Month: July 2014

RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – my favourite Show Gardens

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Vestra Wealth's Garden (above) http://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-hampton-court-palace-flower-show/exhibitors/Hampton-gardens/vestra-wealths-vista This is a smart, modern garden for a contemporary home. Various levels and layers of planting and hard landscaping surround a dining terrace with a cantilevered cedar table. Gabions are surrounded by copper and packed with split timber, which helps to encourage wildlife. Clipped box lawns are used as alternatives to…

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RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – more from the Show Gardens (Part II)

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Halo Garden (above) http://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-hampton-court-palace-flower-show/exhibitors/Hampton-gardens/halo Halo is a Mediterranean-style garden based on the idea of a traditional Greek island. The garden has been created on a budget of £13,000. Typical Greek features include white boat sails, a blue halo as a modern interpretation of the traditional Greek Orthodox Church dome and Mediterranean planting, together with traditional paths and…

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Souvenir du Docteur Jamain – a rose with perfect form, a rich deep colour and superb, intense fragrance… #roseheaven @PetershamN

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There are Old Roses and there are Classic Old Roses and this beauty has to be in the top echelons of rose society. Rich deep colour, velvety blooms and a complex Old Rose fragrance combine to make this absolutely one of my favourites. Treated as a tall, rather lanky shrub, or a short climber, Souvenir…

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RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – a look at The Show Gardens…. Part I

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above, elements from the Jordans Wildlife Garden http://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-hampton-court-palace-flower-show/exhibitors/Hampton-gardens/jordans-wildlife-garden This garden has been developed to encourage visitors to bring a little bit of the British countryside into their gardens. Inspired by the Hampton Court maze, meadow paths curve through layers of soft naturalistic planting and into a central terrace with a calm, reflective pool. Taller planting…

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Joining the blogging melee: Presenting the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show (Conceptual Gardens)

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The Conceptual Gardens, a category unique to this Flower Show. All the gardens represent one of the Deadly Sins. Above, Wrath - Eruption of Unhealed Anger, by designer Nilufer Danis. A Gold Medal exhibit. http://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-hampton-court-palace-flower-show/exhibitors/Hampton-gardens/eruption-of-unhealed-anger The theme of this garden is wrath or anger. The design depicts uncontrolled feelings of anger as emotional pressure, self-destructiveness,…

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A little shopping….

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Not the most glamorous of photographs but this was a successful outing yesterday, shopping for pots and plants. This, soon to be polished, wooden planter just about found room in the van and will become the base for a perennial meadow. I found some large copper planters elsewhere, 80cm round and tall, which will find…

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Before we get to Hampton Court, a gallop through Luton Hoo, Wrest Park and more from Petersham Nurseries – hurrying to keep up with the virtual mountain of photography…

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Taxi?! Luton Hoo, in Bedfordshire, has a fascinating history, the family seat of an über-weathly family who lost almost all their fortunes in the credit-crunch of the 1980's. Fabergé eggs once sat casually on side tables! It is now an Elite Hotel, and lovely too, with formal gardens and parkland and nearby, a Land Rover…

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