Category Archives: David Austin roses

A Petersham Nurseries Gallery – one the eve of opening in the heart of Covent Garden, a few images from the source of its inspiration …

July 30, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

Puddles, Dahlias, among many more colourful floral delights, cats and sparkly things … everything you might expect from Petersham Nurseries – and you can enjoy of all of these things (cats excepted) from tomorrow when they open in Covent Garden tomorrow (King Street/Floral Street). Can’t wait to see the new store myself next week. Business as usual by the water meadows in Richmond of course – I hope this gallery gives you a taste of what’s on offer and the […]

Categories: Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, herbaceous, House plants, Hydrangea, Indoor gardening, late summer border, Open to the public, Organic Gardening, Petersham Nurseries, Plants for a shady garden?, plants for roses, Roses, Seasonal colour, Summer garden, White Garden • Tags: Covent Garden, Petersham Nurseries, Richmond

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Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – A Gallery

July 4, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

One large gallery for the whole of my visit at the Hampton Court Flower Show 2017 – so much to see, so much to admire, so much to appreciate and learn. All in one huge gallery of images from the moment I stepped into the Show to my exit several hours later. Show Gardens and Floral Marquees, Roses and Carol Klein in there too … Too much to highlight individually – for those with the stamina, enjoy the show!

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David Austin Roses HQ at Albrighton – a study trip from Petersham Nurseries

July 2, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

My esteemed colleagues from Petersham Nurseries, Noriko and Deborah from the Green Team and Andrea from Visual Merchandising (green) – joined me – and drove yesterday together for a couple of hours up (and down) the M40/M6/M42/M54 to David Austin HQ and their impressive 2-acre rose gardens in Albrighton, Shropshire to see how they grow roses – and they grow an impressive selection of old roses, wild roses and their eponymous English Roses in a series of beautiful gardens […]

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A few things that caught my eye today – a little tour of Petersham Nurseries on the longest Day of the Year

June 21, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

No captions this time – far too hot to be bothering with detail like that I’d say – but a few images from a post-lunch ten minute trot through the Nurseries, the Cutting Garden and plant benches. All quite colourful I think you’ll agree (and of course, I can take a lot of pictures in ten minutes…) Bakingly hot of course today, another day well into the 30s, but set to cool a little tomorrow and in the days ahead. […]

Categories: Cutting Garden, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, General comment, late summer border, Open to the public, Petersham Nurseries, Seasonal colour, Summer garden • Tags: Petersham Nurseries

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Postcards from Shropshire – Part 6 and a final look at David Austin Roses (including roses in containers)

June 15, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

The Patio Garden Our patio garden features English specimen roses in a variety of large, decorative terracotta planters. English Roses, with their gracefully rounded, shrubby growth, are ideal for growing in this way. They bring character and interest to the gravelled area around the Plant Centre and their beautiful, deliciously fragrant flowers can be easily enjoyed at close quarters. A final roundup from my brief visit to David Austin Roses in Albrighton – believe me I could have spent […]

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Postcards from Shropshire – Chapter 5 from David Austin Roses – The Lion Garden

June 14, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

The Lion Garden The Lion Garden has been redesigned and the sculpture moved to create a focal point. Four long borders mingle shrub roses, including many English Roses, with herbaceous perennials, creating a wonderful contrast of colour, form, texture and scent. The borders are punctuated by magnificent standard roses, which add height and structure to the garden. Perennials, climbers, arches, standard roses, crisp lawns and a bright blue sky. Keen viewers will notice I did step away from this garden […]

Categories: David Austin roses, General comment, Open to the public, Roses • Tags: Albrighton, David Austin Roses, Lion Garden, roses

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Postcards from Shropshire – a fourth helping from David Austin Roses (stay with me folks…)

June 14, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

The Renaissance Garden The National Collection of English Roses is held in the gardens at Albrighton. The Renaissance Garden is perhaps the most beautiful of all the gardens, and is devoted to English Roses. These roses start flowering in late May and continue right through to the frosts of early winter. This lovely garden demonstrates the great versatility of the English Roses, with their wide range of flowers and fragrances, habits and sizes. The adjoining pergola too with a view […]

Categories: David Austin roses, General comment, Open to the public, Roses • Tags: Albrighton, David Austin Roses, roses

