Cottage Garden

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

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

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…

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A few things that caught my eye today – Petersham Nurseries – flower therapy and a quote from Cabaret, what more do you need?

Categories Architectural Plants, Bedding, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, Grasses, herbaceous, Hydrangea, late summer border, Open to the public, Petersham Nurseries, plants for roses, Roses, Seasonal colour, Summer garden, White Garden4 Comments on A few things that caught my eye today – Petersham Nurseries – flower therapy and a quote from Cabaret, what more do you need?

Flower therapy, this. From Petersham Nurseries today.  To quote from Cabaret - 'Leave your troubles outside, So- life is disappointing? Forget it! We have no troubles here! Here life is beautiful... ' After this you can go back to Brexit/Conservative Leadership/Chilcot Report/Euro 2016/24HourNews/Emails... 'What good's permitting some prophet of doom To wipe every smile away…

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Roses, like you had to guess … plus some herbaceous beauties. A few things that caught my eye at Petersham Nurseries today –

Categories Alpine, Climbing plants, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, David Austin roses, herbaceous, Petersham Nurseries, plants for roses, RosesLeave a Comment on Roses, like you had to guess … plus some herbaceous beauties. A few things that caught my eye at Petersham Nurseries today –

Well I had my macro lens with me today, hence the kind of images you have here - and plenty of roses to draw the eye (and nose - to take a gorgeous sniff). Not much time but I had to photograph some flowers today after a day photographing a wedding yesterday. Lovely, lively day…

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Creating a cottage garden – and roses of course ….

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Phyllis Bide - the perfect rambling rose for a cottage garden - informal flowers in a muddle of apricot and cream - and not a monster either, like Kiftsgate or Wedding Day... Morning All! I'm contributing to a workshop at Petersham Nurseries today hosted by Amanda Brame, and of course I'm talking about roses. I…

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