Summer garden
A day at the RHS London Rose Show – full & fragrant with five excellent talks … #RHSLondon #Roses
Claudio Bincoletto is at the show each day and I'm sorry that I'll miss his talk tomorrow afternoon (at 4pm now I think) - Roses and their exotic scent: preparations to preserve aroma, and the ancient secrets of rose water, rose jam and wild flower cordials, Claudio Bincoletto, Master Forager I'll also miss Peter Scott…
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More to delight from RHS Wisley …
Cool hostas for a shady spot; bright - and fragrant - Azaleas to share the limelight and much more besides - perennials and shrubs for sun and shade, a couple of climbers .... A snapshot of late May (the second May Bank Holiday weekend is upon us!) ...
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A Petersham Flower Show – we had snow last week and now this – blue skies, sunshine and a bigger, brighter truly floriferous floral parade
Another bright and sunny day, breezy at times but absolutely feeling like summer. Starting off this morning in my garden, beneath the horse-chestnut tree now decked with white floral candles, my own tulip displays and then off to Petersham Nurseries. Plants upon plants upon plants everywhere - exactly as it should be. The Cutting Garden…
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The grass borders at RHS Wisley… reds, oranges, yellows, purples, blues and, oh yes, green….
and more red hot pokers...
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The Glasshouse Borders at RHS Wisley – masterly and painterly, still
From a vantage at the top of The Mount, looking down towards the lake and Glasshouse, these double borders mix perennials and grasses with stands of shrubs (like Cotinus), planted in ribbons that hop across from one side of the grass to the other. Well, you know this since I've come back to these borders…
Continue reading ➞ The Glasshouse Borders at RHS Wisley – masterly and painterly, still
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Arabella Lennox Boyd – invention and boundless imagination in the gardens at Gresgarth Hall
A chance remark and the right alignment of dates and here we are, wandering through these remarkable gardens created in the midst of a wooded valley, bisected by a tributary of the River Lune, a showcase for the imagination and talent of garden designer Arabella Lennox Boyd. Up North, in the village of Caton outside…
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A Petersham Nurseries Gallery – a feast of roses & perennials and a closer look at the Cutting Garden
I arrived at Petersham Nurseries 45 minutes earlier than necessary with a view to taking a few pictures - and I am a speedy photographer - so here is a little gallery of plants that are both conveniently for sale or at home in the Cutting Garden (a practical resource for so much of the…
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Petersham Nurseries at the recent Grow London Garden Fair – a little video
Take a 6m by 6m space, add a rustic chestnut pergola, a wildflower meadow, fragrant roses, annuals, perennials and grasses, herbs, climbers ramblers and vines, tree ferns and a little bedding in there too - the whole contents of a cutting garden with plants for sun and shade but everything speaking of June; an Indian…
Continue reading ➞ Petersham Nurseries at the recent Grow London Garden Fair – a little video
The Teddington Gardener 