Category Archives: colour

An East Sussex Odyssey and the jewel in the crown, Great Dixter

April 20, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Well this time I’ll let the pictures do the talking. And I nearly didn’t call in this time around to Great Dixter and am so glad I did. I don’t recall that I have visited in Spring before (it is a stupendous garden in late summer and autumn) and I did attend one of Fergus Garrett’s day course on succession planting and perhaps that was earlier in the year. But Oh My Goodness – what a show there is just […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, Bulbs, colour, conifers, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, Dry Garden, Exotic, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, Fruit Trees, Garden Design, General comment, Great Dixter, herbaceous, Kitchen Garden, Magnolia, Mediterranean Garden, Open to the public, Organic Gardening, Organic pest control, Ornamental trees, Seasonal colour, shade, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Travel broadens the mind, Tropical, Vegetables, Wildlife gardening, Woodland Garden • Tags: East Sussex, Fergus Garrett, Great Dixter

A Grand Day Out – Part 2 – King John’s Nursery and Gardens, East Sussex

April 20, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

A second stop in my East Sussex odyssey, having been to Pashley Manor Gardens and now calling in at this very peaceful nurseries and gardens, King John’s. A quirky nursery and plant centre, with a delightful cafe and a beautiful garden surrounding the adjacent house. A wild orchard garden, large lawns, canal, woodland garden, statuary and quirky features abound. Such a tranquil spot, and the wild garden was an absolute delight, the long grass studded with primroses and fritillary, with […]

Categories: Art in the landscape, colour, Cottage Garden, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, General comment, Open to the public, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Woodland Garden • Tags: East Sussex, King John's Nursery. King John's Nurseries and Gardens

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A Grand Day Out. First stop, Pashley Manor Gardens, East Sussex

April 20, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Such a glorious day to go out exploring and so I headed out to the wilds of East Sussex to take in these gardens at Pashley Manor before heading on to …. King John’s Nursery and Gardens, Merriments and Great Dixter, and ending up making a few purchases at The Old Rose Nursery in Northiam. A few miles and all under a bright blue sky. All prompted by the arrival in Gardener’s World Magazine of the 2 for 1 garden […]

Categories: Art in the landscape, Bulbs, Camellias, Climbing plants, colour, conifers, container gardening, General comment, Magnolia, Open to the public, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Travel broadens the mind, Woodland Garden • Tags: East Sussex, Pashley Manor, Pashley Manor Gardens, Ticehurst, Tunbridge Wells

In the Garden Shop & Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries …

April 15, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Tender, tropical houseplants inside the Garden Shop and elsewhere, early perennials, bulbs, flowering shrubs and spring colour. A few, random, images from Petersham Nurseries last week. We’ve had glorious sunshine (well, yesterday at least), so expecting the Cutting Garden to be even more verdant, more colourful and probably about a foot taller too. We’re about three weeks late compared to 2017 and 2016 but am sure to see a difference after just a couple of warm days. We’re a little […]

Categories: annuals, Auricula, Bedding, Bulbs, Climbing plants, colour, Cutting Garden, David Austin roses, Evergreen shrubs, Exotic, Fragrant plants, House plants, Indoor gardening, macropetala, Petersham Nurseries, Roses, Seasonal colour, Shrubs, spring flowering, Spring Garden • Tags: A Shropshire Lad, Anigozanthus, Aquilegia, auricula, Bulbs, Clematis Avalanche, Clematis macropetala, cowslip, Cutting Garden, Fritillaria persica, Geum, House plants, Medinilla, Nertera, Petersham Nurseries, Pieris, Primula auricula, Primular denticulata, roses, Skimmia, succulents, Tulip, Tulips, wallflowers

Camellias, mostly – a beautifully colourful tour through the woodland landscapes at RHS Wisley

March 28, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Such a beautifully sunny, warm and fragrant afternoon at RHS Wisley. Crowds upon crowds filling the car parks but amongst the meandering paths of Battleston Hill, just a few folk pottering through the woodland paths, admiring the camellias. An amazingly colourful display pretty much at their peak, or just a little over, filling the wooded hillside with rich shades of crimson, pink, cream and white. The magnolias were still tightly budded, save a very few, and the woodland floor was […]

