Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Primula auricula, Alpine House at RHS Wisley. Now this is a group of plants you could really get obsessed about - and many have - with such a range of colour and form. Primulas, the garden centre variety, are just coming into Syon now and while I could grow to love the auricula (we might…
Continue reading ➞ Primula auricula
Hamamelis x intermedia Copper Cascade (Witch hazel). Back to seasonal themes with this astonishingly beautiful and richly coloured witch hazel, Copper Cascade. The overall impression, particularly against the dark evergreens and bare branches of other woodland trees is more subtle, but close up - wow!
Such care from RHS Chelsea exhibitors, individually wrapping these paeonia (peony) blooms. Jumping ahead to Spring again with this post - I can't resist. Our first range of baby herbaceous plants arrived at Syon today and bring with them a promise of exuberant growth and colour. In the spirit of the season however, I brought…
Continue reading ➞ Such care from RHS Chelsea exhibitors
Spurred on by the BBC4 series starting tonight - and having read Adam Nicolson's book "Sissinghurst - An Unfinished History" last summer, it seems a good time to look through the photographs taken on a rather damp early August day last year. For a few brief minutes I had the garden all to myself. Heaven.
All grey and overcast today so I though I should brighten up the day with a selection of Spring bulb images from my own back catalogue! The Roehampton garden project will be considerably brighter for all the bulb planting that went on last year (and I have about 20 large pots of bulbs yet to…
Continue reading ➞ Spring bulbs for a chill, wintery day
Daphne bholua 'Alba', the white flowered form of this intoxicatingly sweet scented shrub. Typically evergreen and growing 6' to 10' high, less in spread. Reading from Michael Dirr's Encyclopedia 'The Daphnes are great garden plants and several species offer the sweetest fragrance... Daphne culture is akin to voodoo medicine, and many different recommendations are given.…
Continue reading ➞ Daphne bholua Alba
Hydrangea Flower and Ice. An image taken during a magical walk around a near deserted and very snowy garden at RHS Wisley, Surrey. Colour and scent are available to furnish the winter garden but seed heads, spent flowers, last season's grass stems and much more can still delight. No need to be overly tidy and…
Continue reading ➞ Hydrangea and Ice
Lady Emma Hamilton. The buds of this English Rose, bred by David Austin and introduced in 2005, are red with orange flashes. The fully opened flowers are a rich mix of tangerine orange and gold and the whole is set off by dark, bronzy-green foliage which becomes dark green with age. This unusual colour combination…
Continue reading ➞ Lady Emma Hamilton
An abstract image taken yesterday at Syon. Repetition of themes, plants or features within a garden are elements of the language of design and which help create a garden with an overall, coherent appeal.
The Teddington Gardener 