Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Dark and brooding things here - Heuchera Binoche (bottom right, near matt purple-black leaves, blackcurrant liquorish), Ceanothus Blue Sapphire (top, eventually forming a mound just 2' tall, with bright blue flowers) and my favourite, Primula Kennedy Innisfree - fabulous dark, velvety red flowers displayed against bronze-purple foliage... I've used Heuchera Binoche in large container display…
Continue reading ➞ Dark and brooding foliage, deep velvety flowers
How to grow: Lily of the valley To Carol Klein, this plant is the very essence of May. Carol Klein The Telegraph 12:01AM BST 01 May 2004 Today, May Day, people all over France will be following Gallic tradition and giving deliciously fragrant posies of muguets des bois as love tokens. The scent of muguet,…
Continue reading ➞ The worst of all delicious weeds – Convallaria majalis
Simple, scented displays here, grouped on tables and terraces in a garden in Kew:- Narcissus Tête à Tête, white Hyacinths (either Aiolos or Carnegie, I forget which - most probably Carnegie, here), taller early-flowering daffodils, primrose-coloured and scented Wall flowers (Sugar Rush - a variety in bloom from Autumn through to Spring) and primroses in pale…
Continue reading ➞ Simple ideas for scented spring containers
I've mentioned this pretty thing recently and I thought it deserves another outing - here it is again...
Hebe buxifolia nana - perfect tiny stacking towers of deep green, shiny leaves A dwarf 'boxwood' Hebe, a neat compact domes plant, growing no more than 30cm tall and wide, white flowers in the spring marking this out as something other than a clipped topiary box (Buxus). Native of New Zealand - my town garden…
Continue reading ➞ A hebe that thinks it’s a box
Hellebore x ericsmithii Winter Sunshine is a bushy, clump forming hellebore, flowering for a long period in early spring. Creamy white flowers age with green tints through to a mellow pink, and all the colours seem to blend very well together, nothing muddy about the transitions either. Lots of flowers, though again, spaced enough apart…
and finally, the shop - orchid mania due to the extravaganza going on in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
Crocus Jeanne D'Arc Crocus tricolor
Crocus and polyanthus, brightening up my windowsills My favourite is the three-toned yellow-white-blue Crocus tricolor, which has come through again despite a regime of benign neglect. The pots were shuffled away last spring to the side of the house and left to their own devices - brought out when the first promise of green began…
Continue reading ➞ All you need is a windowsill…
The Teddington Gardener 