Categories: Camellias, colour, Evergreen shrubs, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, herbaceous, Magnolia, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Plants for a shady garden?, Rhododendron & Azalea, RHS WIsley, Seasonal colour, shade, Shrubs, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Trees, White Garden, Woodland Garden • Tags: Abutilon Marion, Camelia Shugetsu, Camellia, Camellia Aprul Dawn, Camellia Brian ( saluemsis x reticulata), Camellia Doctor Louis Polizzi (reitculata x saluenensis), Camellia Francis Hanger, Camellia Freedom Bell, Camellia Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Camellia Inspiration, Camellia Invitation, Camellia japonic Furo-An, Camellia japonica Alexander Hunter, Camellia japonica Donation, Camellia japonica Guilio Nuccio, Camellia japonica Joe Nuccio, Camellia japonica Lily Pons, Camellia japonica Mercury, Camellia Leonard Messel (reticulata x williamsii), Camellia Les Jury, Camellia Royalty, Camellia williamsii Ballet Queen Variegated, Camellia williamsii Mirage, Camellia x wiliamsii Les jury, Camellia x williamsii, Camellia x williamsii Clarrie Fawcett, Camellia x williamsii Coppelia, Camellia x williamsii Daintiness, Camellia x williamsii Laura Boscawan, Camellia x williamsii Leonara, Camellia x williamsii Muskoka, Daphne bhlua Peter Smthers, Daphne Peter Smithers, Edgeworthia chrysantha, Erythronium dens-canis old Aberdeen, Erythronium tuolumense, Magnolia loebneri Merrill, Magnolia stellata Royal Star, Prunus campanulata Felix Jury, Prunus Euridice, Pulmonaria Blue Ensign, Pulmonaria Coralie, Pulmonaria longifolia Bertram Anderson, Rhododendron grande, Rhododendron strigillosum, RhododendronGolden Oriole Group, shade, Stachyurus chinensis Celina, woodland garden, x williamsii George VBlandford

A Cutting Garden with Tulips in abundance, Fritillaries both imperial & persica, the first Roses, Hawthorn, Camellias, still, cherry blossom, still, spicy Wisteria, chartreuse Euphorbia, a country churchyard and an old deer park – plus a cow or two … tales from Petersham Nurseries

April 14, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

A few images from a day at the Nurseries. I’ve been tweeting and instagramming over the past few days and posted a couple of videos too – they’ll be easy to find from the links on my blog – featuring amongst other things, this vibrant Cutting Garden. They will give you an overview of this long flower-filled border, in the heart of the Nurseries and which is the floral heart of the business, providing cut flowers months on end for […]

Categories: Bulbs, Climbing plants, colour, Cutting Garden, David Austin roses, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, General comment, Petersham Nurseries, Roses, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Wisteria • Tags: Acer palmatum Dissectum, Belted Galloway Cattle, Camassia, Clematis Avalanche, Cutting Garden, Euphorbia Baby Charm, Malus Red Setninel, Parrot Tulips, Petersham Nurseries, Rem's Favourite, Richmond Park, Rosa banksiae, roses, Viburnum, Wisteria

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Spring colour-bombs a riverside Nursery (can you guess which one?)

March 17, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

Flowers inside and out, flowers everywhere – and a few grateful bees to feast on the early Spring bounty. A kaleidoscope of colour, bright, bold, brash and beautiful but we forgive this extravagant generosity – nothing clashes in the garden at this time of year, as the new season unfolds in our gardens. It’s welcome antidote to the damp grey and darker days of winter. There may still be damp and grey days to come, but there is no stopping the […]

Categories: Abstract Photography, Alpine, Architectural Plants, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Fragrant plants, General comment, Petersham Nurseries, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden • Tags: Anemone, armeria., aubretia, Chaenomeles, cowslip, Echeveria, Forget-me-not, Fritillaria Ivory Bells, Fritillaria persica, Gold Lace Group, Iceland Poppy, Indian terracotta, Leucojum, Lilac, Myosotis, Narcissus Ivory Towers, Petersham Nurseries, Polyanthus, Primrose, Primula Silver Lace Group, Pulsatilla, ranunculus, Rosa A Shropshire Lad, Saxifrage, spring, springtime, Strong Beer Primrose, Syrnga, thrift, Thug the Petersham Cat, Tulip, Viola

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Spring things … a medley

March 12, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

If a picture paints a thousand words … read on –

Categories: Abstract Photography, Alpine, Bedding, Bulbs, Camellias, colour, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, herbaceous, Petersham Nurseries, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Woodland Garden • Tags: acacia dealbata, Anemone, Camellia, Chaenomeles, cowslip, Hellebore, Iris unguicularis, lemon, mimosa, mysositis, narcissus, Narcissus Bridal Crown, Narcissus Professor Einstein, Ornithagalum, Poppy, Primula denticulata, prunus cerasifera Pissardii, Pulsatilla, Saxifrage, spring, springtime, Startled Cat, Thug, Thug the Petersham Cat, Tulip, Vinca minor, Wallflower

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A few things that caught my eye today – an early Springtime collage

March 7, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

Just a little colour to mark the sunshiny day we’ve had hereabouts – with these heralds of Spring in all their Technicolor finery. Not an exhaustive gallery, I just caught a few pics at the top and tail of the day, but you get the spirit of the season. I’ll see if I can do more tomorrow, or the day after. Kew, maybe, or further afield. I have a day off this coming Friday. Spring gardens and early season opening. […]

Categories: Alpine, Bedding, colour, container gardening, Cottage Garden, Hellebore, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Woodland Garden • Tags: Anemone blanda, Anemone coronaria, Hellebore Pink Frost, Hellebore Pirouette, Hellebore Tutu, Primrose, Pulmonaria Raspberry Flash, springtime, Tulip, Viburnun x bodantense Charles Lamond

