Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
If you're given a Murano glass vase worth close to a 'grand' it helps to have a whole cutting garden if you are to fill it well - here we have Dahlias and Hydrangeas (Phantom and at least one un-named mophead with an antique feel), Verbena bonariensis, rich red Leucothoe and fresh green ferns for…
Continue reading ➞ Dahlias & Hydrangea – Autumn bouquets
A lovely warm September day and the sunflowers in the Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries were glowing as I left for the day. Towering above the not insubstantial dahlias, cosmos, lavatera, zinnia, verbena bonariensis, remnants of sweet peas and so much more, there are several varieties planted - I picked out two here, a tawny…
Continue reading ➞ Marmite, Poodles and Sunflowers
A damp day at Petersham but the hardy gardener was undaunted and the plants were looking fine - the Cutting Garden has swelled quite noticeably, just in the week while I was away up North in t'Yorkshire - with more and more dahlias, sunflowers, twining vines, sweet peas, cosmos... A fine time to take some…
Continue reading ➞ A flower or two, a little rain and some verse by Longfellow
A pale view from Richmond Hill this morning - towards Petersham and Ham - and something rather more hectic, the summer display at the Roebuck watering hole... Petunias, fuchsias, begonias, lobelia, verbena, lysimachia and more - a waterfall of colour which will be going strong until the frosts.
Campsis radicans, a vigorous tropical-looking climber with orange trumpet flowers. Requires a sunny, sheltered site - and room to grow. A mature specimen is a glorious thing. Penstemon Riding Hood Purple (below), intense colour on a shorter plant, happy in the front of a sunny, well-drained border, even an alpine bed. Crocosmia Emily McKenzie (below)…
Continue reading ➞ I think an Ark is needed….
A few photos captured as I swept through The Garden Shop on my way out this evening. Feeling rather tropical...
Hibiscus (detail) - these are in fact blooms at least 5" across (in old money), serene satellite discs with frosted icing, blushed pink and with beaujolais wine centres and a scaffolding of creamy white stigma and stamens. I don't know the cultivar but am told it is hardy (root hardy maybe?). I might have the…
Continue reading ➞ Sky News – a stunning Hibiscus
If in doubt, make it a Big Arrangement!
These sunflowers have come on a-pace in the last few weeks, and have put on height and a grand floral display that will continue until the frosts - and beyond - the blackening seedheads will be a structural element to the cutting garden as well as a wildlife food resource as the seeds ripen. Bright…
Continue reading ➞ Bring me Sunshine (reprise) with Sunflowers from the Cutting Garden
The Teddington Gardener 