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

Categories Architectural Plants, Cutting Garden, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, Garden Design, General comment, herbaceous, Petersham Nurseries, plants for roses, Roses, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Wisteria2 Comments on A view from Petersham Nurseries – hot sun, blue skies and a wander through perennials, roses and the Cutting Garden

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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Duke’s Garden at Kew – Iris, Alliums, Geum and some florid peonies – and on to the Davies Alpine House. Continuing my constitutional around Kew Gardens

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This last was labelled Paeonia suffruticosa, no more, and is magnificent. Loved as much as me by the iridescent beetle that was in an ecstasy of pollen in the centre of each blossom. Leaving behind this garden and passing by the emerging grass borders, the Davies Alpine House and the Princess of Wales Conservatory beckon.…

Continue reading ➞ Duke’s Garden at Kew – Iris, Alliums, Geum and some florid peonies – and on to the Davies Alpine House. Continuing my constitutional around Kew Gardens

Dahlias, Alliums, some fine ceramics and much, much more… a Petersham Miscellany!

Categories Art in the landscape, dark foliage plants, Fragrant plants, General comment, herbaceous, Indoor gardening, Petersham Nurseries, Summer gardenLeave a Comment on Dahlias, Alliums, some fine ceramics and much, much more… a Petersham Miscellany!

 

The Darling Buds of May – the first Alliums, fragrant Roses, lilac, flashy tulips and buttercup fields –

Categories Bulbs, Fragrant plants, General comment, Open to the public, Petersham Nurseries, Roses, spring flowering, Spring GardenLeave a Comment on The Darling Buds of May – the first Alliums, fragrant Roses, lilac, flashy tulips and buttercup fields –

Alliums and ironwork in the Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries - elsewhere the first of the roses coming into flower - so many more in furious bud; I had to wait until July last year for the first roses to bloom - March was so bitterly and consistently chill, day and night, that the whole…

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