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Technicolor Rainbows in the Alpine House at RHS Wisley

January 15, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

Never disappointing, the Alpine House at RHS Wisley. Particularly colourful in these early months as you can see. Rhubarb-pinks, bright yellows, true blues, glaucous greens, cochineal reds, zebra-striped purples and arctic whites – and packing a punch for such diminutive little stars. And this only January 14th (they were photographed on my visit yesterday morning). Sunk into the sand of the two raised beds, they are regularly changed as new specimens come to their best and so the display is […]

Categories: Alpine, Auricula, Bulbs, colour, Dry Garden, General comment, Open to the public, RHS WIsley • Tags: Alpine, Alpine Garden Society Shows 2017, Alpine House, Armeria pseudoarmeria Ballerina White, Boophone, Bulbinella latifolia subsp latifolia, colour, Crocus laevigatus, Daubenya, Daubenya aurea, Daubenya aurea var coccinea, Daubenya aurea yellow-flowered, Lachenalia bulbifera, Lachenalia reflexa, Lachenalia Romaud, Moraeapolystachya, Narcissus bulbocodium Moulay Brahim, Narcissus bulbocodium subsp praecox var paucinervis, Narcissus Miss Muffit, Narcissus romieuxii, Narcissus tazetta Aleppo, Oxalis versicolor, Primula auricula Blue Yodeler, RHS Wisley, Tecophilaea cyanocrocus, Tecophilia cyanocrocus Violacea, Winter garden

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A return to RHS Wisley – as October arrives with blue skies and the warm gold of an Indian Summer

October 4, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

Roses, to come, but first a gallery of late-flowering perennials, shrubs and trees bringing a rich diversity and vibrancy to these gardens as October sidles into view. The Gardens at RHS Wisley – the Royal Horticultural Society’s flagship garden – never disappoint and even with frequent visits, there is always something new to delight, excite and pique my interest. These first images were taken on a day much like today (though last week) when the skies were a boundless blue […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, Autumn garden, colour, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, plants for roses, RHS WIsley, Seasonal colour, Trees for smaller gardens, Woodland Garden • Tags: alpines, Glasshouses, RHS Wisley, Rock Garden, roses, Seven Acre Wood, Wisley

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Things that caught my eye etc., etc., – and a gourmet tour of the East End (didn’t expect that, did you!)

July 24, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

A day at Petersham Nurseries, working I might add, dispensing horticultural advice and bon-mots to a pretty happy crowd – weather warm but not too warm, a good breeze, plenty of plants to pretty the place up, time to talk to the customers – and keep everything watered – and time to make a few changes, create a few new displays. The seasonal clock has well and truly shifted towards High Summer with our sights on the Autumn finale and […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, Autumn garden, Bedding, Climbing plants, colour, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, Dry Garden, Fragrant plants, General comment, House plants, Hydrangea, late summer border, Organic Gardening, Petersham Nurseries, Roses, Seasonal colour, Summer garden, White Garden • Tags: Agastache, Aladins, Alcea, Alchemilla, Ammi visnagi, Androuet, astrantia, Beigel Bakery, Bishop of Llandaff, bougainvillea, Creme de Cassis, Crocosmia Lucifer, dianthus, Digiplexus, East End, Eating London Tours, Echinacea, Echinops, Helichrysum, High Summer Border, Hydrangea paniculata, Japanese anemone, Jose Aubergine, Late Summer Borders, Laura, Lenny the Pub Cat, Lobelia Compton Pink, Monarda, Old Spitalfields Market, Old Truman Brewery, passion flower, pelargonium, penstemon, Petersham Nurseries, Phlox, Pizza East, poppies, Pride of Spitalfields, Rozanne, rudbeckia, Salvia turkestana, Saponara, Sedum, Shoreditch, St John Bread and Wine, The English Restaurant, Thunbergia Marshamallow, Trachelospermum Star of Toscana, Wollerton Old Hall, Zinnia

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More to delight from RHS Wisley …

May 26, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

Cool hostas for a shady spot; bright – and fragrant – Azaleas to share the limelight and much more besides – perennials and shrubs for sun and shade, a couple of climbers …. A snapshot of late May (the second May Bank Holiday weekend is upon us!) …

Categories: Acid-loving plants, Clematis, Climbing plants, colour, evergreen perennial, Evergreen shrubs, Fragrant plants, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Open to the public, Plants for a shady garden?, Rhododendron & Azalea, RHS WIsley, Seasonal colour, Summer garden

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A few more things ….

April 15, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

A catch-up from a very warm and sunny day at Petersham Nurseries, capturing a few images in my lunch break from the benches and Cutting Garden – and then as I was leaving in the evening, with golden sun strafing across the flowers. One or two images sneaking in from the previous days’ batch and a couple from my own garden.

