Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Wending our way southwards, down the M40 and a stop-over in Woodstock, the charming little town next to Blenheim Palace. The sun continued to kiss our happy little heads as we trailed around the extensive park and formal gardens. Breathtaking, as always. Read more at http://www.blenheimpalace.com/ I finish off with a quick tour of Daylesford…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Oxfordshire – Woodstock and Blenheim Palace
A sleeping country gentleman's house this, nothing aristocratic but beautifully preserved - preserved just enough but not restored - the dust and cracked plaster are still there to see - and the decline of centuries is an open book. The poverty of the estate has become its greatest asset, where other properties' wealth may have…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Oxfordshire – Jacobean Chastleton House
The Patio Garden Our patio garden features English specimen roses in a variety of large, decorative terracotta planters. English Roses, with their gracefully rounded, shrubby growth, are ideal for growing in this way. They bring character and interest to the gravelled area around the Plant Centre and their beautiful, deliciously fragrant flowers can be easily…
The Lion Garden The Lion Garden has been redesigned and the sculpture moved to create a focal point. Four long borders mingle shrub roses, including many English Roses, with herbaceous perennials, creating a wonderful contrast of colour, form, texture and scent. The borders are punctuated by magnificent standard roses, which add height and structure to…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – Chapter 5 from David Austin Roses – The Lion Garden
The Renaissance Garden The National Collection of English Roses is held in the gardens at Albrighton. The Renaissance Garden is perhaps the most beautiful of all the gardens, and is devoted to English Roses. These roses start flowering in late May and continue right through to the frosts of early winter. This lovely garden demonstrates…
A return through the Long Garden - the unusual feature of these photographs is of course the sunshine and blue skies - the Divine smiling on these roses and me, a humble if enthusiastically photographing acolyte ... The Long Garden The Long Garden forms the central core of the rose garden, with the other gardens…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – third helpings from David Austin Roses
Like I said, an Inventory ... The Victorian Walled Garden The Victorian Walled Garden is a formal garden made up of three circular borders, which diminish in width towards the centre. They are planted with English Roses and other repeat-flowering shrub roses. The focal point of the garden is the large central stone carving. Visitors can…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – Seconds from David Austin Roses
A first look at the Long Garden, mostly, at the eponymous gardens at Albrighton - just a short drive from our base near Shrewsbury and a beautiful, inspirational stop-over on our way to Woodstock. I realised of course today that I have effectively inventories the gardens, as I might once have done to a flat…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – a first gallery from David Austin Roses at Albrighton
Another Welsh Castle, this time quite the fortified beast, with a dungeon that surely brought despair to anyone unhappy enough to find themselves there. Much to enjoy in the gardens though with formal and more naturalistic planting and long views - and glad to have been able to take photographs of the interiors too. Read…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Wales – Chirk Castle
The Teddington Gardener 