Category Archives: colour

A very colourful April, this year, at Petersham Nurseries – springtime bulbs pretty much everywhere …

September 27, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

A few images from April 2018 featuring the Cutting Garden and Petersham House Gardens and more specifically the bulbs planted in great parallel swathes in the working Cutting Garden and then more expansively throughout the gardens of the House itself. A memory-jogger for me, given my workshop on Spring Bulbs together but boy, has it got me in the mood for some springtime inspiration. I shall have to see if I can find the plan laid out by Head Gardener […]

Categories: Alpine, annuals, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, colour, container gardening, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, Organic Gardening, Petersham Nurseries, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden • Tags: colour, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, dpring colour, fritillaria imperialis, Fritillaria persica, kitchen garden, Petersham House Gardens, Petersham Nurseries, spring bulbs, Tulips

April at Great Dixter, reprise, for a spring-flowering extravaganza and a lot of inspiration

September 27, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

These images were taken on a visit on the 20th April this year to the gardens at Great Dixter in East Sussex. I had been to the charming and gently planted King John’s Nursery beforehand, and there is some memorable naturalizing of spring bulbs and primroses in the old orchard that is quite superlative. But for bangs for your buck, Great Dixter delivers. Known for a triumphant fanfare in High Summer and on into late Autumn, I had never been […]

Categories: annuals, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, colour, container gardening, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, Fragrant plants, Garden Design, Great Dixter, herbaceous, Open to the public, Organic Gardening, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden • Tags: Bulbs, bulbs in containers, Companion planting, container displays, Fergus garret, Great Dixter, kaleidoscope, spring, Tulips

A late-September taste of the gardens at RHS Wisley

September 26, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

A mid-week, late morning, late September tour of the RHS Gardens at Wisley. Blue skies peppered liberally with white clouds (today was a brighter, warmer clearer-skies day than yesterday, but probably overbright for my photographic skills so here we are …) It is still quite definitely late summer, rather than full-on Autumn. Very few of the trees were in their stained-glass garb of gold, ruby and russet, though the Liquidamber Lane Roberts was putting on a little show with much […]

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Purple

September 6, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

May I refer you to Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple Sometimes more blue, or lilac, lavender, rose, red, but a not pure blue, or pink depending on which is closest, a varied palette – cool, rich, and elegant tones. Thug, the Petersham Cat, rounding up proceedings. I rest my case …

Categories: Abstract Photograpy, Alpine, annuals, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, Clematis, Climbing plants, colour, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, Exotic, General comment, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Iris, late summer border • Tags: purple

Green

August 30, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Well I thought I had created a monster gallery of pink, but it turns out that Green really has the stage. Again, all photographs from 2015, and pretty much everyone has the name of the plant embedded in the data. Very organised I was then, and how many photos, especially in July, August and September! I shall have to go back through my blog posts to see exactly where I was. The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens for certain, Kew, Wisley […]

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Pink

August 29, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Pink, by far the biggest gallery with more photos to choose from than with the others, orange, yellow, blue and white. All images taken in 2015, though concentrating on the summer and through until September. I had to stop somewhere. Hellebores early on, and a little Cherry blossom, though i could have majored on that alone. Perennials and Roses throughout the summer, with some pinked foliage, and Dahlias of course, with Sedums proving remarkably persistent too. Asters, Anemones, Campanulas, […]

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Blue

August 27, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

OK, so there is a touch of rose-making-the-blue-purple going on here too though I have weeded out the more obvious not-blues, but the theme, from palest to the boldest, with some blue-grey foliage too, is a cool blue palette. Fruit, leaf and flower all contribute and I refer you once again to Gertrude Jekyll. In fact I think I shall transcribe a little of it, to give you a taste! …well, for another time. I’ll Tweet and Instagram instead.

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Yellow

August 27, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

From the palest blush, soft cool primrose, sulphurous, acid, gaudy, bright, golden, and adorning the garden right the way through the year – this is a richly diverse palette and can be used to many an effect. I’ve been reading Gertrude Jekyll’s book on colour schemes in the flower garden and she is extraordinarily precise, intuitive, inventive, when describing both flower and foliage and combining them in the border. Can’t recommend it enough – I should add in some […]

Categories: Abstract Photography, Alpine, annuals, Architectural Plants, Auricula, Autumn garden, Bedding, Bulbs, colour, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, Dry Garden, Evergreen shrubs, Fragrant plants, Garden Design, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, Japanese Maples (Acers), late summer border, Ornamental trees, Roses, Seasonal colour, shade, Shrubs, Snowdrops (Galanthus), spring flowering, Spring Garden, Summer garden • Tags: Yellow