Categories: Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bulbs, Clematis, climbing plant, Climbing plants, colour, Dry Garden, Flowering Cherry, herbaceous, Ornamental trees, Petersham Nurseries, Roses, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Woodland Garden • Tags: Allium, Aquilegia COlorado, Aquilegia flabella pumila, Clematis, Clematis Avalanche, Clematis flexuosa Purple Stem, Clematis Markham's Pink, Clematis montana Rubens, Corydalis Berry Exciting, Corydalis China Blue, Euphorbia Fireglow, Fritillaria imperialis Maxima Lutea, Fritillaria persica Ivory Bells, Fuji Cherry, Lamprocapnos Valentine, Lewisia Tweedy, Narcissus Bravoure, Narcissus poeticus, Narcissus Westwood, Osteospermum, Primula Elizabeth Killaylee, Prunis incisa Mikinori, Pulmonaria Blue Ensign, Rhodamthemum Tizi-n-tichka, Rosa multiflora Platyphylla, Rosa Seven Sisters, Saxifraga Cloth of Gold, Sedum acre Golden Queen, Sempervivum Rosie, Sempervivum Silberspitz, Sempervivum Silver Jubilee, Thug, Thug the Petersham Cat, Tulip Salmon Dream, Tulip Verona

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A banquet-kaleidoscope-smorgasbord-gallimaufry of early Spring colour and scent … (or Where’s Thug?)

March 16, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

Ah, well, you’ve got me – one huge gallery of images and barely a note to cover the ‘who, what, why, where and when’ of it all – The ‘where’will be at Kew and Wisley and a few points in between, including those deliciously cool crocus on my own front step, delicately rain-dropped and rather perfect. There are woodland walks around Battleston Hill and Seven Acre Wood (those delicious witch hazels in particular) – and the Alpine House (a treasure […]

Categories: Abstract Photograpy, Acid-loving plants, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, Camellias, Climbing plants, colour, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, herbaceous, Japanese Maples (Acers), Magnolia, Ornamental trees, RHS WIsley, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Trees for smaller gardens, White Garden, Wildlife gardening, Winter Garden, Woodland Garden • Tags: Acer griseum, Acer Katsura, Agathis australis, Alpine, Alpine House, Anemone apennina, bark, bedding, Bellis, Berberis lologensis Stapehill, Bulbs, Calla Lily, Camellia Brian, Camellia Doctor Louis Polizzi, Camellia Donation, Camellia Felice Harris, Camellia japnica Mercury, Camellia japonica C M Hovey, Camellia japonica imbricata alba, Camellia Jury's Yellow, Camellia Les Jury, Camellia Milo Rowell, Camellia Royalty, Camellia Satan's RObe, Camellia The Duchess of Cornwall, Camellia x williamsii Innovation, Camellis japonica Jospehine Hearne, Chaenomeles, Cheilanthes argentea, Corydalis Hot Lips, Corylopsis spicata, Coyrdalis, Coyrdalis solida White Swallow, crocus, Crocus minimus, Cyclamen hederifolium, Daphne mezereum, Daphne ordora Mae Jima, Early Spring Colour, Echeveria Afterglow, erica carnea Golden Starlet, Erica carnea March Seedling, Erica carnea Myretoun Ruby, Erica x darlyensis Furzey, Erica x darlyensis Ghost Hills, Erica x darlyensis Margaret Porter, fragrant plants, Fritillaria aurea, Fritillaria bithynica, Fritillaria crassifolia, Fritillaria imperalis Maxima Lutea, Fritillaria meleagris, Gladiolus uyziae, Grevillea johnsonii, hamamelis, Hamamelis Doerak, Hamamelis Gimborne's Perfume, Hamamelis Gingerbread, Hamamelis Harlow Carr, Hamamelis Rubin, Hamamelis Savill Starlight, Hellebore, Hellebore niger, Iceland Poppy, Ilex aquifolium ferox Aurea, Ipheion Fryle Mill, Ipheion uniflorum Charlotte Bishop, Ipheion uniflorum Wisley Blue, Iris japonica, Kew, Lamprocapnos spectabile, Leucojum aestevum, Lonicera purpusii, magnolia, Magnolia Charles Raffill, Magnolia Milky Way, Magnolia stellata, Menton, Moraea loubseri, Muscari latifolium, Narcissus bulbocodium var nivalis, Narcissus Wisley, Nemesia Scented Lady, Ophrys bombyliflora, ornamental trees, Papaver nudicaule, Pelargonium cordifolium, Pelargonium Crocodile, Polyanthus, primula, Primula denticulata, Primula Silver Bouquet, Primula Silver Lace Group, Primula veristar Lemon, Prunus himalaica, Pulmonaria Silver Bouquet, Pulsatilla patens, Rhododendron Airy Fairy, Rhododendron President Roosevelt, RHS Wisley, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Saxifrage bodylilacina Penelope, Saxifrage Touran Red, Saxifrage x bodylli, Scilla grisebachii, Scilla Spring Fragrance, Seasonal colour, Senetti, Skimmia japonica Wakehurst White, Snowflake, Sparaxis elegans, Spring Fragrance, Spring garden, Strelitzia, Tulip Menton, Vanda orchid, Viburnum opulus, Viburnum tinus Lila Rose, Viburnum x bodnantense, Vinca diformis Ruby Walker, Vinca major Maculata, Viola, White Muscari, Wisley, Witch Hazels, Zantesdeschia

