Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Tender, tropical houseplants inside the Garden Shop and elsewhere, early perennials, bulbs, flowering shrubs and spring colour. A few, random, images from Petersham Nurseries last week. We've had glorious sunshine (well, yesterday at least), so expecting the Cutting Garden to be even more verdant, more colourful and probably about a foot taller too. We're about…
Continue reading ➞ In the Garden Shop & Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries …
A poetic diversion, since the first lines had been running around my head and, down the rabbit hole, the rest had to follow ... The Waste Land T S Eliot I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring…
Continue reading ➞ April is the cruellest month ….
Now isn't this a rather delightful flower, with long mauve outer tepals and paler, twisted staminoids giving a rather full, almost double effect. Followed by equally dramatic seed heads, this Swedish introduction has long-lasting appeal and would start to climb through roses from mid-spring. Easy to prune (just a tidy up really) and off it…
Continue reading ➞ Clematis macropetala Jan Lindmark
The Teddington Gardener 