Tag: Cutting Garden

A Petersham Flower Show – we had snow last week and now this – blue skies, sunshine and a bigger, brighter truly floriferous floral parade

Categories Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, Climbing plants, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, Fragrant plants, General comment, herbaceous, Orchids, Petersham Nurseries, plants for roses, Propagation, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Summer gardenLeave a Comment on A Petersham Flower Show – we had snow last week and now this – blue skies, sunshine and a bigger, brighter truly floriferous floral parade

Another bright and sunny day, breezy at times but absolutely feeling like summer. Starting off this morning in my garden, beneath the horse-chestnut tree now decked with white floral candles, my own tulip displays and then off to Petersham Nurseries. Plants upon plants upon plants everywhere - exactly as it should be. The Cutting Garden…

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Impressions from Petersham Nurseries

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A rather large gallery, this, clearly, cataloguing a day at Petersham Nurseries on Saturday - starting with the walk down the lane, past St. Peter's Church Yard and Petersham Meadows and then into the Nurseries themselves. Plenty of images are from the long Cutting Garden, which at the moment is a symphony of Tulips, Fritillaria…

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A Petersham Nurseries Gallery – a feast of roses & perennials and a closer look at the Cutting Garden

Categories Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, Climbing plants, colour, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Open to the public, Petersham Nurseries, plants for roses, Roses, Seasonal colour, Seeds, Summer garden1 Comment on A Petersham Nurseries Gallery – a feast of roses & perennials and a closer look at the Cutting Garden

I arrived at Petersham Nurseries 45 minutes earlier than necessary with a view to taking a few pictures - and I am a speedy photographer - so here is a little gallery of plants that are both conveniently for sale or at home in the Cutting Garden (a practical resource for so much of the…

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What did I say about February? Tricky already…. A Snow/No Snow day

Categories Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, jobs to do in ..., Petersham Nurseries, Winter GardenLeave a Comment on What did I say about February? Tricky already…. A Snow/No Snow day

A light dusting of snow in the woods around Ham, though at home in Teddington there was enough for a serious game of snowballs between the children heading to school. (below) The churchyard at St. Peter's Church by Petersham Nurseries. While the Cutting Garden, while not exactly deep and crisp and even, had a wintery…

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Bitter, brisk, chilled, frigid, raw, cutting, biting, squally, gelid, blustery, frosty, piercing, icy and shivery – but a few days closer to Spring

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Galanthus nivalis - nothing common about this common snowdrop There's snow Up North and temperatures hereabouts are heading back down to near freezing. There was an icy wind gusting around the glasshouses at Petersham this afternoon though a wintry sun made a welcome but unheated appearance between some very driven bouts of rain. To buoy…

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Daphne odora Aureomarginata, Edgeworthia chrysantha, Double Primulas, Hellebores, Crocus and Almond Blossom – A Day in the Life….

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I am blessed with the scent of this beautiful plant - drifting across the nursery and Siren-like, it calls to me so that I can breathe in more of this delicious fragrance. Sweet, honeyed, hints of lily and jasmine, citrus, intense but not cloying. Fleeting too on the breeze, caught and then lost again. I…

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Fragrant Hyacinths, a Cutting Garden rich in promise and Thug, the Petersham Cat

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My day has been perfumed by these beautiful hyacinths - I have more at home, so the fragrance surrounds me even now. Heaven. Especially welcome given the chill, steady mizzling which I hope and believe will give way to something brighter, dryer, though colder, tomorrow. I bought more Hyacinth bulbs today, Gypsy Queen, in a…

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Black Cats for Black Friday – and a look at the Cutting Garden

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More feline company at the Nursery - very intense stares from this pair - watching with great interest as the Christmas Trees arrived. A Very Green Friday for us then and very glad not be in a scrum at some department store, battling for a 50" TV... The Cutting Garden meanwhile is settling into winter…

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Autumn Rose Care….

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The David Austin rose, Constance Spry, here, winding and spiralling around some birch posts forming a substantial wigwam/obelisk in the Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries. Looking forward to my rose-themed workshop tomorrow and hoping that the rain will have rained all it can overnight. A little sunshine would be very welcome!