Travel broadens the mind
Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – September 2014 – The Savill Garden, Kew Gardens, Nymans, Wakehurst Place, RHS Wisley and Petersham Nurseries. Summer Crescendo.
The Savill Garden, Kew Gardens, Wakehurst Place, Petersham Nurseries, RHS Wisley. Plenty of Hydrangeas to admire, roses of course, lots, dahlias, colchicums, late-summer borders stars such as asters and rudbeckias, orchards.... Altogether much to admire!
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Teddington Gardener Review of the Year – August 2014 – Kew Gardens, Heather on the Moors and an Agricultural Show in North Yorkshire, Covent Garden Flower Market & Petersham Nurseries. Summer marches on…
Kew Gardens, Petersham Nurseries, North Yorkshire, Covent Garden Flower Market and my own projects. A busy month but time off in the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors. Glorious (have I said that before at all?)
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Teddington Gardener goes International – Madeira Explored (Part 4. Jardim Botanico/Botanic Gardens)
The Botanic Gardens in Funchal, Madeira, are, and this is not a surprise, steeply terraced gardens with a mix of native and international flora, displayed in tropical, desert, formal, forest, succulent, medicinal and herbal.... different zones with winding paths leading up and down the hillside. There is a sad and unnecessary aviary here too with…
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Teddington Gardener goes International… Madeira Explored (Part 3. Monte Palace Tropical Gardens)
Situated in the town of Monte, high up to the north of Funchal and accessed by the Cable Car (and the excellent bus services that criss-cross the capital and environs), this is a rescue project with ambition. Monte Palace was once a prestigious hotel that fell out of favour, and then out of time, until…
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Teddington Gardener goes International… Madeira Explored (Part 2. The Palheiro Gardens)
The gardens of Quinta da Palheiro are famous not only for the variety of plants that grow there but also for the beauty of their setting in the hills to the east of Funchal, the capital of Madeira. Madeira has long been called the Garden Isle and it seems that almost anything will grow in…
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Teddington Gardener Goes International… Madeira explored (Part 1. Quinta da Casa Branca)
A base for a couple of weeks horticultural adventuring - and a little relaxation - on the island of Madeira, a volcanic outcrop in the midst of the Atlantic with a bewildering variety of exciting plant life to explore. Our hotel, Quinta da Casa Branca, despite the greenery and seclusion evident from these photographs, is…
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Memories of the extraordinary Chateau de Villandry
A few years ago, this scene, in front of the extraordinary Château and gardens at Villandry, in the Loire Valley. Where the rest of the photographs are, well I'll have to do some searching as they are not on this computer - was it long ago enough that there were actual negatives and prints? http://www.chateauvillandry.fr http://thegallopinggardener.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/villandry-is-this-worlds-most-perfect.html…
Continue reading ➞ Memories of the extraordinary Chateau de Villandry
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Now I know – it’s Salvia forskaohlei – and Balkan, not Bulgarian…
orskaohlei...Salvia forskaohlei (Forskahl's Sage) (Indigo Woodland Sage) The large, almost triangular leaves of this Balkan native make a striking base for the long spires of white-streaked, violet-blue blooms where robust flower stems arch gracefully above the basal foliage, lying close to the ground. for more reading.... http://www.worldofsalvias.com/gallry12.htm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/10986782/Dream-of-colour-Growing-salvias-is-the-answer.html http://gardendrum.com/2013/04/22/favourite-autumn-flowering-salvias/
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