Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
The Country Garden at RHS Wisley, a densely planted, enclosed garden, between the double Herbaceous Borders, the Jubilee Rose Gardens, AGM Beds and the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden. Always a favourite part of these extensive gardens, with strong lines formed by rectangular paths and a central round pool - allowing the planting to billow and drape…
Continue reading ➞ RHS Wisley, Country Gardens Style
Hampton Court Palace Gardens A whistle-stop tour of the Palace Gardens at the weekend and really rather glad to have seen them again - it has been too long. Rose gardens, walled gardens, the world's largest vine, parterres and very, very long borders. I think I will have to return for a closer look -…
Continue reading ➞ Hampton Court Palace Gardens – more than just a flower show
A trip to Farnborough Air Show today and while there were no horticultural highlights at all - the machines on display (spanning more than a century of aviation) and the flying/acrobatics in the air were superb. The Breitling Wingwalkers were sensational... http://www.aerosuperbatics.com/ For £399 you can have a go.... Normal Horticultural Services will resume shortly.
Working in my Roehampton Garden today, and in hindsight, I ought to have started at 6am rather than 10am as the mercury began to rise to what, 30°C, more? In any event, a good few hours and some definition brought back to one of the borders, the semi-circular one, which had morphed into a rather…
Continue reading ➞ Hot, Hot, Hot…
Vestra Wealth's Garden (above) http://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-hampton-court-palace-flower-show/exhibitors/Hampton-gardens/vestra-wealths-vista This is a smart, modern garden for a contemporary home. Various levels and layers of planting and hard landscaping surround a dining terrace with a cantilevered cedar table. Gabions are surrounded by copper and packed with split timber, which helps to encourage wildlife. Clipped box lawns are used as alternatives to…
Continue reading ➞ RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – my favourite Show Gardens
above, elements from the Jordans Wildlife Garden http://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-hampton-court-palace-flower-show/exhibitors/Hampton-gardens/jordans-wildlife-garden This garden has been developed to encourage visitors to bring a little bit of the British countryside into their gardens. Inspired by the Hampton Court maze, meadow paths curve through layers of soft naturalistic planting and into a central terrace with a calm, reflective pool. Taller planting…
Continue reading ➞ RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show – a look at The Show Gardens…. Part I
Not the most glamorous of photographs but this was a successful outing yesterday, shopping for pots and plants. This, soon to be polished, wooden planter just about found room in the van and will become the base for a perennial meadow. I found some large copper planters elsewhere, 80cm round and tall, which will find…
Continue reading ➞ A little shopping….
Taxi?! Luton Hoo, in Bedfordshire, has a fascinating history, the family seat of an über-weathly family who lost almost all their fortunes in the credit-crunch of the 1980's. Fabergé eggs once sat casually on side tables! It is now an Elite Hotel, and lovely too, with formal gardens and parkland and nearby, a Land Rover…
The Teddington Gardener 