Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Continuing the series of '15 Favourites', this time it is the turn of the houseplant. A veritable Jules Vernes 'around the world' tour, with tropical and desert dwellers from several continents, these are plants that we do our very best to accommodate in our homes, trying to give them an environment as close to their…
Continue reading ➞ 15 Favourites – Houseplants
A short late-afternoon, my-but-it-is-getting-dark-quickly-now tour of the Garden Shop at Petersham Nurseries. House plants with homes all over the world in one glasshouse, with golden autumn leaf, pumpkins and twinkly lights. Cacti and Succulent will be moving in here from Glasshouse Two as the nights become more chill. Seriously, we are quite serious about houseplants.…
The Garden Shop at Petersham Nurseries is filled with houseplants, whose homes hail from all over the world, together with seeds and tools, pots and gardening equipment and in the blessed rain yesterday, was my home for the day. In the rare moments between torrents, I had a wander through the rest of the nursery…
Continue reading ➞ On Home Ground – a little peak at Petersham Nurseries
Tender, tropical houseplants inside the Garden Shop and elsewhere, early perennials, bulbs, flowering shrubs and spring colour. A few, random, images from Petersham Nurseries last week. We've had glorious sunshine (well, yesterday at least), so expecting the Cutting Garden to be even more verdant, more colourful and probably about a foot taller too. We're about…
Continue reading ➞ In the Garden Shop & Cutting Garden at Petersham Nurseries …
Well I hadn't taken any photographs today, so sitting in my conservatory this evening, my thoughts turned to the collection of houseplants I share the space with - in this one room there are plenty of cactus - in a porcelain clamshell, a little catus garden and also my favourite white-studded Opuntia microdasys alba -…
Continue reading ➞ At home with a few house plants …
The Teddington Gardener 