Lady Waterlow - proving to be an early-flowering variety here too (as it is at Petersham Nurseries) at Kew Gardens and with the distinctive loose form, pale colouring, streaked with darker stains. Just beautiful. Here it is climbing up the brick pillars supporting the long, gently curving wooden pergola in the Family Beds garden at…
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An out-and-about gallery with poppy, rose and rock rose
Poppy, rock rose (the pink Cistus), climbing rose Cecile Brunner and a large shrub rose (and I will look up a name for you!) Out-and-about today and just a few pictures this time...
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Lady Waterlow – a perfect rose for a pillar, post or low fence…
A rather beautiful rose in bloom today - as it is in the gardens of Petersham House - but a chance here to study it up close. Large-flowered climber Origin -Nabonnand, 1903 Parentage - 'La France de '89' x 'Mme. Marie Lavalley' Color - Pink & white blend/gold stamens Foliage - Medium green Thorns -…
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Climbers for every occasion (Part 1: Spring and early Summer)
I'm thinking about climbing plants - for use in a myriad ways in the garden and it is a huge topic. Plants for sun and shade, large and small, with the promise of scent and flower in every month of the year. I think I ought to restrict myself to those gems which are in…
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More Wisteria, a Spring Garden and a Fragrant Cat –
I've recently found and photographed some rather grand properties, or at the very least, expensive ones - over which wisteria has been artfully draped. This mid-terrace by Teddington Lock is probably pricey, but it is not palatial. The wisteria however, is quite extravagant. The Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries this morning. You can almost hear…
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Solanum crispum Glasnevin – the beautiful blue potato vine
Solanum crispum 'Glasnevin' I might try this climber, this year, in the space I have cleared in my garden, having removing a large stand of laurel - and let is scramble through the remaining shrubbery. Mine is a north-west facing garden, but one longer boundary, almost entirely obscured by Cotinus, Pyracantha, Lonicera Winter Beauty, ivy,…
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Lilac hues in the glasshouse – Passiflora ‘Amethyst’
Passiflora 'Amethyst'- a tender, vigorous climber suitable for the conservatory. A lilac/lavender cousin of the more usual blue Passiflora caerulea. (P. caerulea is a hardy climber, more or less happy outside whatever the weather) Of Amethyst - this beauty can survive outside, down to 0°C, if the new wood has had time to…
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Spring is springing… the right plants at the right time, this time
Despite the early appearance of poppies - and unexplained red hot pokers in full bloom - Spring is asserting itself with just the right kind of bulbs and blossom - a little photo-gallery so that we can appreciate Nature's Bounty But then what are these things doing in flower right now - a whole clump…
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Rosa mulliganii – roses and the Sissinghurst Technique
Rosa mulliganii, the rose used at the centre of the White Garden at Sissinghurst, threading its way over a filigree pergola. Vigorous, yet delicate and beautiful, a tracery of stems creating windows through into the garden. And (above) here it is in Kew Gardens. A Monster of a Plant.... A huge abundance of bright rose…
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