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Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – April 2014 – RHS London Show, Kew Gardens, Ightham Mote, Knole, Emmetts Garden & Petersham Nurseries. Spring in full spate.

Categories Abstract Photography, Acid-loving plants, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Auricula, Bedding, Bulbs, Camellias, Clematis, Climbing plants, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Flower Shows, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, General comment, Magnolia, my projects, National Trust Gardens, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Petersham Nurseries, Rhododendron & Azalea, RHS WIsley, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Trees, Trees for smaller gardensLeave a Comment on Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – April 2014 – RHS London Show, Kew Gardens, Ightham Mote, Knole, Emmetts Garden & Petersham Nurseries. Spring in full spate.

  A colourful progression through the month, featuring Wisley, Igtham Mote, Knole, Petersham Nurseries, RHS London Show, Kew Gardens, my own projects featuring Spring Bulbs and new planting..... Flowering Cherries, Crab Apples, massed Tulips, Rhododendrons and Azaleas, Bluebells, Auriculas.... a gorgeous month.

Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – March 2014 – Kew and Wisley, The Savill Garden and Petersham Nurseries. Spring advances.

Categories Acid-loving plants, Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Auricula, Bedding, Bulbs, Camellias, Clematis, Climbing plants, container gardening, Cutting Garden, dark foliage plants, Evergreen shrubs, Fragrant plants, Hellebore, herbaceous, Lawn Care, Magnolia, my projects, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Petersham Nurseries, Rhododendron & Azalea, RHS WIsley, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Savill Garden, spring flowering, Spring Garden, The Savill Garden, Trees for smaller gardensLeave a Comment on Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – March 2014 – Kew and Wisley, The Savill Garden and Petersham Nurseries. Spring advances.

My first March visit to Kew Gardens A purchase of a very brilliant little machine - scarifying and aerating the lawn with ease... My first March visit to Kew Gardens - taking in the Pagoda, Chokushi-mon Japanese Landscape, the Xstrata and some of the arboretum. My first week at Petersham Nurseries, at the beginning of…

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Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – January 2014 – at Wisley and Kew. Winter breaks early.

Categories Abstract Photography, Alpine, Architectural Plants, container gardening, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, Hydrangea, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Rhododendron & Azalea, RHS WIsley, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, Snowdrops (Galanthus), Trees for smaller gardens, Wildlife gardening, Winter Garden1 Comment on Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – January 2014 – at Wisley and Kew. Winter breaks early.

JANUARY - Hamamelis x intermedia Orange Peel Cornus alba Sibirica in container displays at Wisley Rhododendron nobleanum Album Prunus himalaica Hydrangea paniculata Galanthus elwesii Sarcococca confusa Dogwoods at Kew and the Alpine House from the Grass Borders Galanthus elwesii at Kew and Berberis (below) Chimonathus praecox Grandiflorus Prunus subhirtella Autumnalis and Chaenomeles speciosa at the…

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Orange, scarlet, blue and shocking pink – Christmas in Technocolor

Categories Abstract Photography, Architectural Plants, Bulbs, Christmas, container gardening, Fragrant plants, General comment, House plants, Petersham Nurseries, Winter GardenLeave a Comment on Orange, scarlet, blue and shocking pink – Christmas in Technocolor

A little technicolor dreaming, an antidote to a wholly white Christmas - intimations of spring too - tulips and hyacinths flowering outdoor next April/May, as cut flowers, we can enjoy them now - the anemones and Amaryllis too - while Orchids are available year round. Clementines, limes and lemons - just as colourful and a…

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I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas… Hellebores, Tulips, Amaryllis, Anemones, Narcissus, Moth Orchids, Jasmine…

Categories Abstract Photograpy, Christmas, Climbing plants, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Fragrant plants, Hellebore, House plants, Indoor gardening, Petersham Nurseries1 Comment on I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas… Hellebores, Tulips, Amaryllis, Anemones, Narcissus, Moth Orchids, Jasmine…

Plenty of choice here if you are looking to furnish your home and compliment a winter garden with white-flowering lovelies - tulips of course will be flowering outside next Spring but here is a taster of things to come. Paperwhite narcissus are properly in bloom now and fragrant they are too - next Spring look…

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Cobaea scandens – the cup and saucer vine with an eye on world domination

Categories Autumn garden, climbing plant, Climbing plants, container gardening, Fragrant plants, Petersham Nurseries, Roses, Seasonal colourLeave a Comment on Cobaea scandens – the cup and saucer vine with an eye on world domination

Cobaea scandens - the cup and saucer vine - is more commonly found with creamy-green-to-rich purple-fading-to-pale-lavender flowers though also in a ghostly white. Tender here in the UK, it is grown as an annual though these examples, in the Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries, survived through the mild and wet winter and continued to grow…

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I put a spell on you: Colourful cyclamen and a little foray into witchcraft

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A relation to the popular houseplant, Cyclamen persica, these outdoor bedding cyclamen will add a splash of colour to seasonal containers for weeks to come. And in sheltered locations where frosts are absent - or rare at least as in many city gardens they are - will flower for months. Water carefully, deadhead regularly and…

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Ideas for Autumn container displays – our native heather and something from the South African Cape

Categories Acid-loving plants, Autumn garden, container gardening, General commentLeave a Comment on Ideas for Autumn container displays – our native heather and something from the South African Cape

Pale and interesting - Calluna vulgaris in shades of pale pinks, white and cream. Specimens such as these offer Ideal planting for window boxes and containers providing a long period of interest, alone or partnered with trailing ivy for contrast, baby skimmia rubella, the soon-to-be everywhere cyclamen, violas and pansies, black grasses (Ophiopogon) and heucheras,…

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Exciting Redhead seeks dynamic partner for fun and friendship, maybe more?

Categories container gardening, Grasses, late summer border, Mediterranean GardenLeave a Comment on Exciting Redhead seeks dynamic partner for fun and friendship, maybe more?

Royal Bumble is a shrubby salvia with intense, dimunitive, cherry-red flowers and fragrant leaves, flowering from August through to the frosts, and teamed up here with the fine feathery stems of the grass Stipa tenuissima - wonderful, wispy, pale yellow-green leaves topped with fluffy plumes of silver-green flowers, maturing to blonde-buff. This versatile deciduous grass…

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