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Spring began to fizz at Sissinghurst Castle, a look back to 2015 – and the whole show will just get better and better…. @Sissinghurst NT #SpringWatching

Categories Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Bulbs, Garden Design, General comment, Magnolia, Open to the public, Sissinghurst Castle, spring flowering, Spring Garden3 Comments on Spring began to fizz at Sissinghurst Castle, a look back to 2015 – and the whole show will just get better and better…. @Sissinghurst NT #SpringWatching

The gates open at 11am sharp and I'm the first to hand in my Shilling token (the price Vita originally charged visitors) to the helpful attendants and I'm flying through, skirting the lawns in front of the Tower and into the woodland Delos garden, before hitting the White Garden (bare bones at this time of…

Continue reading ➞ Spring began to fizz at Sissinghurst Castle, a look back to 2015 – and the whole show will just get better and better…. @Sissinghurst NT #SpringWatching

Spring begins to fizz at Sissinghurst Castle – and the whole show will just get better and better…. @Sissinghurst NT #SpringWatching

Categories Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Bulbs, Garden Design, General comment, Magnolia, Open to the public, Sissinghurst Castle, spring flowering, Spring Garden2 Comments on Spring begins to fizz at Sissinghurst Castle – and the whole show will just get better and better…. @Sissinghurst NT #SpringWatching

The gates open at 11am sharp and I'm the first to hand in my Shilling token (the price Vita originally charged visitors) to the helpful attendants and I'm flying through, skirting the lawns in front of the Tower and into the woodland Delos garden, before hitting the White Garden (bare bones at this time of…

Continue reading ➞ Spring begins to fizz at Sissinghurst Castle – and the whole show will just get better and better…. @Sissinghurst NT #SpringWatching

February made me shiver….

Categories Alpine, Bedding, Bulbs, Camellias, Clematis, Dahlias, David Austin roses, Evergreen shrubs, Fragrant plants, Fruit Trees, Garden Design, General comment, Grasses, Hellebore, herbaceous, jobs to do in ..., Lawn Care, Pruning, Roses, Shrubs, Snowdrops (Galanthus), spring flowering, Spring Garden, Vegetables1 Comment on February made me shiver….

I am dreaming of Spring, mostly. There is a great deal to admire in February so I worry that we might wish the month away without appreciating what is looking - or giving - its best right now, or the quiet simplicity of our gardens stripped bare of all of the spring and summer fireworks…

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Delighting in a Petersham Spring Garden

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Today, at Petersham Nurseries: The Cutting Garden Spring bulbs scenting the air and with a palette of blue, white, lemon, palest pink, apricot, ruby and gold. Much more to come.. Meanwhile, Pear trees are blooming and it certainly feels like Spring Prunus subhirtella Fukubana, cherry blossom (below) Cheal's Weeping Cherry, Prunus Kiku-Shidare-Zakura (below) A beautifully…

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Chaenomeles – Japonica to you and me….

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Chaenomeles x hybrida, in pink This pink stand of Chaenomeles x hybrida, by the Pagoda at Kew Gardens today. Though I do not know what it is a hybrid of - Chaenomeles speciosa, in scarlet The scarlet Chaenomeles speciosa sits within the Japanese Landscape under the Chokushi-Mon and grabs the eye! The camellias are dropping…

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Plant Hunting in Teddington

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A gentle pavement expedition, a street safari, to see what the front gardens of this particular bit of Teddington might throw up, by way of Winter Interest. With a tide of concrete washing over so many front gardens, plants are losing out to car parking at an alarming rate, with consequences for wildlife, drainage/water runoff…

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Chokushi-Mon, a Japanese Garden at Kew

Categories Architectural Plants, evergreen perennial, Flowering Cherry, Garden Design, Grasses, Japanese Maples (Acers), Open to the public, Plants for a shady garden?, Rhododendron & Azalea, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Winter GardenLeave a Comment on Chokushi-Mon, a Japanese Garden at Kew

The Japanese Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Beautiful here in mid-winter, with sculpted box, evergreen waves of Liriope muscari, flowering Iris unguicularis, clipped Pachysandra terminalis, Cotoneaster and Callicarpa in berry, a few choice Chaenomeles flowers, beautifully spreading Winter Cherry - Prunus subhirtella Autumnalis, sunshine and raked gravel.   http://www.kew.org/heritage/places/japaneselandscape.html