Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
The Renaissance Garden The National Collection of English Roses is held in the gardens at Albrighton. The Renaissance Garden is perhaps the most beautiful of all the gardens, and is devoted to English Roses. These roses start flowering in late May and continue right through to the frosts of early winter. This lovely garden demonstrates…
A return through the Long Garden - the unusual feature of these photographs is of course the sunshine and blue skies - the Divine smiling on these roses and me, a humble if enthusiastically photographing acolyte ... The Long Garden The Long Garden forms the central core of the rose garden, with the other gardens…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – third helpings from David Austin Roses
Like I said, an Inventory ... The Victorian Walled Garden The Victorian Walled Garden is a formal garden made up of three circular borders, which diminish in width towards the centre. They are planted with English Roses and other repeat-flowering shrub roses. The focal point of the garden is the large central stone carving. Visitors can…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – Seconds from David Austin Roses
A first look at the Long Garden, mostly, at the eponymous gardens at Albrighton - just a short drive from our base near Shrewsbury and a beautiful, inspirational stop-over on our way to Woodstock. I realised of course today that I have effectively inventories the gardens, as I might once have done to a flat…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – a first gallery from David Austin Roses at Albrighton
Peter Beales created a beautiful exhibit with rose artfully - and artlessly - twined through each other in imaginative combinations (Alchymst and Phyllis Bide was especially successful). Perennial Blue I shall look out for as an alternative to Veilchenblau or Violette and shall hope for a space for Kiftsgate Superior.
A snapshot from Petersham Nurseries this week ....
A few images from a day at the Nurseries. I've been tweeting and instagramming over the past few days and posted a couple of videos too - they'll be easy to find from the links on my blog - featuring amongst other things, this vibrant Cutting Garden. They will give you an overview of this…
David Austin Roses, one of Britain's great rose breeders, will launch three new varieties for 2017. Here's a sneak preview with grateful thanks to http://www.gardenandgreen.co.uk for the heads up ... (A quick internet search hasn't thrown this up anywhere else as yet, but trusting this is indeed a reliable source!) DAME JUDI DENCH - English…
An unexpected bit of free time today and lo! A parking space by the Victoria Gate which meant I had to stop - and (first things first) smell the roses. Gertrude Jekyll, Stanwell Perpetual and Madame Isaac Pereire brought High Summer right back on a mostly overcast mid-November day. Soul food. From the Rose Garden,…
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