A very useful evergreen shrub, with neat glossy leaves and masses of white, highly fragrant, sweetly scented flowers in early Spring. In sun or part-shade, growing 6' tall and through (though with judicious pruning after it has flowered, it can be kept more compact). The species name burkwoodii appears against several plants - and refers…
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A Mediterranean Town Garden begins to shape up…
A Mediterranean Town Garden in Kew Another full day and progress is being made, though I think a hot bath is needed now for sore muscles! Pretty much all of the plants have found a home - and thankfully the soil is quite workable - stony, but compliant. Just a few specimens to plant tomorrow,…
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Spring is springing… the right plants at the right time, this time
Despite the early appearance of poppies - and unexplained red hot pokers in full bloom - Spring is asserting itself with just the right kind of bulbs and blossom - a little photo-gallery so that we can appreciate Nature's Bounty But then what are these things doing in flower right now - a whole clump…
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Plants and prospects for my new Kew Project
We're off to a good start - breaking ground today on my Mediterranean project in Kew. The first crop of plants have been delivered, including those I bought from North Hill Nurseries last week. The (growing) list includes - Caryopteris Heavenly Blue, Dark Knight, White Surprise (7), Euphorbia White Swan (3), Pinus Mugo Mops, Amelanchier…
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Poppycock
And which season do we think it is today, pray tell? If we were to take the evidence of this bright beauty, well it would be early summer... and this clump of poppies has been in flower for a couple of weeks, in a front garden a few door away from me at home in…
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Magnolias – a New Ice Age at The Savill Garden
Look up! These are, for the most part, big trees in the landscape, tall, towering forms with blossoms in crystalline white, glacial and very probably played by Tilda Swinton in the movie - but there are elsewhere, blushes of pink too, still cool but not so icy and with one, a definite warm, deep-rose. All…
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Time for lunch… or a spot of tea?
For no reason, this little entry, save for the whimsy of a pretty picture. A table laid for a Piedmont-inspired lunch at Petersham Nurseries. Meanwhile in the Tea House, hyacinths scent the air and all manner of climbers clamber about (Jasmine, Trachelospermum jasminoides, Passiflora), vying with the Dicksonia Tree Ferns for your attention. Tall urns…
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Spring delights in the The Savill Garden
A pageant of colour - rhododendrons and camellias, hellebores and pulmonarias, cherry blossom, crocus, narcissus, daphne and more - but which group of plants is missing from this gallery. It's a biggie?! Links http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/gardens-and-landscape/the-savill-garden http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/seasonal-highlights/the-savill-garden/march-and-april/ http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/visitor-information/the-savill-building/
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Rosa mulliganii – roses and the Sissinghurst Technique
Rosa mulliganii, the rose used at the centre of the White Garden at Sissinghurst, threading its way over a filigree pergola. Vigorous, yet delicate and beautiful, a tracery of stems creating windows through into the garden. And (above) here it is in Kew Gardens. A Monster of a Plant.... A huge abundance of bright rose…
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