Category Archives: Alpine

Waterperry Gardens

June 21, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

I was at the HTA National Plant Show at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry yesterday, a tedious journey up and down the M40, especially back but I did make a grateful stop at the wonderful Waterperry Gardens near Oxford. Formerly Miss Havergal’s School of Horticulture for Ladies (who trained the Land Girls and much more…) these are both ravishing ornamental gardens and productive ones – some seriously beautifully trained fruit trees. Pretty much just the photos this time – it has […]

Categories: Alpine, Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Bedding, Bulbs, Climbing plants, Composting, container gardening, dark foliage plants, evergreen perennial, Evergreen shrubs, Exotic, Fragrant plants, Fruit Trees, Garden Design, General comment, herbaceous, Open to the public, Roses, Seasonal colour, Summer garden • Tags: Waterperry Gardens

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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018 – the show gardens, the great pavillion, the roses and … well, pretty much everything

May 24, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

From my walk through Chelsea, to the very last moment – a few hours in the company of the world’s greatest flower show….

Categories: Acid-loving plants, Alpine, annuals, Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Bulbs, Clematis, climbing plant, colour, container gardening, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, David Austin roses, Dry Garden, Evergreen shrubs, Exotic, floristry, Flower Shows, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, Garden Design, Grasses, Hellebore, herbaceous, House plants, Hydrangea, Indoor gardening, Iris, Japanese Maples (Acers), Kitchen Garden, late summer border, macropetala, Magnolia, Mediterranean Garden, Mottisfont Abbey, Open to the public, Orchids, Organic Gardening, Ornamental trees, Plants for a shady garden?, plants for roses, Rhododendron & Azalea, Roses, Seasonal colour, shade, Shrubs, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Summer garden, Television, Travel broadens the mind, Trees, Trees for smaller gardens, Tropical, Water gardening, White Garden, Wildlife gardening, Wisteria, Woodland Garden • Tags: 2018, 2018 new roses, artisan gardens, Ashwood Nurseries, Auriculas, Avon Bulbs, Binny Plants, Binny's Nurseries, Bonsai, Burncoose Nurseries, Cactus, Cayeux Iris, Chelsea, Chelsea Flower Show, Clematis, Cleve West, Cornwall, dahlias, Dalesfoot Compost, David Austin Roses, Dibleys, Downderry Nurseries, Emily Bronte, Great Pavillion, Harkness Roses, Hilliers, Jake Hobson, Joe Swift, Kelways, lavender, Lemon Tree Trust, LG, lots of purple, Lupins, M & G Garden, Main Avenue, Monty Don, new David Austin Roses, Niwaki, Orchids, peonies, Peter Beales, Raymond Evison, Rev. Richard Coles, Sneeboer, South Africa, The Mill on the Floss, Thorncroft Clematis, too much purple, Tottering-by-Gently, Violas, Wedgwood, Welcome to Yorkshire

A few hours at Kew Gardens – the newly re-opened Temperate House, Alliums on the Broadwalk, treetop walkway, the Hive, gorgeous Wisteria, a Rhododendron or three, and laburnum arches, waterlilies, the Davies Alpine House and Rock Garden, peonies galore, many remarkable trees, a Japanese landscape and the Pagoda … and much more-

May 15, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

If a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s a million. Kew Gardens today. Amazing, as ever –

Categories: Acid-loving plants, Alpine, annuals, Architectural Plants, Exotic, Garden Design, General comment, herbaceous, Indoor gardening, Mediterranean Garden, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Rhododendron & Azalea, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, shade, Shrubs, Trees, Trees for smaller gardens, Tropical, Water gardening, Wildlife gardening, Wisteria, Woodland Garden • Tags: broadwalk, Davies Alpine House, Kew Gardens, Lake, rhododendron, Rose Garden, Temperate House, Water Lily House, Wisteria, Xtrata walkway

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The RHS Spring Show – London

April 8, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Just a few bits and bobs from the Spring Plant Fair this past Friday, twinned as it was with the spectacular Orchid Show in the adjacent Hall. Some rather fine succulents and cactus, air plants aplenty and beautiful primroses. And a little tour of London town, as I made my way back through Westminster to Waterloo, playing tourist in the sunshine …

