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Winter Border Workshop at Petersham Nurseries

Categories Architectural Plants, Bulbs, Camellias, Clematis, climbing plant, colour, conifers, container gardening, David Austin roses, Dry Garden, evergreen perennial, Evergreen shrubs, Exotic, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, Fruit Trees, General comment, Grasses, Hellebore, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Japanese Maples (Acers), Magnolia, Mediterranean Garden, Mottisfont Abbey, November, Ornamental trees, Petersham Nurseries, Plants for a shady garden?, Rhododendron & Azalea, RHS WIsley, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Savill Garden, Seasonal colour, Seeds, shade, Shrubs, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Snowdrops (Galanthus), The Savill Garden, Trees, Trees for smaller gardens, Vegetables, Water gardening, White Garden, Wildlife gardening, Winter Garden, witch hazel, Woodland Garden1 Comment on Winter Border Workshop at Petersham Nurseries

I have a workshop this week where we will delve into turning our gardens, in the chill months ahead, into winter borders filled with interesting plants, colours and textures. Anchor plants with attractive foliage, the tracery and silhouettes of seedheads and dried stems and flower heads, and ornamental fruit, evergreen shrubs with scented flowers for…

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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered – by these colourful, beguilingly fragrant Witch Hazels at RHS Wisley

Categories Abstract Photography, Architectural Plants, Fragrant plants, General comment, RHS WIsley, Trees for smaller gardens, Winter Garden, witch hazel, Woodland Garden1 Comment on Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered – by these colourful, beguilingly fragrant Witch Hazels at RHS Wisley

A fine day yesterday, after that miserably wet weekend but still, having a day off, a chance to head over to the RHS gardens at Wisley. My mission: to stop by the Alpine House, take in a few snowdrops, inhale my first fragrant dose of Daphne bholua, bag the first of the Hellebores and of…

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