Postcards from Shropshire – third helpings from David Austin Roses

June 13, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

A return through the Long Garden – the unusual feature of these photographs is of course the sunshine and blue skies – the Divine smiling on these roses and me, a humble if enthusiastically photographing acolyte … The Long Garden The Long Garden forms the central core of the rose garden, with the other gardens leading from it. It contains our collection of old roses, which generally flower once in early summer. The Long Garden also includes modern shrub roses and […]

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Postcards from Shropshire – Seconds from David Austin Roses

June 13, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

Like I said, an Inventory … The Victorian Walled Garden The Victorian Walled Garden is a formal garden made up of three circular borders, which diminish in width towards the centre. They are planted with English Roses and other repeat-flowering shrub roses. The focal point of the garden is the large central stone carving. Visitors can also admire the natural beauty of the English Climbers and Ramblers trained over arches, arbours and along the eight foot wall which encircles the garden. […]

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Postcards from Shropshire – a first gallery from David Austin Roses at Albrighton

June 12, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

A first look at the Long Garden, mostly, at the eponymous gardens at Albrighton – just a short drive from our base near Shrewsbury and a beautiful, inspirational stop-over on our way to Woodstock. I realised of course today that I have effectively inventories the gardens, as I might once have done to a flat or house – in my previous incarnation as a Letting Agent – expansive view, closer, close-up – repeat. These then are galleries for the rose-geek, […]

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A Cutting Garden, Roses and Perennial Fireworks at Petersham Nurseries …..

May 24, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

A snapshot from Petersham Nurseries this week ….

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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 […]

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New from David Austin Roses in 2017 … introducing Dame Judi Dench, Vanessa Bell and James L. Austin

February 26, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

David Austin Roses, one of Britain’s great rose breeders, will launch three new varieties for 2017. Here’s a sneak preview with grateful thanks to http://www.gardenandgreen.co.uk for the heads up … (A quick internet search hasn’t thrown this up anywhere else as yet, but trusting this is indeed a reliable source!) DAME JUDI DENCH – English Musk Hybrid A beautiful rose; the blooms are a particularly rich shade of apricot, paling prettily towards the edges, lending a certain radiance. Beginning as […]

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Rose Care, Maintenance and Pruning

October 21, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

Thank you to everyone that came to the workshop yesterday at Petersham Nurseries, where we looked rose care, planting, general maintenance and crucially pruning and I hope our time together and the notes I left with you will be useful. I enjoyed the brief tour through the Cutting Garden and Kitchen Garden though not everybody I know was able to stay for this part of the workshop. The links below will give you more of a sense of what is […]

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A round up of the week so far – mist over the Thames, oak-leaved Hydrangeas, Chillis, Lilies, Vines viniferous and Cup-and-Saucered, Dahlias of course ….

October 13, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

A few days at Petersham Nurseries this week and with it, a cycle ride across Teddington Lock in the morning sunshine, ahead of days enjoying a rather fine Indian Summer as Autumn slides into technicolor view – with mist rising from the River Thames and adding a little mystery to Ham Fields While the cycle ride home … and if you put them together … (someone has found a new editing toy!) The days have been bright and warm, with […]

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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 […]

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The Autumn Equinox – And to celebrate, a little tour of RHS Wisley

September 22, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

Rosa Florentina, in the Jubilee Rose Garden at RHS Wisley – this may be the autumn equinox but the roses aren’t letting go of summer just yet. A little time since my last post but in my defence, I have had a holiday – a delicious time in Barcelona, if you must know – so it’s been all ‘Moderniste architecture this & Gaudi that’ for the past couple of weeks but now I’m back, as the song has it. To […]

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Your garden in August – a few thoughts …

August 19, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

August has already given us some glorious sunshine and plenty of beautifully warm days – and while there may be a little rain (OK, a lot of rain coming) – this is a combination that our plants will absolutely love. True, the evenings are that little bit shorter now and this signals a change in gear for our gardens. I don’t mean a gentle slide down into Autumn, rather an expectation for a late great, fantastic finish to the year! […]

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Follow me as I tour the gardens at RHS Wisley – grasses and bananas, the Glasshouse (tropics and desert) and dry borders, fruit fields and a fragrant rose garden …

August 18, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

You’ve walked with me from the entrance at RHS Wisley through to the grass borders, across to the tropical border with towering bananas and cannas and past the dogwood collection (with willows and rubus) which are green green green at the moment but in winter are a forest of ruby, gold, scarlet, black and bone white stems. Around the lake, we reach the Glasshouse. In the glasshouse, a superb display of Fuchsias and Begonias as well as the expected tropical […]

