Petersham Nurseries at the Grow London Garden Fair – over now but definitely not to be forgotten….

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A full planting of annuals, biennials, meadow grasses and wild flowers, bulbs, perennials, roses, climbers and ramblers, herbs and traditional bedding plants - a delicious tumble of colours and fragrances. Petersham Nurseries in miniature, with Indian carts and terracotta, rustic chestnut pergola, hoggin floor, kokedama and edible flowers. A magical garden created for the Grow…

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Petersham Nurseries at Grow London Garden Fair – creating a wild and beautifully poised, intensely detailed, naturally exuberant garden – quintessentially, eccentrically Petersham and just about tamed for this eclectic modern garden show…

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Thomas Broom, Rosie Bines and Amanda Brame of Petersham Nurseries, who have created this wild Eden, a distillation of Petersham Nurseries for the Grow London Garden Fair on Hampstead Heath, open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. .... as the marquee empties and lights are switched off, the garden waits for the first visitors tomorrow. I'm…

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Mayfield Lavender Farm

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Another visit to Mayfield Lavender near Banstead in Surrey - in fact I stayed so long taking pictures and sitting in among the rows of lavender that the nursery I actually went to visit closed for the day by the time I got there... tomorrow then. I bought some lemon and lavender marmalade, peach and…

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A return to Mottisfont Abbey; an Old Rose Pilgrimage

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A pilgrimage to these gardens, for which, so far as the roses are concerned, we have Graham Stuart Thomas to thank principally and for the last 40+ years, the National Trust for preserving and enhancing his original collection of Old Roses. Mottisfont holds the National Collection of Shrub Roses. I met Jonny Bass, the head…

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Colour in the Garden – from Acacia to Zantedeschia

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A rather large gallery which was put together with a view to featuring, some of them at least, in talk being given at BBC Gardeners' World Live this weekend by Nicky Roeber, one-time Garden Designer and who now works for my old firm at Syon Park. I visited the show on  Friday but sadly not…

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Everything I saw at BBC Gardeners’ World Live today ….

Categories Acid-loving plants, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, Clematis, Climbing plants, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, evergreen perennial, Flower Shows, Fragrant plants, Garden Design, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, House plants, Hydrangea, Indoor gardening, Japanese Maples (Acers), Kitchen Garden, Mediterranean Garden, Orchids, Plants for a shady garden?, plants for roses, Rhododendron & Azalea, Roses, Seasonal colour, Seeds, Shrubs, Spring Garden, Summer garden, Travel broadens the mind, Tropical, White Garden, Wildlife gardening1 Comment on Everything I saw at BBC Gardeners’ World Live today ….

Voila! All my photos from the show in one gallery - I've had a lovely day but with several hours travel up and down the M40 and sat sitting on the M25... well here are my pictures and I'm going out for some dinner now..... There is, I grant, a little sorting through, grouping, annotating…

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The Savill Garden and Windsor Great Park – summer cycling and a picnic, roses, dry gardens, shady glades and boggy bits, castles, lakes and wide open spaces

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The Savill Garden was our first port of call today, an impressive collection of gardens within the larger vision of Windsor Great Park. I wanted to have a look at the rose garden in particular, a swirling design of tapering interlocking beds, the colour of the roses intensifying towards the centre (peaking with Munstead Wood,…

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Roses at Kew Gardens – Wild Roses, Old Roses, English Roses. A Grand Start and so much more to come…

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and the new 2015/16 Handbook of Roses, which I picked up at the first RHS London Rose Show today... and a duck, at Kew Gardens, to round things off!! The Rose Garden at Kew Gardens today - with a lot of roses popping but still much, much, much more to come - a fine selection…

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A view from Petersham Nurseries – hot sun, blue skies and a wander through perennials, roses and the Cutting Garden

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And a look at a few of the Aquilegias we have... Hot, hot, hot, today, sun and blue skies over this part of Arcadia, and here - a glimpse of some of the plants and floral displays that caught my eye today. The Cutting Garden seems to be quadrupling in flower-power every week and this…

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