Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
The Lion Garden The Lion Garden has been redesigned and the sculpture moved to create a focal point. Four long borders mingle shrub roses, including many English Roses, with herbaceous perennials, creating a wonderful contrast of colour, form, texture and scent. The borders are punctuated by magnificent standard roses, which add height and structure to…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – Chapter 5 from David Austin Roses – The Lion Garden
The Renaissance Garden The National Collection of English Roses is held in the gardens at Albrighton. The Renaissance Garden is perhaps the most beautiful of all the gardens, and is devoted to English Roses. These roses start flowering in late May and continue right through to the frosts of early winter. This lovely garden demonstrates…
A return through the Long Garden - the unusual feature of these photographs is of course the sunshine and blue skies - the Divine smiling on these roses and me, a humble if enthusiastically photographing acolyte ... The Long Garden The Long Garden forms the central core of the rose garden, with the other gardens…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – third helpings from David Austin Roses
Like I said, an Inventory ... The Victorian Walled Garden The Victorian Walled Garden is a formal garden made up of three circular borders, which diminish in width towards the centre. They are planted with English Roses and other repeat-flowering shrub roses. The focal point of the garden is the large central stone carving. Visitors can…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – Seconds from David Austin Roses
A first look at the Long Garden, mostly, at the eponymous gardens at Albrighton - just a short drive from our base near Shrewsbury and a beautiful, inspirational stop-over on our way to Woodstock. I realised of course today that I have effectively inventories the gardens, as I might once have done to a flat…
Continue reading ➞ Postcards from Shropshire – a first gallery from David Austin Roses at Albrighton
No, I'm surprisingly not a VIP guest on the David Austin Stand - can they please take note - but they had closed the exhibit for a bit of filming, so the Great Unwashed had to clear out and leave - leaving me with moments to capture an empty rose garden. Well almost empty, the…
David Austin Roses, one of Britain's great rose breeders, will launch three new varieties for 2017. Here's a sneak preview with grateful thanks to http://www.gardenandgreen.co.uk for the heads up ... (A quick internet search hasn't thrown this up anywhere else as yet, but trusting this is indeed a reliable source!) DAME JUDI DENCH - English…
Firstly a few from home this evening - I'm particularly pleased with the lilies in the front garden, wafting their intoxicating fragrance for weeks now - and the bright blue Campanula Blue Octopus, flowering for over a month. Then (below) more from my day at Petersham Nurseries. Plenty of colour as we move into midsummer…
Flower therapy, this. From Petersham Nurseries today. To quote from Cabaret - 'Leave your troubles outside, So- life is disappointing? Forget it! We have no troubles here! Here life is beautiful... ' After this you can go back to Brexit/Conservative Leadership/Chilcot Report/Euro 2016/24HourNews/Emails... 'What good's permitting some prophet of doom To wipe every smile away…
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