Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Plenty of choice here if you are looking to furnish your home and compliment a winter garden with white-flowering lovelies - tulips of course will be flowering outside next Spring but here is a taster of things to come. Paperwhite narcissus are properly in bloom now and fragrant they are too - next Spring look…
Ginko biloba - the prehistoric Maidenhair Tree, with a weeping form which is even more of an absolute gold mine, still, with generally larger leaves and longer leaf-stalks than its upright neighbours. Parrotia persica (below) gold with flashes of red and emerald. and finally, a Grandstand Wisteria... Just half an hour today at Kew Gardens…
Raindrops bedecking the hedgerows of Petersham Meadows this morning. After a chill, bright day, more rain expected.... Lovely effect, though.
Another satellite dish of a Hibiscus, this time a rich brick-red. The same family as the white/blush pink cultivar I posted about a few days ago, and I was rather smitten with that one. That affair is over. My heart belongs to this one now. Here it is in shaft of sunlight -
Hydrangeas can offer us hard pressed gardeners a garden plant with a very long period of interest. The bold leaves can be quite architectural and many offer up a few fiery tints come autumn-time. The flowers are long-lasting and very importantly, can die well, gently decaying over the course of a long autumn and into…
Continue reading ➞ Hydrangeas and the Art of Dying Gracefully
These sunflowers have come on a-pace in the last few weeks, and have put on height and a grand floral display that will continue until the frosts - and beyond - the blackening seedheads will be a structural element to the cutting garden as well as a wildlife food resource as the seeds ripen. Bright…
Continue reading ➞ Bring me Sunshine (reprise) with Sunflowers from the Cutting Garden
First, something deceptively simple and then something properly simple - a classier take on the jam jar in fact! In the large display, there's a haze punctuated by borage and poppy, crocosmia, ammi majus, veronicastrum, leucanthemum - anthemis too I think - echinops, sanguisorba and ... Lovely.
Tulip Rococo An early, short-ish tulip, in volcanic shades of scarlet, crimson, cerise and orange. Frilled, puckered and alternately silky-sheeny-shiny and matt, with yellow, green and black, for good measure. The carnival outfit for the outspoken plant in Little Shop of Horrors. An excellent variety for a container - these are in a quite shallow…
Continue reading ➞ Rococo – just the most flamboyant, frilled, flame-coloured Tulip
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