Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A second gallery from the RHS Shades of Autumn show, a two day event closing yesterday, featuring an inspiring collection of plants and gardening folk... Happy to be reminded of plants out of mind, to find names for those which have eluded me and to see some inspiring planting combinations. Gold Medals all round, say…
Continue reading ➞ Shades of Autumn II
The RHS Shades of Autumn Show at the Horticultural Halls in London - packed full of plants and inspiration and a rather better show than one or two of the more recent events. Bonsai, chrysanthemums, salvias, nerines, dahlias, asters, heucheras, grasses, agapanthus, gladioli, martagon lilies, alpines, succulents - and tradional fruit and vegetables on display…
Continue reading ➞ Shades of Autumn
Viola Citrus (above) with Pansy Citrus (below) Hardy things, violas and pansies, and excellent for injecting some welcome long-term colour into seasonal displays - not that there is much shortage in the garden at the moment, but as the season moves deeper into autumn and on into winter and pigments leach from the landscape, these…
Continue reading ➞ Little and Large (and Orange)
Another outing for this article, originally posted in August, but even more timely now... Locally, the RHS Taste of Autumn Show is on at Wisley from the 16th to 20th October - for more information, follow the link - http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardens/Wisley/What-s-on/Taste-of-Autumn An apple a day... 'Tis the season, almost, of mellow fruitfulness and home-grown fruit has…
Another seasonal photo-montage, (picture, paint, thousand etc.,) from The Savill Garden - actually a series of glorious gardens set within Windsor Great Park, looking particularly fine come Autumn time. All this and the huge parkland surrounding Virginia Water. A fine Day Out. Britain's finest ornamental garden, The Savill Garden is a true wonder. It's a…
Continue reading ➞ Royal Landscapes – The Savill Garden
Napping quietly on Stokesia Klaus Jellito. Sch.....
I can just about get to the front door, after three hours of potting and pottering, pretty much everything has a new winter home... A maintenance day today - bright blue skies, chill, the wicked wind has died down and I've lots of plants to pot up into more suitable containers before the weather really…
If a picture paints a thousand words, there is at least a novella here and so I'll let the photographs do the talking. (These images are 'reverse engineered' from the larger Facebook Album referred to in a recent post - the originals are still hiding in the computer...) These pictures catalogue my September 2011 visit…
Continue reading ➞ Autumn at Great Dixter
A very pretty evergreen perennial, with strap-like leaves and these starry sprays of pale pink flowers. Schizostylis deserves to be much better known for its ability to bloom in autumn and puts on a good show despite worsening weather. The plants resemble small clumps of fragile gladioli with long thin foliage and upright flower-spikes, each…
Continue reading ➞ Sch….. Schizostylis coccinea Jennifer
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