Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Like I said, an Inventory ... The Victorian Walled Garden The Victorian Walled Garden is a formal garden made up of three circular borders, which diminish in width towards the centre. They are planted with English Roses and other repeat-flowering shrub roses. The focal point of the garden is the large central stone carving. Visitors can…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – Seconds from David Austin Roses
A first look at the Long Garden, mostly, at the eponymous gardens at Albrighton - just a short drive from our base near Shrewsbury and a beautiful, inspirational stop-over on our way to Woodstock. I realised of course today that I have effectively inventories the gardens, as I might once have done to a flat…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – a first gallery from David Austin Roses at Albrighton
Another Welsh Castle, this time quite the fortified beast, with a dungeon that surely brought despair to anyone unhappy enough to find themselves there. Much to enjoy in the gardens though with formal and more naturalistic planting and long views - and glad to have been able to take photographs of the interiors too. Read…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Wales – Chirk Castle
Erddig, now in the hands of the National Trust, represents a House and Estate that had suffered successive generations (seven or more) of penury and all of the neglect that comes with well-intentioned but financially improverished ownership. Good intentions but lack of funds saw this beauty diminished until the NT took the helm and have…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Wales – Erddig
Strong winds and lashing rain as we left Shropshire and headed into Wales (by Welshpool - not that great a distance from our starting point at Wollaston Lodge) to visit the extraordinary castle and gardens at Powis Castle. More impressive than I was expecting too - the topiary and towering hedges yes, but not the…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Wales – Powis Castle and Gardens
Continuing our tour of the Shropshire countryside and making good use of our National Trust membership, next stop Attingham Park. Bringing a Regency mansion back to life, the National Trust have saved, conserved and then breathed new life into this house, the interiors and estate. A magical set of rooms inside the House - Upstairs…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – Attingham Park
Well it has been a busy week - holidaying in the English & Welsh countryside, with sunshine and rain in equal parts and some beautiful castles, gardens, nurseries and stately homes to keep us company. Based for the the first part of this last week near Shrewsbury in Shropshire (the excellent Wollaston Lodge B&B http://www.wollastonlodge.co.uk/ )…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – Wollerton Old Hall Gardens
The Shade Garden A generous soul, I, for these are my notes for my workshop today on gardening in those shadier spaces in the garden - cool boundaries, beneath deciduous and evergreen trees, in dry and damp, northerly aspects all - and for shrubs, perennials, bulbs and annuals that will help create a year-round tapestry of beautiful…
Continue reading ➞ Cool plants for shady gardens …
The Teddington Gardener 