Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – March 2014 – Kew and Wisley, The Savill Garden and Petersham Nurseries. Spring advances.

Ilex aquifolium Bacciflava

Iris danfordiae

Prunus Kurzar

Prunus Okame

Piet Oudolph Borders

Peach Bonanza

Camellia pitardii yunnansis

Daphne mezereum f alba Bowles’s variety

Lamprocapnos spectabilis Alba

My first March visit to Kew Gardens

A purchase of a very brilliant little machine – scarifying and aerating the lawn with ease…

My first March visit to Kew Gardens – taking in the Pagoda, Chokushi-mon Japanese Landscape, the Xstrata and some of the arboretum.

My first week at Petersham Nurseries, at the beginning of March – and my introduction to Thug, the Petersham Cat…

Heading over to The Savill Garden for a look at the blossom…

Pulmonaria

Rhododendron macabeanum

Helleborus x hybridus Double Queen Mixed

Double Queen Mixed hellebores

Rhododendrom (Cornubia x Loderi) Rosamond

C. Tricolor

Camellia Elizabeth Rothschild

Rhododendron Titness Park

Camellia Salutation

Magnolia sargentiana var robusta

Magnolia sargentiana var robusta

Pale narcissus and crocus in The Glades

Guiseppi Verdi

Magnolia, Rhododendron, Camellias, Pulmonarias, Hellebore, Spring bulbs…. all at the superlative gardens within Windsor Great Park. Meanwhile, Spring is coming to Petersham Nurseries –

Spring symphony with orange, yellow and chartreuse green

The Cutting Garden, filling up already

Alpine Strawberries

Pulsatilla alba

Pulsatilla rubra

Pulsatilla alba

Pulsatilla rubra

Sweet Pea seedlings

Harper’s Bazaar Fashion Shoot at Petersham Nurseries

In my two Kew projects.. above and below

The most wonderful Chaenomeles on sale at Petersham. The name will come to me though I have added one to the smaller Kew Garden project. More from Petersham below…

Green parrot tulip

White borage

A white form of Fritillaria persica

Kew, Wisley and a first for the year, The Savill Garden and of course now Petersham Nurseries, plus spring planting in my own garden projects.