Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
The Kilmarnock Willow (Salix caprea 'Kilmarnock) is a beauty at this time of year - a weeping head of stems top-worked (grafted) onto a trunk - of short, medium or tall proportion - with long, straight trailing stems studded with silky furry dormice (catkins I mean). At other times of year I think you might…
Continue reading ➞ Little mices… the Kilmarnock Willow looking its furry best
and finally, the shop - orchid mania due to the extravaganza going on in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
I called into the plant centre at RHS Wisley - for me almost as interesting as some of the gardens! - and of course the hellebores caught my eye. Anna's Red and Penny's Pink, naturally. Walberton's Rosemary, which is planted to such good effect in the raised bed just as you enter the gardens from…
Continue reading ➞ did someone mention Hellebores?
A happy half an hour in the Davies Alpine House in Kew Gardens this afternoon. I had thought the selection of plants at Wisley - and their presentation in the traditional Alpine House with raised benches and terracotta pots sunk into sand - was my favourite display but then here we are at Kew, with…
Continue reading ➞ Big Love* from the Davies Alpine House at Kew
Spring is arriving at the Plant Centre at RHS Wisley - always packed full of irresistible plants , I regularly spend half as much time wandering from bench to bench as I do in the Gardens themselves. The range of trees, herbaceous plants, grasses, shrubs, climbers, roses, conifers, specimen plants, fruit trees, bulbs (but not…
Continue reading ➞ RHS Wisley – Tales from the Plant Centre
Crocus Jeanne D'Arc Crocus tricolor
Antique urn with Hellebore Pirouette, Muehlenbeckia and moss.. A new delivery of some very old things! The delicious red-flowering standard camellia is very Alice in Wonderland The cutting border - the bulbs are coming through and I can't wait to see what buried treasure we have here. The border will develop through the year providing…
Continue reading ➞ A little slice of Petersham – and a little announcement
Morning and evening on the River Thames at Isleworth - two images sandwiching a beautifully balmy, clear-blue-sky day. A few more days like these, please...
The woods of the Wild Garden, betwixt the Rock Garden, Alpine Meadow and Seven Acres (at RHS Wisley) were bright and fragrant with witch hazels, with names I had read about but not seen either on Battleston Hill nor at Kew. These delicate thread-like flowers are completely hardy and will thrive, unharmed by snow and…
Continue reading ➞ Still bewitched by Witch Hazels…
The Teddington Gardener 