Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Viola Beacon Blue - just one from a myriad choice of violas and larger flowered pansies Large-flowered Cyclamen, bringing colour to autumn and winter containers September next week it is, and the nights are drawing in. Containers full of summer colour - lobelias, petunias, marigolds, begonias and all that - might be looking a little…
Continue reading ➞ Life after the petunias….
Just pictures, for now, of this fascinating Arts and Crafts Garden in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Such a magical place and combining the best of all worlds - a cultivated garden amid so much wild beauty.
Very probably the No. 1 Frequently Asked Question I hear deals with shade and what to plant in the supposedly inhospitable, gloomy parts of the garden. Of course there are different kind of shade, from buildings, fences, other plants, overhanging trees, deep shade, dappled shade, dry shade, damp shade, partial shade, at different times of…
Continue reading ➞ Plants for a shady garden?
A glorious sight in full flower, forming a large open, evergreen tree with fern-like glaucous to silvery foliage. Fragrant racemes of spherical yellow flower heads from winter through to spring. Coming from Australia and New Zealand, mimosas need a sheltered site, in full sun, but can still be caught out by prolonged cold and wet.…
Continue reading ➞ Acacia dealbata (Mimosa, Silver Wattle)
Bank Holiday Monday and two houses, one new to me - the Arts and Crafts Standen, the second familiar - the beautiful Nymans. Standen is an Arts & Crafts survivor, built by Philip Webb and with interiors by Morris & Co., quite complete. The country home of a careful lawyer, it is not an extravagant…
Continue reading ➞ Gardens of the Sussex Weald – Standen & Nymans
Delighted to know that buying an annual membership to the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire (£31), also entitles you to free access to the gardens at Kew and Wakehurst Place, amongst others (because of their reciprocal arrangements). I know I'll be back to the Hampshire gardens (magnolia time, summer for the Centenary Border, autumn…
Continue reading ➞ Membership deal for Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Kew
A first visit to this extraordinary 200 acre garden - and a random gallery of photographs to be getting along with... More information at www3.hants.gov.uk/hilliergardens/hillier-gardens.htm
A joint visit today, back to Mottisfont Abbey and on to the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire. This Mottisfont photo gallery taken on a rather damp 21st June last year but looking superb. April cold and then lots of rain held back the flowering of the mostly once-blooming rose collection (the main show was…
Continue reading ➞ Mottisfont Abbey, Hampshire
Picotee relates to pale flowers with a red or purple edging to the petals and sometimes purple veins and purple nectaries. Hellebore flower forms can be anemone-centred, double, spotted and single. A lot of hybridising is going on for greater colour range and more extravagant forms. I should think not all will be completely successful…
Continue reading ➞ Hellebore Harvington Hybrids ‘Picotee’
The Teddington Gardener 