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It's been a little more difficult to keep this blog right up to date with details and pictures from my regular horticultural excursions, though I'll try and do better - the last two entries have been vast galleries, carefully selected and duly annotated they are of course, but 2 galleries in two months eh? My…

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Just a little gallery – Acers through to Woodwardia – a horticultural catch-up of the past couple of colourful, autumnal weeks

Categories Acid-loving plants, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Autumn garden, dark foliage plants, evergreen perennial, Evergreen shrubs, Flower Shows, Fragrant plants, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Japanese Maples (Acers), Magnolia, Ornamental trees, Plants for a shady garden?, Rhododendron & Azalea, Seasonal colour, Trees, Trees for smaller gardens, Woodland GardenLeave a Comment on Just a little gallery – Acers through to Woodwardia – a horticultural catch-up of the past couple of colourful, autumnal weeks

  Well, Acers first - from Wisley and Kew, Winkworth Arboretum and here and thereabouts! Followed by the rest of the As through to C ..s .... and moving on through the D E F and a touch of the Gs - there's a whole little gallery of Gentians afterwards - the more colourful elements…

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Back together again – explaining a near two-month absence….

Categories Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Autumn garden, Camellias, David Austin roses, Dry Garden, General comment, National Trust Gardens, Petersham Nurseries, RHS WIsley, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, The Savill Garden, Travel broadens the mind, Woodland Garden5 Comments on Back together again – explaining a near two-month absence….

Well, I've been rather busy ... Devon - The Garden House and Knightshayes Court Cornwall - Eden Project, Barbara Hepworth Garden, Trellisick, Lanhydrock Beth Chatto Gardens, Essex RHS Wisley, several times including their Autumn Fair Kew, several more times East Bergholt Arboretum/Place for Plants, Suffolk RHS Shades of Autumn Show, London Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire Waddesdon…

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A few days …. all manner of early autumn herbaceous-ness, roses, dahlias, sunflower, more herbaceous perennials, heuchera and Solenostemon (finishing up with Crinkly Bottom….)

Categories Alpine, Architectural Plants, Autumn garden, Climbing plants, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, Dry Garden, Fragrant plants, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, Hydrangea, late summer border, Roses, Seasonal colour, Vegetables, Woodland Garden2 Comments on A few days …. all manner of early autumn herbaceous-ness, roses, dahlias, sunflower, more herbaceous perennials, heuchera and Solenostemon (finishing up with Crinkly Bottom….)

a little late summer turning to autumn herbaceousness for your delight and delectation.... It has been a few days since my last blog entry and I have been busy working, gardening and photographing. A new camera has already improved the picture offering I think, with more natural and realistic colours. With file sizes between 10MG…

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Q… K for Kew – an hour through the woodland, family beds and rock garden…

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Aconitum Bicolor (below)   From here, we leave the Family Beds borders and step into the Rock Garden (bypassing the superb Salvia Borders are there is still a long way to go before they look at their best - October at least) First, this extravagant show of seedheads which at first I took for Pulsatilla...…

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C – for colour, colour and just a little more glorious colour…

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A little colour, from the benches of Petersham Nurseries ... Below, Alstroemeria Inticacha Sunshine Little Miss Tara and Alstroemeria Little Miss Sophie, Little  Miss Emily

G for Green – leafy, verdant, lush, spotted, striped, palmate, pinnate, tropical, variegated, shiny, polished, aromatic, toothed, silvered, spiny, berried, bold, ferny, golden….

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Catalpa bignonioides Aurea All this greenery, in all its variety, I photographed at RHS Wisley last week. No fireworks, no rainbow colours, but you could make a satisfying garden with just leafy palette.... Myrtus communis (below)

B for Begonia

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Begonia Fireworks, part of a small display in the Glasshouse at RHS Wisley. Reminds me that I rather like them and should find room for one, or three, at home. I overheard a customer just this last week commenting on how tolerant of, how shall I say, a regime of benign neglect they can be.…

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