Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A day in town, visiting the Royal Horticultural Society Orchid Show at the Horticultural Halls by Vincent Square. Me and rather a lot of other folk - this was by far the busiest I have ever seen one of these London shows and speaks to the quality, calibre and quantity of exhibitors with their amazing…
Continue reading ➞ THe RHS London Orchid Show – 6th April 2018
Well I hadn't taken any photographs today, so sitting in my conservatory this evening, my thoughts turned to the collection of houseplants I share the space with - in this one room there are plenty of cactus - in a porcelain clamshell, a little catus garden and also my favourite white-studded Opuntia microdasys alba -…
Continue reading ➞ At home with a few house plants …
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…
The Florist's Bench was crammed full to bursting with Spring loveliness - too good not to share! A kaleidoscope of colour, matched by fresh greens - magical. Credit to Abi Cooke.
Always a Springtime treat, the Alpine House and especially my local, at the RHS gardens at Wisley. Add in some glorious sunshine and these technicolor beauties really sing. I shared my time inside the Glasshouse with a raucous group of children tasked with drawing some of the specimens on show. All seem delighted with the…
Continue reading ➞ An Alpine Springtime … more technicolor dreams from RHS Wisley
Having spent rather a lot of time indoors these past few days, (understandably I wasn't outside very much with the outdoor plants at Petersham Nurseries, what with it being Arctic here in the UK). Well I don't feel too hard done by - The Garden Shop is a beautiful, colourful and fragrant space full of…
Continue reading ➞ A Garden Shop …. (with updated gallery)
I travelled up to Newcastle-upon-Tyne this past few days to say a final goodbye to a good friend, Jean Southwell, whom I have known for nigh on 30 years and a woman who has been an inspiration and joy to me. And someone who taught a great appreciation for gin, it must me added. She…
Continue reading ➞ Jean Southwell and the Gertrude Jekyll Gardens at Lindisfarne
Well the connection is simply that I had been at the RHS Early Spring Show in Pimlico and had been wandering back to to Waterloo to catch a train home - and passed by the South Bank Centre and the newly refurbished Hayward Gallery - and hence passing an exhibition I had wanted to see…
Just a few more Hellebores, and one Camellia, and just because ...
The Teddington Gardener 