Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Almost a perfect mirror, crossing by Teddington Lock this morning. Had to stop and take a picture though Important Business going on at Petersham Nurseries with the arrival of the Christmas trees. They were packed up for us in Warwickshire at about 5am to get to us in time for opening. Busy Busy. But first…
Continue reading ➞ A frosty morning at Petersham Nurseries – and the Christmas Trees arrive …
A real treat to see this installation by Rebecca Louise Law. I'd read an article in the Kew subscribers magazine, and someone had mentioned it to me though I confess it had dropped from my immediate consciousness until yesterday and I veered across the lawns to the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. 375,000 flowers,…
Quite the contrast from the sunshine and blue skies enjoyed just yesterday. Cool, cloudy, a little drizzle and everybody kitted out as if they were about to take on a winters' trek through the Lake District. Still, October it is and Autumn is beginning to tickle the trees in this vast and varied landscape and…
Continue reading ➞ Kew in the Country – an early Autumn tour of Wakehurst Place
A late summer - nearly autumnal - tour of Bordeaux and the hinterland heading past Bergerac into the Dordogne. I'd been last there in 1991, zipping around in an electric blue Peugeot 205 GTI (and one sold recently, not the same special edition even, for £38,000. Not bitter, not a jot). This time around, in…
Continue reading ➞ Teddington Gardener abroad – Eyrignac et ses Jardins in the Dordodgne …
A dazzlingly good day out visiting Penshurst Place, near Tonbridge in Kent. A medieval masterpiece set within 11 acres of walled gardens, much remaining true to their Tudor design. Gobsmacked and flabbergasted am I - already planning a return visit ....
An unexpected bit of free time today and lo! A parking space by the Victoria Gate which meant I had to stop - and (first things first) smell the roses. Gertrude Jekyll, Stanwell Perpetual and Madame Isaac Pereire brought High Summer right back on a mostly overcast mid-November day. Soul food. From the Rose Garden,…
A thorough frost yesterday morning, the first of the year in these balmy parts, and the plants were beautifully rimed in ice. Sunshine too - a perfectly bright chill morning cycling to work, through the avenues behind Ham House. I should have had my camera with me - so much more versatility but the iPod…
Continue reading ➞ A touch of frost …
A trip up to town today to visit the Frieze Art Fair - being held in a series of vast marquees (more than tents, these are buildings!) within Regent's Park - and to see the floral installations created by the very talented team at Petersham Nurseries (and have lunch, let's not forget a very excellent…
Continue reading ➞ Frieze Art Fair, Regent’s Park and Petersham Nurseries in Residence
The Hive at Kew Gardens - and you had to get up quite early to see it as unpopulated - though not all to myself - as this. One photographer already on site (for The Mail? maybe...) was trying to get a 360°panorama by taking several photographs - to be stitched together later - but…
Continue reading ➞ The Hive, mostly, but room here for a few other delights at Kew Gardens …
The Teddington Gardener 