Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
I was asked recently where the name for this colourful and superbly-silky-soapy-flower came from and had to look it up. I had assumed the tag 'californica' at least gave a clue as to its heritage and it is in fact native to America and Mexico and is the State Flower of California. The display, above,…
Continue reading ➞ Eschscholzia californica – vivid flowers with a nuclear connection…
More research for a talk later this week and the room here at TG Central is strewn with rose books - thirty of them? Forty? What to include, what to leave out - heading off into all manner of topics and side-alleys and bookmarking pieces to read when I have more leisure.. (when, exactly?) And then…
Continue reading ➞ “I love snorting Roses” – Michael Marriott, Roses & David Austin
A gallery of roses photographed over the last couple of days. Rose season has started! It's roses all the way for me this week - well for the season now if I'm honest - and I'm collecting information and articles on a whole range of rose-related topics. The notes which follow cover a whole range…
Continue reading ➞ What’s wrong with my rose?
I'm gathering my thoughts for a talk next week and came across this article in The Telegraph, written by Bunny Guinness. I'll leave her to talk more about Uncle David... Coming up roses How to find out all about the joys of breeding roses from a favourite uncle. The name of the rose: David Austin…
Continue reading ➞ Roses all the way… a potted history of David Austin Roses
Petersham Nurseries turns 10 - and I'll be talking All Things Roses... Events 5th -8th June From the Petersham Nurseries website - Join our family celebrations, a festivity of ten years Petersham Nurseries turns 10 this year and in celebration, owners The Boglione Family will be hosting a long weekend of events, open to the…
Continue reading ➞ Petersham Nurseries – 10th Anniversary Events & Celebrations!
The roses at Petersham are giving up their treasures with new blooms every day - Old Roses with impeccable credentials and the new Aristocracy, courtesy of David Austin. Even on such a wet, nay traditional Bank Holiday Monday - there was fragrance too. No more can I ask...
What can I add to the sum of the coverage of this, the greatest flower show on earth? A few photographs (and by my standards, a very few). An impression of the event, distilled from a tour yesterday evening. A drop in the ocean really - a few gorgeous plants and planting combinations, a twist…
Continue reading ➞ A glance, gander and glimpse of Chelsea 2014
I think my visit to Mottisfont - to see their incomparable collection of Old Roses - might have to be soon if the Capsule Collection at Petersham is anything to go by. New roses are popping into flower every day, with an opportunity to make new friends amongst the names I haven't seen in bloom…
Continue reading ➞ Roses, all the way – and a piece of Chelsea Fringe at Petersham Nurseries
The Teddington Gardener 