Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Sorbus glabrescens with Sorbus alnifolia in the background Sorbus glabrescens, with white fruit (above) and (below) the red fruit of Sorbus alnifolia All change - Sorbus alnifolia with Sorbus glabrescens in the background Sorbus alnifolia by the Chokishi-Mon in the Japanese Landscape at Kew I've come across Sorbus glabrescens in the Arboretum at RHS Wisley…
Continue reading ➞ Sorbus glabrescens & Sorbus alnifolia – White and Red
My shed and I are about to part company - a pre-emptive strike really before it slumps into the ground - but an opportunity to replace it with something that will be a combination of potting shed, workshop, highly organised tool store and folly. My Dad had two sheds to his name, both solidly built…
Continue reading ➞ Shed Hunting….
Vanessa' is a selection of Persian ironwood that develops a more upright, columnar habit than the species. This durable tree is beautiful in every season, as its foliage, branch structure and bark are all exceptional. Its leaves are oval shaped with somewhat scalloped edges. They emerge green edged with burgundy, maturing to midgreen in summer.…
Continue reading ➞ Welcome to February with Parrotia persica Vanessa
Traffic, traffic, rat-run, traffic, late! late! ..... aaah! I had to pull over and admire the view this morning, of the Thames at Isleworth. Birds wheeling around, mist clearing, colour seeping into the landscape, white sun. I'm reminded of one of my favourite poems, Leisure, by WH Davies - I'm sure to have quoted it…
Continue reading ➞ Early morning, the Thames at Isleworth
And a larger specimen, less than ten years old and already 4-5m tall, in the garden I look after in Kew. Unworried by recent cold spells, hard frost and snow - even the prolonged minus-zero that was March 2013. Urban heat island effect.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3346137/Mimosa-How-to-grow.html http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardens/Rosemoor/About-Rosemoor/Plant-of-the-month/January/Acacia-dealbata
Hellebore Penny's Pink Photos only this time - I've talked about this particular hellebore - and Rodney Davey's other creation, Anna's Red, beforehand so shan't repeat myself.
I couldn't resist revisiting this admirable collection of Hamamelis - Witch Hazels - part of the Mediterranean Landscape at Kew. For details of the 'How to Grow' and 'What are They' variety, please re-visit my earlier post - just enter 'Hamamelis' into the search-query-box-thing.
Viburnum opulus 'Xanthocarpum', - our native Guelder Rose, literally with 'Golden Fruit'. These deep yellow, translucent fruits are a change to the more usual red. Planted together - red and yellow - and if you can get it, the compact form of both, 'Compactum', t'would make a fine sight in a smaller garden too. The…
Continue reading ➞ Golden fruit – Viburnum opulus ‘Xanthocarpum’
A break from the purely Horticultural although this fine specimen (if a disappointed one as I had brought no bread crumbs) was photographed in Kew, by the gorgeous Sackler Crossing.There is also, by the bridge, and just to reclaim the horticultural bias, a fine Swamp Cypress, Taxodium distichum, something I've mentioned very recently, this one…
Continue reading ➞ Swans, Sackler and Swamp Cypress
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