Wisteria, trained as standards - show stopping specimens, filling the air with rich, peppery perfume. Spirit-lifting indeed.
Summer garden
But who is Mrs J Bradshaw?
Geum Mrs J Bradshaw Ursula Buchan to the rescue again, writing in The Telegraph on 7th June 2003, with far more information than I could pithily relate on this charming perennial. No biography of Mrs B though. Some plants just have everything that a gardener could require: good looks, long flowering season, trouble-free personality and…
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“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.” Brian Cox. Ah. Wrong 'Cosmos'... That other Cosmos is one of my very favourite 'filler' summer-flowering annuals - I used it last year in the newly planted borders of the Roehampton garden, where it quickly provided colour and…
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Love me tender..
A very lovely tender (half-hardy) climber, the Morning Glory, Ipomoea Star of Yelta, with the most intense blue trumpet flowers. Not bindweed, but in the same family, Convolvulaceae. In the summer, it can be used as an annual climber on walls, fences, over arches, or as ground cover. The large flower buds open to reveal deep…
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Onions and Red Skip
Sometimes, you just have to work with what you've got. In this case, a new delivery of flowering alliums, Pinball Wizard, and a background provided by our Biffa refuse skips... Works for me. http://www.thegardencentregroup.co.uk/item/Herbaceous-Perennials/Pinball-Wizard/VBQ
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Wisteria
If the rose is the King of Climbers, and Clematis, the Queen, what High Rank must the wisteria hold? Beautiful, fragrant & vigorous - in May and early June, it is surely unsurpassed for sheer Impact. The Laurels nursery, near Cranbrook in Kent, specialises in Wisteria (and birch) and featured in The Garden magazine recently…
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Geraneum Rozanne
RHS Plant of the Centenary, announced this week, from a shortlist of one plant per decade. Here it is threading its way through Stipa tenuissima, with Rose Harlow Carr, white Cosmos, Verbena bonariensis, a flash of Geum Mrs Bradshaw and Nepeta Walker's Low, in my Roehampton project last June. Planted out a month or so…
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A Star is Born
Geraneum Rozanne has been named as RHS Plant of the Centenary. And a Very Good Plant it is too, I've used it in many gardens. Have a look at the RHS website for details of the shortlist.
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A reminder, before new work begins
Time to look back at one project from 2012, as plans are made to return to the garden, assess the plot after an absence of almost six months (for winners and losers both) and agree on schemes for other areas. Some of my very favourite plants here.
The Teddington Gardener 