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A late-September taste of the gardens at RHS Wisley

Categories annuals, Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Autumn garden, Bedding, Clematis, Climbing plants, colour, conifers, container gardening, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, Dry Garden, evergreen perennial, Exotic, Fragrant plants, Fruit Trees, Garden Design, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Japanese Maples (Acers), late summer border, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, RHS WIsley, Roses, Seasonal colour, soft fruit, Tropical, Wisteria, Woodland GardenLeave a Comment on A late-September taste of the gardens at RHS Wisley

A mid-week, late morning, late September tour of the RHS Gardens at Wisley. Blue skies peppered liberally with white clouds (today was a brighter, warmer clearer-skies day than yesterday, but probably overbright for my photographic skills so here we are ...) It is still quite definitely late summer, rather than full-on Autumn. Very few of…

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A snapshot from the RHS Gardens at Wisley

Categories annuals, Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Climbing plants, colour, conifers, Cottage Garden, Cutting Garden, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, Dry Garden, Exotic, Flower Shows, Fragrant plants, Friends, Fruit Trees, Garden Design, herbaceous, Lawn Care, Open to the public, Orchids, Ornamental trees, Plants for a shady garden?, plants for roses, RHS WIsley, Roses, Seasonal colour, shade, soft fruit, Summer garden, Tropical, Vegetables, Water gardening, White GardenLeave a Comment on A snapshot from the RHS Gardens at Wisley

With a friend visiting from Melbourne and cool, cloudy weather, an opportunity to explore RHS Wisley and with 20 Plant Societies - Delphiniums and Cacti, Hostas and Bonsai, Pitcher Plants, Heathers, Vegetables, Dahlias and more - no better excuse to spend three hours in these varied landscapes. We explored the Cottage Garden - gorgeous planting,…

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Back to the UK – a little tour of RHS Wisley. A real taste of Autumn

Categories annuals, Architectural Plants, Autumn garden, Climbing plants, Dahlias, Fruit Trees, Garden Design, Grasses, herbaceous, House plants, Hydrangea, Orchids, Organic Gardening, Ornamental trees, RHS WIsley, Seasonal colour, Seeds, Trees, Trees for smaller gardens, TropicalLeave a Comment on Back to the UK – a little tour of RHS Wisley. A real taste of Autumn

A free afternoon (washing done, a trip to Sainsbury's to follow) and a quick drive out to the RHS gardens at Wisley - blue skies and sunshine, alas not continuing into the weekend - but so much to see as I wandered past the lake to the Glasshouse Borders and South African Meadow, up through…

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A return visit and a more leisurely tour of RHS Wisley

Categories Architectural Plants, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, late summer border, Open to the public, RHS WIsley, Seasonal colour, Summer garden, Trees for smaller gardens, White Garden, Woodland GardenLeave a Comment on A return visit and a more leisurely tour of RHS Wisley

A return visit to the gardens at RHS Wisley, in the brightest of sunshine, to take a more leisurely walk than I had time for last week - and to stroll through the orchards, Glasshouse borders and seven acre wood. Hugely busy as you might expect on the eve of a Bank Holiday weekend but…

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Catching up on an end-of-October, very autumnal excursion through the gardens at RHS Wisley – Wild Woods and still Waters, Glasshouse Borders, Arboretum & Orchards

Categories Autumn garden, Fruit Trees, Grasses, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Japanese Maples (Acers), Open to the public, Ornamental trees, RHS WIsley, Seasonal colour, Woodland Garden1 Comment on Catching up on an end-of-October, very autumnal excursion through the gardens at RHS Wisley – Wild Woods and still Waters, Glasshouse Borders, Arboretum & Orchards

Well this is all very well and good but where are the words? the captions? the bon-mots and folderols? Adopting a habit of many fellow horticultural bloggers, this is Wordless Wednesday - that mid-week point when there is still so much to do and less time than you thought you had, so pictures and just…

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Follow me as I tour the gardens at RHS Wisley – grasses and bananas, the Glasshouse (tropics and desert) and dry borders, fruit fields and a fragrant rose garden …

Categories Architectural Plants, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, Dry Garden, Fragrant plants, Fruit Trees, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Kitchen Garden, late summer border, Mediterranean Garden, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, plants for roses, RHS WIsley, Roses, Seasonal colour, Shrubs, soft fruit, Trees for smaller gardens, Tropical, Wild Food/Foraging, Woodland Garden2 Comments on Follow me as I tour the gardens at RHS Wisley – grasses and bananas, the Glasshouse (tropics and desert) and dry borders, fruit fields and a fragrant rose garden …

You've walked with me from the entrance at RHS Wisley through to the grass borders, across to the tropical border with towering bananas and cannas and past the dogwood collection (with willows and rubus) which are green green green at the moment but in winter are a forest of ruby, gold, scarlet, black and bone…

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All at sea with Miscanthus – the Glasshouse Borders at RHS Wisley

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A rather blustery day yesterday at the RHS flagship gardens at Wisley and the Glasshouse borders were taking a battering. The Miscanthus outside the Glasshouse, large beds anchored by golden Beech monoliths and circling flat-topped islands of Sarcococca, became a seething maelstrom of dry-gold, sometimes illuminated and back-lit by shafts of sunlight. In moments of…

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Dodging the showers for a kaleidoscope of flower and fruit – roses, camellias, hellebores, hollies, decorative leaf, bark and seedheads

Categories Acid-loving plants, Architectural Plants, Autumn garden, Camellias, dark foliage plants, David Austin roses, Dry Garden, Fragrant plants, Grasses, Hellebore, herbaceous, jobs to do in ..., Open to the public, Ornamental trees, RHS WIsley, Roses, Seasonal colour, Seeds, Shrubs, Tropical, Winter Garden1 Comment on Dodging the showers for a kaleidoscope of flower and fruit – roses, camellias, hellebores, hollies, decorative leaf, bark and seedheads

The roses too continue to put on a good show, with some near perfect blooms - and other joys - I'm hoping the rain will stop so I can get in an afew hours in my  own garden this afternoon - there are dahlias to lift and a venerable banana to wrap up before the…

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Luxuriating in decay – the Glasshouse Borders at RHS Wisley

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The Glasshouse Borders at RHS Wisley There is much to recommend these borders - the long double beds running down from the Fruit Mount to the Lake and running in concentric, linking arcs around the reflecting mirror of water and bounding the Glasshouse. Add a clear sky and low slanting sun, at the end of…

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