Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
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…
Flowers to brighten these chill darker days are an invaluable commodity in the garden, and few are more welcome nor so colourful as the Hellebore. There is the myriad variety of colours and flower forms of the Lenten Rose (Hellebore hybridus), bold architectural foliage and flower of the Corsican Hellebore (H. argutifolius), and Christmas rose hybrids…
Continue reading ➞ Hellebored? Not me ….
Just mopping up with the remainder of the photographs taken last week when I headed off to Kew Gardens, warmed up in the Princess of Wales Conservatory and then joined the 'Meet the Experts' tour talking all things Snowdrop. A random selection though I wish you could take in the delicious fragrance from the Chimonanthus…
Such a treat, earlier this week, attending one of Kew Gardens' Meet the Experts Tours. Every Tuesday throughout the year (or probably pretty much), you are delivered into the hands of one of their Experts for a private tour of one aspect of the work going on at Kew. This month they are talking everything snowdrops…
A dull day, yesterday, with a chill wind and a fine mist of rain oftentimes so it was glorious to spend a little time inside the Princess of Wales Conservatory in Kew Gardens - plenty of humidity and generously warm temperatures and what a collection of plants in the tropical section here - orchids…
Continue reading ➞ Looking for a January Getaway? A tropical holiday? Try Kew Gardens
Happy New Year folks! And to start us off, a little tour from Petersham Nurseries. I shall be talking a trip out next week - Wisley perhaps, or a guded tour at Kew over their Snowdrop Collection - or somewhere else indeed - but all my days this year so far have been at the…
Continue reading ➞ A New Year at Petersham Nurseries
What a busy year! Looking back, horticulturally, I had great intentions of course to visit as many new gardens as possible and in addition to having had the privilege of repeated visits to Kew Gardens and RHS Wisley, close to me, I ventured up to Shropshire, Wales, Oxfordshire and West Sussex in one trip in…
Continue reading ➞ It’s the most wonderful time of the year ….
Almost a perfect mirror, crossing by Teddington Lock this morning. Had to stop and take a picture though Important Business going on at Petersham Nurseries with the arrival of the Christmas trees. They were packed up for us in Warwickshire at about 5am to get to us in time for opening. Busy Busy. But first…
Continue reading ➞ A frosty morning at Petersham Nurseries – and the Christmas Trees arrive …
Such a beautiful day, yesterday, 24th November, under a bright blue clear sky and welcome sunshine. Chill but quite beautiful. I'd never seen the car parks so full - in fact I was directed over a mile down the lane towards the village before heading cross-country into previously unseen fields before making the trek back…
The Teddington Gardener 