Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Echinacea purpurea Rubinglow and Echinacea purpurea Green Edge Here, at the top of the border near The Mount, it is a battle between the Echinacea Rubinglow and Green Edge, though the balance is far in the favour of plummy purple cultivar. Allium seed heads provide some contrast too. The ground here, as well as being…
Continue reading ➞ Piet Oudolf Borders at RHS Wisley
Blue Bearded Iris at Newby Hall, Yorkshire Newby Hall, Yorkshire - a substantial double herbaceous border punctuated with these glorious iris, the name of which I either neglected to note - or was not marked - or I didn't bother to look if it was (so much to photograph...) I think the colour has been…
The Duke's Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew A modestly sized garden, to be found behind the grass beds and beyond the Alpine House and Princess of Wales Conservatory. A wide lawn with deep, generous herbaceous borders enclosed behind tall brick walls. Impressive, bold block planting of some outstanding perennials including the brilliantly named daylily, Burning…
Continue reading ➞ Burning Daylight
Just pictures, for now, of this fascinating Arts and Crafts Garden in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Such a magical place and combining the best of all worlds - a cultivated garden amid so much wild beauty.
The Plantsman's Walk, Or a little less than one quarter of it, leading into the Walled Gardens at Scampston in North Yorkshire. An avenue of limes with a border mainly of spring-flowering plants, including Paeonie rockii and Edgworthia chrystantha (two of my favourite plants, featured earlier in these entries), underplanted with many bulbs, and autumn…
Continue reading ➞ Scampston Walled Garden
Newby Hall & Gardens, Ripon A week exploring North Yorkshire and much to see was there! Newby Hall & Gardens, near Ripon, was near the top of the list of attractions and a real plant hunters delight with much that is rare and unusual. The National Collection of Cornus kousa, a whole garden of salvias…
Continue reading ➞ A Yorkshire Tale
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…
Continue reading ➞ Little Hell Flames…
The wildflower meadow - an avenue really - at Syon Park. Just getting going nicely after a little heat..
An architectural digest of some of the houses, and gardens, on Kew Green. I missed Open Gardens there a little while ago, so losing out on the opportunity of seeing the back gardens, which promise much. Next year then.
The Teddington Gardener 