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My first look at RHS Wisley (this year) – Colourful winter stems, Alpine and Glasshouse finery and more…

January 14, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

I’m fortunate that the vast array of garden landscapes at RHS Wisley in Surrey are a short drive from Teddington HQ and that I can be as frequent a visitor as I am, without ever, ever being bored – there is always something, whatever the season, to delight and inspire. This unseasonably mild weather (about to properly hit the skids with a decidedly chilly weekend to come) has meant that the Daphne, Camellia, Rhododendron and Witch Hazel have been a […]

Categories: Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bulbs, Camellias, colour, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, Open to the public, Orchids, Ornamental trees, Plants for a shady garden?, RHS WIsley, Seasonal colour, Trees, White Garden, Winter Garden, Wisteria, Woodland Garden • Tags: Abutilon Ashford Red, Acer negundo White Lightening, Aechmae caudata, Alpine House, Alpine plants, Arum creticum, Boophone haemanthoides, Chimonanthus praecox Luteus, Cornus sanguinea Midwinter Fire, Cornus sericea Cardinal, Cornus sericea subsp, Cornus sericea subsp orientalis Sunshine, Crocus korolkowii Kiss of Spring, Crocus sieberi var atticus, Cymbidium Loch of Monteith, Cymbidum Bernard x Buttercup, Dionysia Zdenek Zvolanek, Fritillaria striata, Glasshouse, Gymnospermium albertii, Haemanthus pauculifolius, Hamamelidaceae, Hamamelis mollis Fred Chittenden, Hamamelis x intermedia Harry, Hamamelis x intermedia Robert, Hellebore Terra Nova Doubles, Helleborus argutifolius, Iris histroides Lady Beatrix Stanley, Iris reticulata JS Digt, Lachanalia aloides var quadricolour, Lycaste Leo, Mahonia x wagneri Pinnacle, Masdavallea Joy Edstrom, Massonia pustulata, Muscari macropcarpum, Muscari neglectum, Narcissus albidus subsp orientalis, Oncidium polyadenum, Orchids, Pahiopedalum primulanum, Parrotia persica, Persian Ironwood, Phalaenopsis, Phragmipedium besseae var dallesandroi x besseae Mont Millais, Phragmipedium Jersey, Phragmipedium Quetivel Mill, Phragmipedium schlimii Wilcox, Phragmipedium Sorcerer's Aprentice, Primula Zebra, RHS, RHS Wisley, Rubus biflorus, Rubus cockburnianus, Salix alba Golden Ness, Sempervivium arachnoideum, Wisley, x wilsonaria Gertrude Adams, Zygoneria Adelaide Meadows, Zygoneria Greenways, Zygopetala Warringham Wonder

A Winter Gallery for your delight and delectation …

December 15, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

More from my Twitter account and once again, just the pictures to look at. It’s late and there’s another busy day tomorrow …..

Categories: Abstract Photography, Acid-loving plants, Architectural Plants, Climbing plants, colour, container gardening, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, General comment, Grasses, Hellebore, herbaceous, House plants, Open to the public, Orchids, RHS WIsley, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, Winter Garden • Tags: broussonetia, chrysanthemums, Hellebores, Kew, Malus, ornamental trees, Penstemons on trial, RHS Wisley, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Trial Fields Wisley, winter bark, Winter colour, winter fragrance, Winter garden, winter grasses, winter leaf, winter structure, Wisley

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A Teddington Gardener roundup on twitter – and 11 sleeps ’til Christmas

December 15, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

Here we are and it is nearly Christmas – 11 sleeps to go – and once more I’m apologising for the mean pickings here on Teddington Gardener, though if you have been following me on Twitter or Facebook, my contributions to the sum of all things Internet will seem much more regular, if one photo at a time. Here are some of the images from the past couple of weeks that have fed these accounts – less the pithy 140 […]

Categories: Acid-loving plants, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Camellias, Christmas, colour, evergreen perennial, Evergreen shrubs, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, Hellebore, herbaceous, House plants, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Plants for a shady garden?, RHS WIsley, Seasonal colour, Tropical • Tags: Winter colour, winter flower, winter fragrance, winter gardening, winter leaf

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A few days …. all manner of early autumn herbaceous-ness, roses, dahlias, sunflower, more herbaceous perennials, heuchera and Solenostemon (finishing up with Crinkly Bottom….)