Categories: Alpine, Architectural Plants, Flower Shows, General comment, herbaceous, House plants, Indoor gardening, RHS London Show, spring flowering, Spring Garden • Tags: airplants, bromeliads, cacti, Horticultural Halls, RHS Show, RHS Spring Show, spring flowers, succulents

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An Alpine Springtime … more technicolor dreams from RHS Wisley

March 27, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Always a Springtime treat, the Alpine House and especially my local, at the RHS gardens at Wisley. Add in some glorious sunshine and these technicolor beauties really sing. I shared my time inside the Glasshouse with a raucous group of children tasked with drawing some of the specimens on show. All seem delighted with the bright colours and array of diverse plants hailing from far-flung corners of the world. Still, was glad after a quarter of an hour to get […]

Categories: Alpine, General comment, RHS WIsley • Tags: Albuca pendula, Alpine, Alpine Bench, Alpine House, Babiana rubrocyanea, Corydalis Hot Lips, Corydalis solida subs solida from Penza Russia, Cyrtanthus achroleucus, Cyrtanthus falcatus, Delosperma sphalmanthoides, Ferraria crispa var nortieri, Fritillaria ariana, Fritillaria aurea, Fritillaria carica subs serpenticola, Fritillaria ehrhartii, Fritillaria rixii, Fritillaria sewerzowii, Fritillaria stenanthera, Fritillary, Geissorhiza monanthos, Gentiana acaulis, Gladiolus trichonemifolius, Hacquetia epiactis Thor, Ipheion uniflorum Wisley Bluse, Ixia pumilio, Lachenalia latimerae, Lachenalia Rupert, Leucocoryne purpurea, Ophrys lutea subs galilaceae, Pteris cretica wimsettii, Puschkinia scilloides libanocita, RHS, RHS Gardens, RHS Wisley, royal horticultural society, Saxifraga Eulenspiegel (x geuderi), Saxifraga Sancta, Scilla puschkinioides, Surrey, Tropaeulium hookeraianum, Tulipa orphanoidea Flava, Veltheimia bracteata Lemon Flame, Wisley, x Chionoscilla allenii Fra Angelico

Kew Gardens by way of Siberia … The Hive, Alpine House (naturally), a deserted Broadwalk, frigid (but pruned) Rose Garden, a short-back-and-sides to the Grass Borders and a remarkable tree or two –

February 28, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Don’t let all that Thailand stuff lull you into a false sense of security, warmth and vibrant-colourful-duvetness … outside it is Arctic. The crump-crump of snow beneath your boots and the beautiful architecture of trees picked out in white. A lot to admire but even so, bloomin’ cold so it was a quick trot back to the van and home. The Hive, it must be said, was perfect, bereft of other noisome people as it is so seldom is. And […]

Categories: Alpine, Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Fragrant plants, Grasses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Winter Garden • Tags: alpines, bees, Davies Alpine House, Hive, Kew, Palm House, Princess of Wales Conservatory, Rose Garden in winter, Royal Botanic Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, The Hive, Viburnum x bodnantense Charles Lamont

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A few shots from Petersham Nurseries – plants, pots and cats ….

February 22, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Just a little gallery …

Categories: Alpine, annuals, Bedding, container gardening, Exotic, floristry, Fragrant plants, House plants, Indoor gardening, Magnolia, Open to the public, Petersham Nurseries, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Tropical • Tags: Calathea, Calceolaria, Cats, early spring, flowers, houseplants, magnolia, Petersham Nurseries, Poppy, Primroses, Sprintime, The Garden Shop, Tropical plants, Twilight

Taking a peek inside the Alpine House at RHS Wisley – and a scented meander down through the Rock Garden into Seven Acre Wood ….

