Back to the UK – a little tour of RHS Wisley. A real taste of Autumn

The King and Queen

Aster Cotswold Gem

Aster x frikartii Jungfrau

Jungfrau

Aster x frikartii Wunder von Stafa

Symphytotricum noviae Badsey Pink-anglea

Badsey Pink

Cyclamen hederifolium

Prunus serrula

Helenium

Panicum virgatum Shenandoah

Panicum virgatum Shendandoah

Aconitum carmichaelii Arendsii Group

Miscanthus sinensis Undine

Aconitum carmichaelii Arendii Group

Amsonia orientalis

Liquidamber Lane Roberts

Liquidamber styraciflua Rotundiloba

Pseudolarix amabilis

Liquidamber formosana Ivanho’s Clone

Pseudolarix amabilis

Cornus kousa var. chinensis

Pseudolarix amabilis

In the Glasshouse Borders

Pseudolarix amabilis

Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis

Pseudolarix amabilis

Glycyrriza yunnanensis

Hibiscus moscheutos

The Glasshouse Borders

Amsonia

Medlar Westerveld

Helianthus x laetiflorus

Dahlia Josie Gott

Helianthus x laetiflorus

Dahlia Hillcrest Candy

Dahlia April Heather

Dahlia Hillcrest Candy

Dahlia Otto’s Thrill

Dahlia Westerton Folly

Dahlia April Heather

Dahlia Otto’s Thrill

Ipomoea

Dahlia Otto’s Thrill

Dahlia Otto’s Thrill

Dahlia Jonanda

Dahlia Otto’s Thrill

Koelreutlra paniculata

Hydrangea Vanille Fraise

Rosa x odorata Sanguinea Group – Bengal Crimson

The Exotic Garden

One of the long Double Borders

Anemone Honorine Jobert

Cirsium Pink Blush

Anemone Dreaming Swan

Centaurea dealbata Cornflower

Dahlia karma Choc

Lobelia Monet Moment

Salvia Ember’s Wish

Nerine bowdenii

Hemerocallis Frozen Jade

Gentian sino-ornata

Camellia sasanqua Sensation Pink

Galanthus Autumn Belle

Gentian Orya

Dianthus Neon Star

Geranium Rozanne

Malus Comtesse de Paris

Phalaenopsis hybrid Kaola Twinkle

Oncidium Sweet Sugar

Zygopetalum

Stephanotis

Salvia Ember’s Wish

A free afternoon (washing done, a trip to Sainsbury’s to follow) and a quick drive out to the RHS gardens at Wisley – blue skies and sunshine, alas not continuing into the weekend – but so much to see as I wandered past the lake to the Glasshouse Borders and South African Meadow, up through the Arboretum behind the Piet Oudolf Borders, clipping past the Orchards and Fruit Garden and down past the Dahlias, Model Gardens, the top of the new Tropical Garden and out through the Plant Centre.

I left for another time, the Bowes Lyon Rose Garden, Seven Acre Wood, Battleston Hill and lots more but the supermarket beckoned… Hugely busy today, I didn’t know it was their Festival of Trees (October 6-8), RHS Photo Competition display (5-25 October) and the start of Amazing Apples (October 6-19). An exhibition of their new Welcome Centre (where their Library once was, behind, where once, the Grass Borders lived). Much building, demolition and construction to be seen all abouts.

Plus, there were these characters charming the adults and rather puzzling the children ….