September 2, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

a little late summer turning to autumn herbaceousness for your delight and delectation…. It has been a few days since my last blog entry and I have been busy working, gardening and photographing. A new camera has already improved the picture offering I think, with more natural and realistic colours. With file sizes between 10MG and 20MB the most recent and future photos really ought to be a step up in quality and definition. But to business and a gallery, […]

Categories: Alpine, Architectural Plants, Autumn garden, Climbing plants, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, Dry Garden, Fragrant plants, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, Hydrangea, late summer border, Roses, Seasonal colour, Vegetables, Woodland Garden • Tags: Abelia chinensis, Abutilon Orange Glow, Aconitum Spark's Variety, Actea Brunette, Agastache Blue Fortune, Agastache Summer Glow, Allium seeds, Anemone hupehensis praecox, Arthur Bell, Astelia Silver Spear, Astrantia Star of Billion, Aubergine Ivory, Aurola, Babylon Dahlia, Benjamin Britten, Beschorneria yuccoides, Big Purple Remember Me, Borage, Brilliant Pink Iceberg, Cariad, Ceratostigma plumbaginacea, Chelone obliqua, Coleus, Coleus King, Comtes de Champagne, Conference Pear, Crinkly Bottom, Crocosmia Carmine Brilliant, Crocosmia Emily McKenzie, Crocosmia Fire Jumper, Cycas revoluta, Dahila Marble Ball, Dahlia Cafe au Lait, Dahlia Clearview Sundance, Dahlia Fleuret, Dahlia Happy Days Dahlia Mayo, Dahlia Honka Fragile, Dahlia Honka Rose, Dahlia Hootenanny, Dahlia Karma Fiesta, Dahlia Kilburn Rose, Dahlia Oakwood Bridesmaid, Dahlia Oakwood Naranga, Dahlia Ocean Bird, Dahlia Puebla, Dahlia Starsister Red Yellow, Dahlia Sunset Dahlia Crimson Stripes, Dahlia Tahoma Lady Oh, Dahlia Westerton Folly, Dahlia Westerton Lilian, David Austin Roses, Davidua involucrata, Definately Different, Deschampsia cespitosa Goldtau, Dicksonia antarctica, Double Quick, Eucomis comosa, Fahlia Karma Rose, Fellowship, Fire Fingers, Flower Carpet Scarlet, Flower Carpet White, Friendship, Geranium Rozanne, Golden Smiles, Goldrush, Grace, Green Croton, Greenburst, Hakonechloa macra alboaurea, Happy Retirement, Harlequin Mixed, Helenium Riverton Gem, helianthus annuus, Heuchera Berry Smoothie, Heuchera Binoche, Heuchera Frosted Violet, Heuchera Paris, Heucheralla Green Spice, Heucheralla Honey Rose, Heucherella Solar Eclipse, Heurcher Berry Smoothie, Hibiscus syriacus Diana, Hibiscus syriccusMauve Queen, Holiday, Hydrange paniculata Little Lime, Jade Fingers, Jubilee Celebration, Just Joey, Kent, Kiwi Fern, Leah Tutu, Lemon Aura, Libertia peregrinans, Ligularia Britt Marie Crawford, Liriodendron tulipifera aureomarginatum, Lobelia cardinalis Queen Victoria, Love Knot, Macmilliam Nurse, Muriel Padley, Nigella damascena seeds, Passiflora 'Amethyst', passiflora caerulea, Passiflora White Wedding, Peace, Persicaria amplexicaulis Rosea Succisella inflexa Frosted Pearls, Phlox paniculata Nesperis, Phormium Alison Blackman, Piasca Ruby, Potentilla Monarch's Velvet, Pride of England, Pseudowintera colorata Red Leopard, Queen of Sweden, Raspberry Ripple, Red Dwarf, Red Mars, Rhapsody in Blue, Rosa glauca, Rose Hot Chocolate, Rose Lady Emma Hamilton, Rosemoor, Royal Philharmonic, Royal William, Rudbeckia fulgida var deamii, Salix exigua, Scarlet Ribbons, Sedum Gooseberry Fool, Sedum Herbstfreude, Sedum Purple Emperor, Sedum Red Cauli, Sedum spectabile Brilliant, Skylark, Solenostemon, Sophy's Rose, Spire, Stained Glassworks Series, Sungold, Tabasco, The Cheshire Regiment, Thunbergia Orange, Tickled Pink, Tomato Indigo Rose, Twenty One Gain, Velvet Fragrance, Viburnum plicatum tomentosum Pink Beauty, Wearsider, White Pheasant, Whittonii, Wisley 2008, York Minster

C – for colour, colour and just a little more glorious colour…

August 9, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

A little colour, from the benches of Petersham Nurseries … Below, Alstroemeria Inticacha Sunshine Little Miss Tara and Alstroemeria Little Miss Sophie, Little Miss Emily

