Narcissus Bridal Crown A double creamy white and yellow narcissus with the most intense fragrance. One of the earliest doubles to flower, and perfect for forcing indoors. One vase will scent a whole room. Two vases might be one too many! It is a heady fragrance.
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Winter Sunshine, Hellebores, Iris Katharine Hodgkin, Cymbidiums and farewell to Syon….
Hellebore x ericsmithii Winter Sunshine is a bushy, clump forming hellebore, flowering for a long period in early spring. Creamy white flowers age with green tints through to a mellow pink, and all the colours seem to blend very well together, nothing muddy about the transitions either. Lots of flowers, though again, spaced enough apart…
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After winter, intimations of Spring… Kew Gardens
and finally, the shop - orchid mania due to the extravaganza going on in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
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windowsill + crocus + sunshine =
Crocus Jeanne D'Arc Crocus tricolor
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A little slice of Petersham – and a little announcement
Antique urn with Hellebore Pirouette, Muehlenbeckia and moss.. A new delivery of some very old things! The delicious red-flowering standard camellia is very Alice in Wonderland The cutting border - the bulbs are coming through and I can't wait to see what buried treasure we have here. The border will develop through the year providing…
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All you need is a windowsill…
Crocus and polyanthus, brightening up my windowsills My favourite is the three-toned yellow-white-blue Crocus tricolor, which has come through again despite a regime of benign neglect. The pots were shuffled away last spring to the side of the house and left to their own devices - brought out when the first promise of green began…
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Technicolor dreams…
Just your ordinary crocus, with more than a touch of drama Anemone coronaria - feathery foliage and neon bright flowers - the colours on this photograph have strayed a little from what we photographers like to call 'what they look like', the true pink being a shocking one, but I like the image. I suspect…
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Golden Snowdrops – Galanthus nivalis ‘Sandersii’
Four tough little things, these golden-yellow snowdrops - Galanthus nivalis 'Sandersii' I confess at first I thought these were just a little anaemic but closer inspection proved their yellow markings were just as they should be. Plenty of snowdrop varieties have come through in the Rock Garden at Kew and many deserve a closer look.…
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Crocus at Kew
Low winter sunshine, strafing across the grass borders at Kew - incidentally these were being cut back to tufts of stubble by the gardeners and so I make note to do the same in my gardens soonish too - and illuminating this circle of crocus. I walked all the way around, watching the light highlight,…
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The Teddington Gardener 