Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
August has already given us some glorious sunshine and plenty of beautifully warm days - and while there may be a little rain (OK, a lot of rain coming) - this is a combination that our plants will absolutely love. True, the evenings are that little bit shorter now and this signals a change in…
Continue reading ➞ Your garden in August – a few thoughts …
You've walked with me from the entrance at RHS Wisley through to the grass borders, across to the tropical border with towering bananas and cannas and past the dogwood collection (with willows and rubus) which are green green green at the moment but in winter are a forest of ruby, gold, scarlet, black and bone…
A summer party cruising from Kew Bridge to London Bridge - and rather conveniently, back again - with those lovely folk from Petersham Nurseries (and that's the sole horticultural link here but I hope the scenery will make up for my hijacking these pages for personal benefit). It would be a very tough ask to…
Continue reading ➞ A little cruise up the Thames …. London by moonlight with the Petersham Crew
The Hive at Kew Gardens - and you had to get up quite early to see it as unpopulated - though not all to myself - as this. One photographer already on site (for The Mail? maybe...) was trying to get a 360°panorama by taking several photographs - to be stitched together later - but…
Continue reading ➞ The Hive, mostly, but room here for a few other delights at Kew Gardens …
This is the Cass Sculpture Park near Goodwood - we visited in early April after a splendid wedding in Chichester and Itchenor Sailing Club - and I haven't included these pictures within my horticultural ramblings earlier. But, having loved the garden at the Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden over the weekend - and it is a…
A garden visit this afternoon but not entirely for the horticulture ... This is, despite the artful additions, a just-tamed and beautiful, cool green, tranquil and quite enchanting garden - the rock and water garden to the former Leith Vale Estate built in the 1920s (Leith Vale was then owned by one Trotter, banker and…
The spectacle of the Double Herbaceous Borders at RHS Wisley at the height of summer! I definitely have Border Envy though I appreciate how much work goes into this long-lasting display. Such healthy happy plants too. The Country Garden, pictured below is no less of an extravaganza but the effect in many parts is of…
The Trial Fields at RHS Wisley where much is being assessed and examined, usually over a three-year period, to determine the best cultivars and those that might be awarded the coveted Award of Garden Merit (AGM). Rosemary and Alliums, Corn, Viburnum, Penstemons, Petunias, Begonias and Cabbage, Cosmos, Calla Lily, Echinacea - and much more -…
Continue reading ➞ More A-Zs from RHS Wisley – Agapanthus and Zantedeschia in the Trial Fields
A day at Petersham Nurseries, working I might add, dispensing horticultural advice and bon-mots to a pretty happy crowd - weather warm but not too warm, a good breeze, plenty of plants to pretty the place up, time to talk to the customers - and keep everything watered - and time to make a few…
The Teddington Gardener 