The rose bed outside the visitor centre to Syon House and Gardens planted up with four David Austin varieties with low hedges of box and lavender. Gertrude Jekyll, Geoff Hamilton, Winchester Cathedral and The Generous Gardener.
Roses
A gift of roses
A bouquet of roses, ancient and modern, to feed the soul and the senses.
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Twice in a Blue Moon with Ice Cream
The rather cryptic headline simply names these two roses, (I'll leave you to guess which is which), found while visiting Hill Park Roses (although there is no hill and being by the side of the busy Kingston by-pass, little likelihood of a park either, but I digress..). An old-fashioned family run nursery with ramshackle buildings,…
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Shades of Copper and Flame…
The luminous Pat Austin I'm reading through David Austin's The English Rose for passages relating to this rose, introduced in 1995 and named for his late wife, Pat Austin. Writing on the choice of colour and introducing new colours in particular: 'Here we are looking not simply for a variety of colour, but for good…
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White Lace & Emeralds
The beautiful Damask rose, Mme Hardy, introduced in 1832, making this an outstanding old girl. Peter Beales in his excellent reference 'Classic Roses,' writes An elegant and sumptuous rose which can hold its own against any in the shrubbery. Flowers pure white, full double and quite large considering the number it produces. Centre petals are…
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Pink is the new Orange
Having been told this week by a customer that 'they never knew they liked orange so much', (there were lots of Ballerina tulips this spring, and much Geum in flower in her garden now), I think it is time to consider my 'relationship' with Orange. Maybe not give it up - the gorgeous David Austin…
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Return to Roehampton
My first visit in over six months, to the borders I created last Spring in this large Roehampton Garden. Deep breath, eyes open, great relief! They have had to look after themselves following the tidy-up I was able to give them before Christmas and I am thrilled that they have survived such a cruel and…
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Mme Isaac Pereire, Lady Emma Hamilton and Evelyn.
Mme Isaac Pereire (top left), Lady Emma Hamilton (top right) & Evelyn A fruity menage-à-trois featuring three headily fragrant flowers. Happy Days.
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My ‘200th Post’ Gallery
A snapshot of my day - beautiful plants some good weather some wet and worse - and some particularly vindictive gusting of winds bunting (before the aforementioned destroyed same) and here it is, my 200th post. Thank you, truly, for taking the time to look at this and any of the first one hundred and…
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The Teddington Gardener 