Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A jaunt around the Duke's Garden at Kew - the Arum Lilies in the last entry are to be found here, in some shade and immensely happy. As indeed are all the herbaceous plantings here. I remember the searing quality of the Hemerocallis Burning Daylight - brighter even than the Geums here and in great…
Continue reading ➞ Delighting in the Duke’s Garden at Kew
The buttercups are gilding the water meadows but in amongst the trees, cow parsley is Queen - well Queen Anne's Lace - Cow Parsley Anthriscus sylvestris Cow Parsley is a hollow-stemmed, tall plant that grows rapidly in the summer before dying back. It likes shady habitats in particular, and can be found decorating woodland edges,…
Continue reading ➞ If you go down to the woods today… a regal study in light and shade
Violas and wallflowers in a very successful partnership. The viola is Etain, a particularly hardworking plant that will be in flower from spring through to autumn, needing little care other than regular watering and clipping back if it gets too leggy. I shall be copying this next year. Meanwhile, some flamingo pink in the gardens…
Continue reading ➞ and the final few from an April afternoon at RHS Wisley…
A quick scoot around the meandering paths that wind round the slopes of Battleston Hill in the RHS gardens at Wisley. I had a glimpse of what I might find in the Wild Garden, another part of the gardens there, when I visited earlier in the week and had less than an hour to explore…
Something to brighten up a shady spot in the garden, Epimedium grandiflorum Lilafee Interesting foliage, bright amethyst flowers held above fresh bronze leaves, a plant happy in shade, dry shade even, and under tree canopies - a recent (2012) introduction and sure to be a winner. The flowers are not showy or show-stopping, like the…
Continue reading ➞ Finally! Something Not a tulip – Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Lilafee’
Just on my doorstep, a bright sparky tulip to set me on my way - and amid a street full of blossom, something a little darker than the usual bubble-gum pinks many Cherries adopt - And on to my first job, a local garden with a lawn more moss than grass - a fine, deep…
A pageant of colour - rhododendrons and camellias, hellebores and pulmonarias, cherry blossom, crocus, narcissus, daphne and more - but which group of plants is missing from this gallery. It's a biggie?! Links http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/gardens-and-landscape/the-savill-garden http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/seasonal-highlights/the-savill-garden/march-and-april/ http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/visitor-information/the-savill-building/
Fatsia japonica, in flower - big, bold shiny leaves and sputnik satellites of green flower. A very useful plant for a shady spot in the garden, providing a luxuriousness that is rare in these difficult conditions. Helen Yemm, writing in the Telegraph - is a fan - How to grow: Fatsia japonica Helen Yemm loves…
Continue reading ➞ Fatsia japonica – bold leaves (and flowers) for a shady corner
and finally, the shop - orchid mania due to the extravaganza going on in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
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