Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
As promised - and be careful what you wish for in future - a grand gallery of roses captured yesterday in the riot of colour that is the Bowes Lyon Rose Garden at RHS Wisley in Surrey. The newer of two rose gardens, this features wide, broad and ascending (or descending) paths with generous steps,…
Two pieces here, very wordy (though by no means not all my words) first from the RHS Magazine, followed by a wander through their Pruning and Training Book. Quite a lot that you might need to know about pruning summer-flowering and repeat-flowering Old Roses, what I still call Hybrid Teas and Floribunda roses, Climbers and…
Continue reading ➞ Rose Pruning Masterclass – with a little help from my friends….
Well, a rose in the basket on the front of my bike - and a lot of smiles I encountered on the way home too. Tough little cookie, this rose - I don't think I lost a single petal and there was quite a headwind and more than a few jolts on the way. 1909…
Continue reading ➞ On my way home with Gruss an Aachen on the handlebars….
Wisteria floribunda Alba - near to the Duke's Garden within the larger Kew Gardens. We all know that Wisteria can clothe the front of a house with exceptional grace and beauty - and great vigour - elsewhere filling pergolas and arbours with colour and scent (and that reminds me that I am probably too late…
Hot Chocolate, Novelty Rose of the Year 2006 A cluster-flowered, floribunda rose with a quite unique colouring that is very difficult to capture - I know, I've photographed this rose dozens of times and this is the first time I have made a decent stab of it! Growing to 3'/90cm tall and a little less…
Continue reading ➞ Chocolate Fancy
"I'm ready for my close-up" Hannah Gordon Not I might add our favourite Scottish actress, but the weird and slightly alien landscape at the heart of this bi-colour floribunda that I have taken a recent shine to. A clean crystalline white with neatly cherry-red to pink flushing, picotee edge and a wavy ruffling of the…
Continue reading ➞ Hannah Gordon, up close…
If the rose is the King of Climbers, and Clematis, the Queen, what High Rank must the wisteria hold? Beautiful, fragrant & vigorous - in May and early June, it is surely unsurpassed for sheer Impact. The Laurels nursery, near Cranbrook in Kent, specialises in Wisteria (and birch) and featured in The Garden magazine recently…
The Teddington Gardener 