Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
The Country Garden at RHS Wisley, a densely planted, enclosed garden, between the double Herbaceous Borders, the Jubilee Rose Gardens, AGM Beds and the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden. Always a favourite part of these extensive gardens, with strong lines formed by rectangular paths and a central round pool - allowing the planting to billow and drape…
Continue reading ➞ RHS Wisley, Country Gardens Style
The double herbaceous borders at the RHS Gardens at Wisley - lots of colour and some fantastic combinations. Enjoy!
Hampton Court Palace Gardens A whistle-stop tour of the Palace Gardens at the weekend and really rather glad to have seen them again - it has been too long. Rose gardens, walled gardens, the world's largest vine, parterres and very, very long borders. I think I will have to return for a closer look -…
Continue reading ➞ Hampton Court Palace Gardens – more than just a flower show
A trip to Farnborough Air Show today and while there were no horticultural highlights at all - the machines on display (spanning more than a century of aviation) and the flying/acrobatics in the air were superb. The Breitling Wingwalkers were sensational... http://www.aerosuperbatics.com/ For £399 you can have a go.... Normal Horticultural Services will resume shortly.
Working in my Roehampton Garden today, and in hindsight, I ought to have started at 6am rather than 10am as the mercury began to rise to what, 30°C, more? In any event, a good few hours and some definition brought back to one of the borders, the semi-circular one, which had morphed into a rather…
Continue reading ➞ Hot, Hot, Hot…
A few pictures from yesterday and today, two gloriously sunny days at Petersham Nurseries. Just lovely.
Another cheat, just a gallery this time, though there are thirty pictures here so I can't be excused of short-changing you, just that the commentary is a little thin...
Rather a cheat, this, a gallery of the Rose Marquee exhibits, but time is short and I will lay claim to the 'if a picture paints a thousand words' argument and leave you with twenty four thousand of them... I would make a mention of the Historic Roses Group, who were once again exhibiting (and…
Continue reading ➞ Roses all the way at Hampton Court Flower Show
The Teddington Gardener 