Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A beautiful promontory, long and rocky, with far reaching views (the draw, really), with such amazing topiary in one area, close to the Chateaux, but the views are the thing. For every unanswered promise these gardens might have made, I wouldn't have missed them, but neither would I have missed them very much if I…
Continue reading ➞ Les Jardins suspendus de Marqueyssac
A late summer - nearly autumnal - tour of Bordeaux and the hinterland heading past Bergerac into the Dordogne. I'd been last there in 1991, zipping around in an electric blue Peugeot 205 GTI (and one sold recently, not the same special edition even, for £38,000. Not bitter, not a jot). This time around, in…
Continue reading ➞ Teddington Gardener abroad – Eyrignac et ses Jardins in the Dordodgne …
Friends have just visited this Walled Garden at Scampston and I was reminded of my visit several years ago - in fact six years ago to this very day - and yet I've not presented these images in these pages beforehand. Shame and Fie! So for your delight and delectation, these autumnal images and a…
A summer party cruising from Kew Bridge to London Bridge - and rather conveniently, back again - with those lovely folk from Petersham Nurseries (and that's the sole horticultural link here but I hope the scenery will make up for my hijacking these pages for personal benefit). It would be a very tough ask to…
Continue reading ➞ A little cruise up the Thames …. London by moonlight with the Petersham Crew
Close, closer, close-up - Aloe africanum in the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew - a majestic specimen in flower, with nectar beading in the warm dry conditions. My new Sigma macro lens made a pretty good job of capturing the detail, even though I had to lean precariously over from the path, across some…
Continue reading ➞ Kew, orchids, alpines and enjoying life under the macro-lens
That's it I'm afraid - one large (albeit labelled) gallery - a pictorial tour of the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire earlier this month (well, a walk around some of it, but most of that put under the camera lens).... The Hamamelis collection I stumbled across was in very fine fettle, the highlight of…
Into the Palm House first, on a rather dull morning (I missed both brilliantly bright days earlier this week, one at Petersham Nurseries, the other being a Good Boy and doing some housework, washing and much-needed shopping). But hey, it's still looking grand and my kitchen floor is shiny shiny clean. The Palm House was…
Well, I've been rather busy ... Devon - The Garden House and Knightshayes Court Cornwall - Eden Project, Barbara Hepworth Garden, Trellisick, Lanhydrock Beth Chatto Gardens, Essex RHS Wisley, several times including their Autumn Fair Kew, several more times East Bergholt Arboretum/Place for Plants, Suffolk RHS Shades of Autumn Show, London Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire Waddesdon…
Continue reading ➞ Back together again – explaining a near two-month absence….
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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