Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A selection of colourful delights from the Davies Alpine House at Kew, from last week. Bent back and scuffed knees, getting these images, but I love these displays, and as a special treat, there is 'behind the scenes' access to the Alpine Glasshouses and the work of the Alpine gardeners at Kew this coming weekend,…
Butterflies in the Glasshouse at RHS Wisley and moving into the Alpine House next - Plenty of treaures in the Alpine House, Fritillaries especially on this visit Butterflies, first, in the Glasshouse at RHS Wisley - happily I timed my visit on one of the last days of this event (I feared I'd missed it)…
Continue reading ➞ RHS Wisley this time around, Alpine treasures and Butterflies in the Glasshouse
Close, closer, close-up - Aloe africanum in the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew - a majestic specimen in flower, with nectar beading in the warm dry conditions. My new Sigma macro lens made a pretty good job of capturing the detail, even though I had to lean precariously over from the path, across some…
Continue reading ➞ Kew, orchids, alpines and enjoying life under the macro-lens
That's it I'm afraid - one large (albeit labelled) gallery - a pictorial tour of the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire earlier this month (well, a walk around some of it, but most of that put under the camera lens).... The Hamamelis collection I stumbled across was in very fine fettle, the highlight of…
I've been a little tardy in updating these pages with my horticultural comings and goings though in truth it has been little more than a couple of week's absence. Twitter has been tickled with news and horticultural highlights and I've made more of an attempt on Instagram to keep it well fed - I haven't…
Continue reading ➞ A little bit of catching up to do – first, a birthday with a view …
The Teddington Gardener 