seasonal displays - not that there is much shortage in the garden at the moment, but as the season moves deeper into autumn and on into winter and pigments leach from the landscape, these…
Continue reading ➞ Little and Large (and Orange)
Another outing for this article, originally posted in August, but even more timely now... Locally, the RHS Taste of Autumn Show is on at Wisley from the 16th to 20th October - for more information, follow the link - http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardens/Wisley/What-s-on/Taste-of-Autumn An apple a day... 'Tis the season, almost, of mellow fruitfulness and home-grown fruit has…
Another seasonal photo-montage, (picture, paint, thousand etc.,) from The Savill Garden - actually a series of glorious gardens set within Windsor Great Park, looking particularly fine come Autumn time. All this and the huge parkland surrounding Virginia Water. A fine Day Out. Britain's finest ornamental garden, The Savill Garden is a true wonder. It's a…
Continue reading ➞ Royal Landscapes – The Savill Garden
Napping quietly on Stokesia Klaus Jellito. Sch.....
I can just about get to the front door, after three hours of potting and pottering, pretty much everything has a new winter home... A maintenance day today - bright blue skies, chill, the wicked wind has died down and I've lots of plants to pot up into more suitable containers before the weather really…
If a picture paints a thousand words, there is at least a novella here and so I'll let the photographs do the talking. (These images are 'reverse engineered' from the larger Facebook Album referred to in a recent post - the originals are still hiding in the computer...) These pictures catalogue my September 2011 visit…
Continue reading ➞ Autumn at Great Dixter
A very pretty evergreen perennial, with strap-like leaves and these starry sprays of pale pink flowers. Schizostylis deserves to be much better known for its ability to bloom in autumn and puts on a good show despite worsening weather. The plants resemble small clumps of fragile gladioli with long thin foliage and upright flower-spikes, each…
Continue reading ➞ Sch….. Schizostylis coccinea Jennifer
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
Anemone Wild Swan In flower from May to November, growing knee-high, and with refined foliage (more Anemone sylvestris than Anemone x hybrida), the standout feature of this relatively new introduction is the reverse of the otherwise pure white bloom - a three painted flashes of liac-purple. With flowers held above the foliage on wiry stems,…
Continue reading ➞ A swan? Me a swan? Ah, go on!
The Teddington Gardener 