Tag: Fragrant Flowers

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered – by these colourful, beguilingly fragrant Witch Hazels at RHS Wisley

Categories Abstract Photography, Architectural Plants, Fragrant plants, General comment, RHS WIsley, Trees for smaller gardens, Winter Garden, witch hazel, Woodland Garden1 Comment on Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered – by these colourful, beguilingly fragrant Witch Hazels at RHS Wisley

A fine day yesterday, after that miserably wet weekend but still, having a day off, a chance to head over to the RHS gardens at Wisley. My mission: to stop by the Alpine House, take in a few snowdrops, inhale my first fragrant dose of Daphne bholua, bag the first of the Hellebores and of…

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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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