Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Aconitum Bicolor (below) From here, we leave the Family Beds borders and step into the Rock Garden (bypassing the superb Salvia Borders are there is still a long way to go before they look at their best - October at least) First, this extravagant show of seedheads which at first I took for Pulsatilla...…
Continue reading ➞ Q… K for Kew – an hour through the woodland, family beds and rock garden…
This long pergola with brick pillars and timber beams is clothed with some beautifully trained rambling and climbing roses. Beautiful monsters like Rosa filipes Kiftsgate ought to swamp the entire structure and much else besides but with the love and careful treatment these specimens are given, a multitude of flowers hug the cross beams and…
Continuing through Kew Gardens, after revisiting the hallowed Magnolias and calling into the Davies Alpine House... the daffodils will be making great swathes across the grassland soon enough and there is a great variety too. The crocus have gone from around the Victoria Gate entrance now, just tufts of grassy leaves, though I think I…
Geraneum phaeum (above) - small, dark, richly colouted flower heads held in a haze above chevron'd foliage. Ideal for shady spots. Scilla peruviana (above) - last seen in the Alpine House at RHS Wisley - here it is in amongst the peonies at Kew The Japanese Pagoda Tree (below), well supported - Wild Garlic (above…
and finally, the shop - orchid mania due to the extravaganza going on in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
The Teddington Gardener 