Categories: colour, David Austin roses, Petersham Nurseries, Roses • Tags: Agapanthus Phantom, Alstroemeria Intacacha Sunshine, Alstroemeria Little Miss Emily, Alstroemeria Little Miss Sophie, Alstroemeria Little Miss Tara, Boscobel, Crocosmia Harlequin, David Austin, Delphinium, Eden rose, Geranium Havana Blues, Graham Stuart Thomas, Helenium Double Trouble, herbacecous perennials, Kniphofia, Leucanthemum Aglaia, Olivia Rose Austin, Phlox, Pierre de Ronsard, roses, Salvia Royal Bumble, Summer Salmon, summer song, The Poet's Wife, Verbascum, White Passiflora

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A Petersham Nurseries Gallery – a feast of roses & perennials and a closer look at the Cutting Garden

June 28, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

I arrived at Petersham Nurseries 45 minutes earlier than necessary with a view to taking a few pictures – and I am a speedy photographer – so here is a little gallery of plants that are both conveniently for sale or at home in the Cutting Garden (a practical resource for so much of the nurseries’ floristry needs as well as a seed-bed for inspiration). I was not disappointed. After a day of sunshine and rain, and having watered extensively […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, Climbing plants, colour, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Open to the public, Petersham Nurseries, plants for roses, Roses, Seasonal colour, Seeds, Summer garden • Tags: Agapanthus, Ammi majus, Astilbe, Ballerina, Brother Cadfael, Campanula, Cutting Garden, dahlias, David Austin Roses, Delphinium, Digitalis, Digitalis mertonensis, Eryngium, Foxglove, Gentle Hermione, Geum Cocktail Mix, Golden Celebration, Handel, Hemerocallis, herbaceous plants, Hydrangea Annabelle, Hydrangea Pink Annabelle, Iceberg, Jude the Obscure, Lady Emma Hamilton, Melianthis major, perennial plants, Petersham Nurseries, Petunia, Primula viallii, Salvia, Scepter'd Isle, Schoolgirl, Sunflower, Tanacetum, Wollerton Old Hall

Petersham Nurseries at the recent Grow London Garden Fair – a little video

June 27, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

Take a 6m by 6m space, add a rustic chestnut pergola, a wildflower meadow, fragrant roses, annuals, perennials and grasses, herbs, climbers ramblers and vines, tree ferns and a little bedding in there too – the whole contents of a cutting garden with plants for sun and shade but everything speaking of June; an Indian cart, a little terracotta, kokedama, a vase of slow-flowers; hoggin floor, a Balinese cooking pot (lest I forget – and fill it with floating zinnias) […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, Climbing plants, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, David Austin roses, Flower Shows, Fragrant plants, General comment, herbaceous, Organic Gardening, Petersham Nurseries, plants for roses, Roses, Seasonal colour, Summer garden • Tags: Grow London Garden Fair, Petersham Nurseries, School of Garden Inspiration

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Petersham Nurseries at the Grow London Garden Fair – over now but definitely not to be forgotten….

June 22, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

A full planting of annuals, biennials, meadow grasses and wild flowers, bulbs, perennials, roses, climbers and ramblers, herbs and traditional bedding plants – a delicious tumble of colours and fragrances. Petersham Nurseries in miniature, with Indian carts and terracotta, rustic chestnut pergola, hoggin floor, kokedama and edible flowers. A magical garden created for the Grow London Garden Fair on Hampstead Heath but all taken down now. Happily it will live on as a wonderful experience that I was so proud […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Bedding, Bulbs, Climbing plants, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, Flower Shows, Fragrant plants, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, Open to the public, Organic Gardening, Petersham Nurseries, Plants for a shady garden?, plants for roses, Roses, Seasonal colour, Seeds, Summer garden, Vegetables, White Garden, Wildlife gardening • Tags: Grow London, Grow London Garden Fair, Hampstead Heath, Petersham Nurseries

Petersham Nurseries at Grow London Garden Fair – creating a wild and beautifully poised, intensely detailed, naturally exuberant garden – quintessentially, eccentrically Petersham and just about tamed for this eclectic modern garden show…

June 19, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

Thomas Broom, Rosie Bines and Amanda Brame of Petersham Nurseries, who have created this wild Eden, a distillation of Petersham Nurseries for the Grow London Garden Fair on Hampstead Heath, open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. …. as the marquee empties and lights are switched off, the garden waits for the first visitors tomorrow. I’m there on Saturday and Sunday so I’ll put together a few plant lists for this feature garden, more photographs of this and other exciting things […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Climbing plants, colour, Cutting Garden, David Austin roses, Flower Shows, Fragrant plants, Garden Design, General comment, herbaceous, Open to the public, Organic Gardening, Petersham Nurseries, Roses, Seasonal colour, Summer garden, Travel broadens the mind, Wildlife gardening • Tags: Grow London Garden Show, Petersham Nurseries

Colour in the Garden – from Acacia to Zantedeschia

June 14, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

A rather large gallery which was put together with a view to featuring, some of them at least, in talk being given at BBC Gardeners’ World Live this weekend by Nicky Roeber, one-time Garden Designer and who now works for my old firm at Syon Park. I visited the show on Friday but sadly not Saturday or today when the talk was being given in the Gardener’s World Theatre. I hope it went well. The theme of the talk was […]

Categories: colour • Tags: #BBCGWL, #BBCGWLive, BBC Gardeners' World Live, colour in the garden

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Everything I saw at BBC Gardeners’ World Live today ….

