Just to redress the balance (i.e. not orange), a single hot pink tulip, elevated into something altogether classier by virtue of the silver sheen on the reverse of the petals. Its name escapes me for the moment...
Month: April 2014
Solanum crispum Glasnevin – the beautiful blue potato vine
Solanum crispum 'Glasnevin' I might try this climber, this year, in the space I have cleared in my garden, having removing a large stand of laurel - and let is scramble through the remaining shrubbery. Mine is a north-west facing garden, but one longer boundary, almost entirely obscured by Cotinus, Pyracantha, Lonicera Winter Beauty, ivy,…
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A day in the life… lawncare – how to deal with moss (see WMD’s), tulip displays, a bit of planting and planning a blue & white border….
Just on my doorstep, a bright sparky tulip to set me on my way - and amid a street full of blossom, something a little darker than the usual bubble-gum pinks many Cherries adopt - And on to my first job, a local garden with a lawn more moss than grass - a fine, deep…
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A bolt of voltage orange – Get thee behind me, pale pastels!
Anyone who has seen my Facebook or Twitter account (@Martin_Ogden), will already have seen pictures of these intense-shock-therapy-orange tulips, a furnace-like pot of them on my front doorstep - but I am in a proselytizing mood and Orange domination is the theme... If you are uncertain as to my commitment to this bravest of colour…
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Ruby and Gold – but which maple is it?
I have a feeling this was the coral bark maple, Acer Sanko-Kaku - but then it is a quite mature shrub and not more than 4'tall, so that might rule it out. 'Corralinum' has the right stem, but the first flush of leaves are shrimp pink... I'll be looking out my copy of Vertrees 'Japanese…
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Gravity (and in a Sandra Bullock way too…) Isaac Newton’s Apple Tree
Isaac Newton's Apple Tree - a direct descented to that fêted tree I was going to wait until this unassuming little apple tree came into flower - soon - but couldn't wait. It's been given a feed (liquid seaweed) and a good water and we will wait and watch. For it is an Important Tree…
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Almost Wisteria time… a diary note to visit Nymans and BBC4 ‘British Gardens in Time’ tonight
Nearly time for the annual Wisteria Blossom Show - some, like this example, are almost there - others are just showing plump, silky buds on a bare fretwork of stems, but a few more days of warmth and sunshine and it will be Showtime! A divine few weeks of peppery-scented intense blues, ghostly blues and…
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Bengal Beauty – A First Class Rose with First Prize for the First Flowers of the Year…
The China rose - Bengal Beauty - or Bengal Crimson - the first Old Roses to flower at Petersham - the first of any of them by a country mile! A deep cherry-red - large sumptiously-coloured single blooms, with a stretch and a twist, set against deep green, purple-flushed foliage. And set to flower continuously…
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Lilac hues in the glasshouse – Passiflora ‘Amethyst’
Passiflora 'Amethyst'- a tender, vigorous climber suitable for the conservatory. A lilac/lavender cousin of the more usual blue Passiflora caerulea. (P. caerulea is a hardy climber, more or less happy outside whatever the weather) Of Amethyst - this beauty can survive outside, down to 0°C, if the new wood has had time to…
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