No, I haven't taken to canoeing home but I was cycling along the towpath towards Teddington this evening - and stopped to take these photographs, upriver and into the setting sun. Lovely.
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Fatsia japonica – bold leaves (and flowers) for a shady corner
Fatsia japonica, in flower - big, bold shiny leaves and sputnik satellites of green flower. A very useful plant for a shady spot in the garden, providing a luxuriousness that is rare in these difficult conditions. Helen Yemm, writing in the Telegraph - is a fan - How to grow: Fatsia japonica Helen Yemm loves…
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A busy day today – but this time I’m the client…
At last! Time for My Garden and taking out a large stand of Prunus laurocerasus (and not a little aucuba, yew, euonymus and pyracantha) which has taken over a sizeable part of the garden over the past five years - revealing a large bamboo which can be seen from the house now - balancing the…
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Cossack Comfrey, Nettle Nosh and Worm Wee
From goodlifegateway.com - an interesting business selling organic plant fertilisers and a helpful website to visit. You can make liquid fertilisers yourself, with little effort but this comes with a warning, since the smell of the macerating greenery, in the case of nettles and comfrey, can be quite... rich? Well, actually, Awful.... Isabel Hardman writing…
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Unlocking the secrets of Petersham Nurseries (Day One)
...and a shop like no other. Wonderland. Petersham Nurseries looking scrumptious today.
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Roses, Petersham Nurseries and Sunshine
Petersham Nurseries in the sunshine this afternoon. A lovely Spring Day with a beautiful, warm and sunny weekend ahead. So much to take in but I have to start with roses... Roses all the way down both sets of benches here - a diverse selection but many, many classic shrub and Old Roses and it…
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Chaenomeles – Japonica to you and me….
Chaenomeles x hybrida, in pink This pink stand of Chaenomeles x hybrida, by the Pagoda at Kew Gardens today. Though I do not know what it is a hybrid of - Chaenomeles speciosa, in scarlet The scarlet Chaenomeles speciosa sits within the Japanese Landscape under the Chokushi-Mon and grabs the eye! The camellias are dropping…
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Sometimes the old ones are the best…
I joined the Historic Roses Group last year (at the Hampton Court Flower Show in fact) and have been looking after a collection of Old Roses for a few years now - as well as following their use in the breeding of modern English roses from David Austin. There is much to admire and hundreds…
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Tackling that mossy lawn..
I've been battling with a particularly stubborn problem lawn since last summer - specifically rampant moss that refuses to give in.. True, the lawn is shaded by maturing trees - specimens which have grown significantly over the past three or four years - maples, mimosa, a spreading Robinia, oak too, from next door; it was…
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