Chokushi-Mon, a Japanese Garden at Kew

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The Japanese Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Beautiful here in mid-winter, with sculpted box, evergreen waves of Liriope muscari, flowering Iris unguicularis, clipped Pachysandra terminalis, Cotoneaster and Callicarpa in berry, a few choice Chaenomeles flowers, beautifully spreading Winter Cherry – Prunus subhirtella Autumnalis, sunshine and raked gravel.

Prunus subhirtella Autumnalis
Prunus subhirtella Autumnalis
Chaenomeles sepciosa
Iris unguicularis
Iris unguicularis
iris unguicularis
Callicarpa Profusion
Sorbus alnifolia
Sorbus alnifolia

 

http://www.kew.org/heritage/places/japaneselandscape.html

Published by The Teddington Gardener

Martin Ogden - gardener and photographer, rose-whisperer and garden wanderer. Loving all things horticultural and learning every day. On the cusp of new adventures in Dorset...

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