Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
This is something I started in February of last year, when rain filled a huge metal container, a vast pedestal bowl with ornate handles that originally had it's home in the Bank of Rome in Italy, somewhere (one of a pair). Too much water to drain easily, I floated Hellebores on the surface of the…
Continue reading ➞ Floating Flowers from Petersham Nurseries
We have really enjoyed floating all manner of seasonal flowers in this wide, shallow and beautifully scrolled bronze bowl, which we began in February. Then it was a huge brass urn from the Bank of Rome (it was one of a pair, one since sold, the other, available...) but we swapped to the lower, pedestal-less…
Well, there are two standard Munstead Wood Roses, one standard Rose Ballerina, another standard Lady Emma Hamilton, oh and Desdemona, another standard - shrub roses Vanessa Bell and The Poet's Wife, a half barrel of Erigeron karvinskianus, a pot of Campanula Pink Octopus, Alliums (Mont Blanc maybe), three large pots of Pelargoniums (zonal, ivy-leaved, scented…
More from my Twitter account and once again, just the pictures to look at. It's late and there's another busy day tomorrow .....
A light dusting of snow in the woods around Ham, though at home in Teddington there was enough for a serious game of snowballs between the children heading to school. (below) The churchyard at St. Peter's Church by Petersham Nurseries. While the Cutting Garden, while not exactly deep and crisp and even, had a wintery…
Continue reading ➞ What did I say about February? Tricky already…. A Snow/No Snow day
If you go down to the woods today... specifically the woods beneath Battleston Hill at RHS Wisley, there are gems to be found - double, double double hellebores, spots and speckles, rainbow colours - big bold clumps too. Very happy plants. The season continues for hellebores - I think I'll sign off now and see…
Continue reading ➞ Fantastical hellebores at RHS Wisley
Harvington Hybrids - beautiful creations, which come in a variety of single and double forms - spotted, speckled, ruffled, plain, moody and angelic - you might buy one first, then another and so begins a lifetime's obsession! ttp://www.hughnunn.co.uk/HarvingtonHellebores.asp http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardenprojects/8390232/Welcome-to-the-bright-world-of-Hugh-Nunn.html Welcome to the bright world of Hugh Nunn Hugh Nunn’s life’s work has been to breed…
Continue reading ➞ Harvington Hybrids – Hellebores of distinction
Just two simple pictures today - most forms of Hellebore really get into their stride in very early Spring - and some continue long into Summer. In the vanguard are these delightful pure white forms of Helleborus niger, the Christmas Rose. Plenty of time for the rich ruffles of plum, chocolate and slate that come…
Continue reading ➞ Christmas Rose – Helleborus niger
A delightful afternoon at the RHS London Plant & Design Show, with hellebores, snowdrops, iris and all manner of plants for the spring garden shown off in typically fine form by the exhibitors. Mike Parks was there for books (very glad I took a rucksack), Implementations with their copper gardening tools (I am saying nothing..),…
Continue reading ➞ RHS London Plant & Design Show 2013
The Teddington Gardener 