Chokushi-Mon, a Japanese Garden at Kew

January 20, 2014

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

Chaenomeles sepciosa

Iris unguicularis

iris unguicularis

Callicarpa Profusion

Sorbus alnifolia

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

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Martin Ogden - gardener and photographer, rose-whisperer and garden wanderer. Heading into my sixth year now at the heart of the Horticultural Team at Petersham Nurseries.

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