Yes, you have come to the right place... Spurred on by the changing seasons, Winter to burgeoning Spring, a change of style for The Teddington Gardener. Still me, the same plant profiles, garden guides/history/design, all my own photography, everything - but wrapped up in a fresh set of new clothes.
Primula Gold Lace Group
Primula Gold Lace Group One of my favourite springtime plants, the Florist's Polyanthus (primrose) Gold Lace Group - beautifully formed, deeply coloured & scalloped petals edged in gold, tall stems and silver buds lifted clear from a collar of ruffled green leaves. Just lovely! A strain kept alive in Lancashire and Cheshire, through the original…
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A sunny afternoon at RHS Wisley… the world in one garden
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Fantastical hellebores at RHS Wisley
If you go down to the woods today... specifically the woods beneath Battleston Hill at RHS Wisley, there are gems to be found - double, double double hellebores, spots and speckles, rainbow colours - big bold clumps too. Very happy plants. The season continues for hellebores - I think I'll sign off now and see…
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Orchids at Kew – etcetera etcetera…
http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/orchids/ Ends 9th March 2014.....
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Winter Sunshine, Hellebores, Iris Katharine Hodgkin, Cymbidiums and farewell to Syon….
Hellebore x ericsmithii Winter Sunshine is a bushy, clump forming hellebore, flowering for a long period in early spring. Creamy white flowers age with green tints through to a mellow pink, and all the colours seem to blend very well together, nothing muddy about the transitions either. Lots of flowers, though again, spaced enough apart…
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is enjoying Sarah Raven’s book The Cutting Garden
The Cutting Garden, Sarah Raven Now in paperback (2013), with a foreward by Penelope Hobhouse, a practical guide to creating and maintaining a Cutting Garden, with superb photography, detailed plans and advice from the garden to the vase. Horticulture and Floristry. I've much enjoyed her book The Bold and Brilliant Garden and I'm glad to…
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Little mices… the Kilmarnock Willow looking its furry best
The Kilmarnock Willow (Salix caprea 'Kilmarnock) is a beauty at this time of year - a weeping head of stems top-worked (grafted) onto a trunk - of short, medium or tall proportion - with long, straight trailing stems studded with silky furry dormice (catkins I mean). At other times of year I think you might…
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After winter, intimations of Spring… Kew Gardens
and finally, the shop - orchid mania due to the extravaganza going on in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
The Teddington Gardener 