January 24, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

A little peak inside the Alpine House which sits atop the Rock Garden in the RHS gardens at Wisley (the rose garden is behind, an allée of Bonsai trees to one side and the vegetable garden too, if you need to get your bearings. This is a traditional glasshouse where the plants are mostly displayed in terracotta pots sunk into a brick-sided sand-filled bench, keeping their roots cool and so that these diminutive plants are brought up close, for that […]

Categories: Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bulbs, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, House plants, Iris, Orchids, Plants for a shady garden?, RHS WIsley, shade, Shrubs, Snowdrops (Galanthus), Winter Garden, Wisteria, Woodland Garden • Tags: Agleonema Crete, Alpine House, Alpine plants, Anomatheca viridis, Camellia japonica Hakirakuten, Camellia x williamsii Mary Christian, Christmas Box, Crocus Elegance, Crocus korokowii Golden Nugget, Crocus korolkowii Kiss of Spring, Crocus sieberi George, Cymbidum piccobello mix, daphne, Daphne bholua Jacqueline Postill, Daphne bholua Limpsfield, Daphne Spring Herald, Daubneya aurea Yellow-flowered, Fragrance, Fragrant shrubs, Fritillaria striata, Galanthus elwesii var monostictus, Galanthus Magnet, Galanthus Mrs Backhurst No 12, Galanthus S Arnott, Galanthus valentinei, Gymnospermium albertii, Hellebore Marion White Group, Ipheion dialystemon, Iris, Iris histroides Lady Beatrix Stanley, Iris Katharine Hodgkin, Lachenalia bulbifera, Lachenalis bowkerii, Lachenalis splendida, Lonicera fragrantissima, Lonicera standishii, Monstera Monkey Mask, Muscari neglectum, Narcissus Floral Feast, Ornithagalum lancealatum, Ornithagalum tenuifolium, Phalaenopsis purple botch, Phalaenopsis Yellow, Purple Crocus, RHS Wisley, Rock Garden, royal horticultural society, Sand beds, Sarcococca hookeriana Purple Stem, Sarcococca hookeriana var dignya Purple Stem, scent, Scented Flowers, scented winter flowers, Scoliopus bigelovii, Seven Acre Wood, snowdrops, Winter Box, winter bulbs, Winter colour, winter flowering shrubs, winter fragrance, Winter garden, winter gardening, Winter Honeysuckle, Wisley, Wisley Plant Centre, woodland

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A ‘Meet the Experts Tour’at Kew Gardens – Snowdrops (Galanthophiles Rule OK) – and my first sighting of the newest species in the club, Galanthus trojanus

January 11, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Such a treat, earlier this week, attending one of Kew Gardens’ Meet the Experts Tours. Every Tuesday throughout the year (or probably pretty much), you are delivered into the hands of one of their Experts for a private tour of one aspect of the work going on at Kew. This month they are talking everything snowdrops (it is Carnivorous plants next month – the link is at the end of the blog for further information). Small groups, 15 as a usual […]

Categories: Alpine, Autumn garden, General comment, Open to the public, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Snowdrops (Galanthus), Winter Garden • Tags: 21 species of Galanthus, Aaron Davis, Aaron P Davies, Aaron P Davis, Acis, Alpine Yard, Amyrrillidacea, Crocus sublimis, Cultivating snowdrops, Davies Alpine House, Galanthophile, Galanthus elwesii, Galanthus elwesii monostrictus, Galanthus elwesii Three Leaves, Galanthus elwesii var monostictus, Galanthus elwesii Yvonne Hay, Galanthus gracillis, Galanthus John Grey, Galanthus plicatus Florence Baker, Galanthus plicatus Wendy's Gold, Galanthus trojanus, Galanthus woronowii, galanthus., grwing snowdrops, iris reticulata North Star, Kew, Kew Gardens, Leucojum aestevum, Leucojum vernum, Meet the Experts, Meet the Experts tour Kew, most expensive snowdrop sold, Narcissus hispanicus, Narcissus romieuxii subsp. albidus, new galanthus species, new species of snowdrop, potting medium for snowdrops, Rock Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Snowflake, splitting snowdrops, Superintendent Roack Garden, taxonomy of snowdrops, The Genus Galanthus Aaron P Davis, Tom Freeth

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