Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A beautiful addition to the displays, this bronze cooking bowl in which spring flowers - tulips and tree peonies, violas and clematis, the last of the Hellebores are dropped into the shallow clear water. The breeze moves them around in a floral ballet of brownian motion and it is a real delight. Some float, some…
Continue reading ➞ A Spring Soup … spring cutting garden flowers, floating
Well I must apologise first - shaky camera, dull and overcast, fingers in the frame ... a less than dynamic narration but nevertheless, the subject of this amateur videography is still shining through. The Cutting Garden within Petersham Nurseries has been a floral powerhouse these past few weeks and the cooler weather we have enjoyed…
A little bit of repetition in these images, but I am dithering about editing them and can't decide exactly which I prefer, so you're getting pretty much them all! A beautiful sunshiny spring morning, after a night of stormy electric rain, and everything after the warmth of the last week - and the weeks of…
Continue reading ➞ Petersham House Gardens National Garden Scheme Open Day
Tender, tropical houseplants inside the Garden Shop and elsewhere, early perennials, bulbs, flowering shrubs and spring colour. A few, random, images from Petersham Nurseries last week. We've had glorious sunshine (well, yesterday at least), so expecting the Cutting Garden to be even more verdant, more colourful and probably about a foot taller too. We're about…
Continue reading ➞ In the Garden Shop & Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries …
A few Persian jewels for the Easter weekend, Ranunculus ... and a few Streptocarpus - and a couple of Aquilegias - Enjoy the Bank Holiday Weekend, whatever the weather ...
The Florist's Bench was crammed full to bursting with Spring loveliness - too good not to share! A kaleidoscope of colour, matched by fresh greens - magical. Credit to Abi Cooke.
First there was a wide pool of water with the floating heads of Hellebores, upturned to enjoy the sunshine. Garden gathered Anna's Red, White Tutu and the original, purple Tutu, Winter Moonbeam, a few hybrids... then came the big freeze -
Having spent rather a lot of time indoors these past few days, (understandably I wasn't outside very much with the outdoor plants at Petersham Nurseries, what with it being Arctic here in the UK). Well I don't feel too hard done by - The Garden Shop is a beautiful, colourful and fragrant space full of…
Continue reading ➞ A Garden Shop …. (with updated gallery)
Just a little gallery ...
The Teddington Gardener 