June 12, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

Voila! All my photos from the show in one gallery – I’ve had a lovely day but with several hours travel up and down the M40 and sat sitting on the M25… well here are my pictures and I’m going out for some dinner now….. There is, I grant, a little sorting through, grouping, annotating and further editing of this mega-gallery of photographs from my visit today to BBC Gardeners’ World Live at the NEC in Birmingham and I’ll get […]

Categories: Acid-loving plants, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, Clematis, Climbing plants, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, evergreen perennial, Flower Shows, Fragrant plants, Garden Design, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, House plants, Hydrangea, Indoor gardening, Japanese Maples (Acers), Kitchen Garden, Mediterranean Garden, Orchids, Plants for a shady garden?, plants for roses, Rhododendron & Azalea, Roses, Seasonal colour, Seeds, Shrubs, Spring Garden, Summer garden, Travel broadens the mind, Tropical, White Garden, Wildlife gardening • Tags: #BBCGWL, BBC Gardeners' World Live, Floral Marquee, Gardener's World, NEC, Show Gardens

You say Peony, I say Paeonia – whichever you prefer, there’s a wealth of choice and colour at Kew Gardens

May 13, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

At the head of the Family Border and the long, gently curving rose pergola, with the Temple of Aeolus on the mount behind, is the peony border, and though it is early in the season, some have already gone over, while much has yet to even get started. Others are just about right and these are some of them… I like the big and blowsy as much as the next person, but the cream Globe of Light was understated and […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, colour, herbaceous, Open to the public, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew • Tags: auricula, Cistus, Cistus Snow Fire, Iris Red Zinger, Kew, Kew Gardens, paeonia, Paeonia Claire de Lune, Paeonia Globe of Light, Paeonia rockii, Paeonia rockii subs atrava, Paeonia veitchii, Paeonia x smouthii, peony, Primula auricula, Rhododendron Cynthia, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Temple of Aeolus

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare…. Petersham Meadows

May 8, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

A field of buttercups in the deep depth of the countryside? A bucolic scene where black & white cattle graze the long grass and rub their rumps on wild plum and ancient hawthorn? Petersham Meadows, actually, and the cattle are the Belted Galloways that are taking their summer holidays from the main herd at Box Hill in Surrey. Richmond is a short walk along the Thames towpath for any amount of retail therapy and traffic fumes – and the hurly-burly […]

Categories: Abstract Photography, colour, spring flowering, Wildlife gardening • Tags: Belted Galloway Cattle, Buttercups, National Trust, Petersham Meadows

Flowers for a Friday….

May 8, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

I hope that Thomas Bloom won’t mind my hijacking these floral displays for my own delight and edification – and yours – but I am very taken with them. Keen-eyed viewers will have seen some of the individual items in my photo-reports from recent trips to Wisley and Kew and indeed, these flowers are all British-grown and freshly seasonal. Perhaps one reason why – though diverse forms, shapes, subtle but contrasting colours even – they are such happy and complimentary […]

Categories: colour, Cutting Garden, Flower Shows, General comment, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden • Tags: British grown, floristry, hedgerow, Larkspur, Nectoscordum, Queen Anne's Lace, Scilla, Solomon's Seal, Stocks, Thomas Bloom, Tulips, Viburnum burkwoodii, Viburnum carlesii, white broom, woodland plants

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A kaleidoscope of colour, coming to a garden near you…

March 17, 2015 by The Teddington Gardener

So much colour exploding in our gardens now that winter is loosening its grip and Spring is given a chance – longer days, some sunshine but still chill nights and cool temperatures yet … the sap is rising, buds are bursting into leaf and blossom and the woodland floor is a bright mosaic of primroses, crocus, hellebores, narcissus, anemones, pulmonarias and more. OK not tulips just yet – this is a touch of artistic license provided by Covent Garden Flower […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Kitchen Garden, Magnolia, Petersham Nurseries, Plants for a shady garden?, Seasonal colour, Seeds, spring flowering, Spring Garden • Tags: Anemone blanda, Anemone de Caen, Aquilegia, Campanula, Chaenomeles, French lavender, Fritillaria meleagris, Hardeenbergia Candy Wrapper, Hellebore Double White Spotted, Hydrangea, lavender, Lavender stoechas, lavened, Leucojum aestevum, Magnolia stellata, narcissus, Petersham Nurseries, Primrose, Primula veris, propagation, Pulmonaria Blue Ensign, ranunculus, Scented pelargoniums, Sweet Peas, Tree Ferns, Tulips

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