The rose bed outside the visitor centre to Syon House and Gardens planted up with four David Austin varieties with low hedges of box and lavender. Gertrude Jekyll, Geoff Hamilton, Winchester Cathedral and The Generous Gardener.
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Dreaming Spires
Veronica Royal Candles (Back), Salvia Caradonna (Centre), Veronica Inspires Pink (front row) An effective antidote to blobby planting in the garden (unbroken domes, crowns & mounds), these plants will add an intensity of colour, particularly with Salvias such as Caradonna, Mainacht, Ostfriedland, and that much-needed vertical accent to your border schemes. Add low evening sunlight...
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Tangerine Dreams
A fresh, rain-soaked hardy lily. In Orange. Nothing more needed here..
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Woodland Drama
Red Hot Poker Primrose/Orchid Primrose/Vial's Primrose Primrose vialii AGM Red-tipped pyramids of pink cover the woodland floor when Primula vialii is in flower. This award-winning plant is excellent for late spring and early summer colour. plant in groups in fertile, moisture-retentive, sheltered sites cool and humid conditions in the open or part shade It emerges late in…
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Evelyn
David Austin Rose, Evelyn Evelyn is a large and glorious rose. It is not an easy variety to describe, as its flowers vary so much in shape and colour. Their colour is usually a glowing mixture of apricot and yellow with just a hint of pink, but at other times, particularly late in the season,…
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A gift of roses
A bouquet of roses, ancient and modern, to feed the soul and the senses.
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Little Hell Flames…
Poppies in July Sylvia Plath Little poppies, little hell flames, Do you do no harm? You flicker. I cannot touch you. I put my hands among the flames. Nothing Burns. And it exhausts me to watch you Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth. A mouth…
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Twice in a Blue Moon with Ice Cream
The rather cryptic headline simply names these two roses, (I'll leave you to guess which is which), found while visiting Hill Park Roses (although there is no hill and being by the side of the busy Kingston by-pass, little likelihood of a park either, but I digress..). An old-fashioned family run nursery with ramshackle buildings,…
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Shades of Copper and Flame…
The luminous Pat Austin I'm reading through David Austin's The English Rose for passages relating to this rose, introduced in 1995 and named for his late wife, Pat Austin. Writing on the choice of colour and introducing new colours in particular: 'Here we are looking not simply for a variety of colour, but for good…
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The Teddington Gardener 