Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Salvia Wendy's Wish Wendy's Wish is a new variety from Austrailia, and is thought to be a cross possibly between buchananii and chiapensis, with large bright purple flowers set in red calyces. Flowering from spring until autumn over a neat and bushy plant. Height 80cm (32"). Spread 60cm (24"). Very easy to grow, drought tolerant and…
Continue reading ➞ Wendy’s Wish
I'm afraid I don't know which cultivar of Hamamelis this is (a sale item, healthy enough but long since separated from any identifying label) but what gorgeous autumn colouring.... I'll have to wait a few months to see the distinctive thread-like and hopefully fragrant flowers, on bare winter branches, to determine who this is. In…
Continue reading ➞ Intimations of Autumn – Witch Hazel and Virginia Creeper
A few years ago, this scene, in front of the extraordinary Château and gardens at Villandry, in the Loire Valley. Where the rest of the photographs are, well I'll have to do some searching as they are not on this computer - was it long ago enough that there were actual negatives and prints? http://www.chateauvillandry.fr http://thegallopinggardener.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/villandry-is-this-worlds-most-perfect.html…
Continue reading ➞ Memories of the extraordinary Chateau de Villandry
The Teddington Gardener 