Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Royal Bumble is a shrubby salvia with intense, dimunitive, cherry-red flowers and fragrant leaves, flowering from August through to the frosts, and teamed up here with the fine feathery stems of the grass Stipa tenuissima - wonderful, wispy, pale yellow-green leaves topped with fluffy plumes of silver-green flowers, maturing to blonde-buff. This versatile deciduous grass…
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Above - Helenium, Rudbeckia fulgida Goldsturm and Crocosmia George Davison. A busy day at Petersham Nurseries, after a 5am start to get to New Covent Garden Flower Market.... before closing the gates behind me this evening....
Another satellite dish of a Hibiscus, this time a rich brick-red. The same family as the white/blush pink cultivar I posted about a few days ago, and I was rather smitten with that one. That affair is over. My heart belongs to this one now. Here it is in shaft of sunlight -
Time to tidy up the planting in this garden yesterday, trimming the herbaceous planting (geraneums, nepeta, aconitum, alchemilla mollis) and shrubs (box topiary and Viburnum tinus standard, roses) and giving the lawn a spiral cut. The sun shone brightly too. The front garden, redesigned and planted earlier this year, has matured well though I neglected…
Continue reading ➞ Strawberry fields forever – an update on my Twickenham garden project
The Teddington Gardener 