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An Afternoon at RHS Wisley – the Double Herbaceous Borders, Cottage and Jubilee Rose Gardens, a touch of woodland and more …

July 27, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

The spectacle of the Double Herbaceous Borders at RHS Wisley at the height of summer! I definitely have Border Envy though I appreciate how much work goes into this long-lasting display. Such healthy happy plants too. The Country Garden, pictured below is no less of an extravaganza but the effect in many parts is of a beautiful soft gauzy floatiness … well, you can see for yourself – The Jubilee Rose Garden, like the Cottage Garden, sits behind the Double […]

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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 […]

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Another peak at Petersham Nurseries …

July 12, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

A montage of a few pictures I took on Sunday at Petersham Nurseries – the display carts I’d refreshed and ‘replanted’ as well as the perennial and rose benches. The tangerine, apricot and gold blooms on the last few standards of rose Lady Emma Hamilton still make me swoon with their fragrance of ripe peach, mango, citrus and sweet wines…. My last blog featured many of the individual perennials, roses and plant life throughout the Nurseries, and in the Cutting […]

Categories: David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, herbaceous, Petersham Nurseries, Roses • Tags: Petersham Nurseries

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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?

July 7, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

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 Life is a cabaret, old chum So come to the cabaret’

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A Riot of Roses at David Austin HQ – An Access All Areas Tour of the Gardens, Glasshouses, Breeding Program, Trial Fields …

July 1, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

The Gardens at David Austin Roses, Albrigton, Shropshire They may have been battered by the rains but how beautiful are these gardens still! A veritable riot of colour, in beds and borders, along paths and clothing walls and clambering up and over pillars. Every conceivable space is festooned. Walls have climbers and ramblers flowering from bottom to top; pillars have roses wrapped around them like Maypoles and overhead the show continues. The Lion Garden has a mix of perennials and […]

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A refresher first – and later this week, a return to the remarkable rose gardens at David Austin, Albrighton

June 29, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

2 acres of paradise? david austin roses at their albrighton nursery & gardens – the best display in years methinks! This comment and these photos were from June last year – one of the hottest days of the year but following a decidedly cool Spring. I’m preparing to head back there this Thursday to see what the chill spring and decidedly wet summer that we’ve been enjoying ‘down South’ has done to their eponymous gardens in Shropshire. The Long Garden, Lion […]

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While I’m putting the finishing touches to my Ark, a few roses to delight and some thoughts on fragrance …

June 23, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

Après nous, le deluge – part political statement, given the referendum today (and a potentially very glum statement too) and a reference to the storms, heavenly waterfalls and flashing light-shows last night. To calm my shattered nerves, a gallery of roses, photographs taken yesterday at Petersham Nurseries, in a rare few hours of ‘dry’ (look it up!) – we’d primped and tidied, deadheaded and cleaned up all of the roses (and all of the herbaceous perennials the day before/no wonder […]

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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 –

June 19, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

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 and a great couple, but had to get some roses onto the SD card – and it wasn’t raining (the first time in a long […]

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I’m singing in the rain/ Just singing in the rain/ What a glorious feelin’ I’m happy again/ I’m laughing at clouds/ So dark up above/ The sun’s in my heart/ And I’m ready for … roses, dahlias, beautiful perennials

June 12, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

Enough rain today to satisfy Dr Foster, on his way to Gloucester – but here at Petersham, it made some rather beautiful plants even more beautiful – roses of course, the first of the dahlias (and my apologies for not noting their names – next time I’ll look at the Cutting Garden Plan), and a host of other lovelies from the banks of herbaceous perennials. A pretty gallery, little more to add … Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo… I’m singing in […]

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Roses all the way – a veritable photographic encyclopedia of these beauties … (Part One)

June 9, 2016 by The Teddington Gardener

Between the rain showers yesterday, a tour around the two rose gardens at RHS Wisley – these are all from the first, the Jubilee Rose Garden, which features roses planted among roses and more roses (no herbaceous planting here, not allowed at all). The next gallery will feature the planting in the Bowes Lyon Rose Garden – roses with perennials, grasses and shrubs – and will subject you to I don’t know how many more roses … Exhortations required to […]

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