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Colour on a dull day, just not today: A banquet-kaleidoscope-smorgasbord-gallimaufry of early Spring colour and scent … (or Where’s Thug?)

Categories Abstract Photograpy, Acid-loving plants, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, Camellias, Climbing plants, colour, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, herbaceous, Japanese Maples (Acers), Magnolia, Ornamental trees, RHS WIsley, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Trees for smaller gardens, White Garden, Wildlife gardening, Winter Garden, Woodland GardenLeave a Comment on Colour on a dull day, just not today: A banquet-kaleidoscope-smorgasbord-gallimaufry of early Spring colour and scent … (or Where’s Thug?)

  Another look through the Teddington Gardener Archives, mid-March 2016, and as the title says, a jumble of images, woodland and glasshouse, Wisley and Kew and a welcome reminder of Thug, the Petersham Cat, still missed.   Ah, well, you've got me - one huge gallery of images and barely a note to cover the…

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Spring colour-bombs a riverside Nursery (can you guess which one?)

Categories Abstract Photography, Alpine, Architectural Plants, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Fragrant plants, General comment, Petersham Nurseries, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring GardenLeave a Comment on Spring colour-bombs a riverside Nursery (can you guess which one?)

Flowers inside and out, flowers everywhere -  and a few grateful bees to feast on the early Spring bounty. A kaleidoscope of colour, bright, bold, brash and beautiful but we forgive this extravagant generosity - nothing clashes in the garden at this time of year, as the new season unfolds in our gardens. It's welcome antidote…

Continue reading ➞ Spring colour-bombs a riverside Nursery (can you guess which one?)

A banquet-kaleidoscope-smorgasbord-gallimaufry of early Spring colour and scent … (or Where’s Thug?)

Categories Abstract Photograpy, Acid-loving plants, Alpine, Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, Camellias, Climbing plants, colour, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, herbaceous, Japanese Maples (Acers), Magnolia, Ornamental trees, RHS WIsley, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Trees for smaller gardens, White Garden, Wildlife gardening, Winter Garden, Woodland GardenLeave a Comment on A banquet-kaleidoscope-smorgasbord-gallimaufry of early Spring colour and scent … (or Where’s Thug?)

Ah, well, you've got me - one huge gallery of images and barely a note to cover the 'who, what, why, where and when' of it all - The 'where'will be at Kew and Wisley and a few points in between, including those deliciously cool crocus on my own front step, delicately rain-dropped and rather…

Continue reading ➞ A banquet-kaleidoscope-smorgasbord-gallimaufry of early Spring colour and scent … (or Where’s Thug?)

From a wet Thursday… poppies, wisteria, foxgloves & roses – and a blurred view across Petersham Meadows

Categories Fragrant plants, National Trust Gardens, Open to the public, Petersham Nurseries, Roses, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Wildlife gardening, WisteriaLeave a Comment on From a wet Thursday… poppies, wisteria, foxgloves & roses – and a blurred view across Petersham Meadows

Rain, rain and more rain, yesterday - persistent and accompanied by chill winds too. Considering the balmy temperatures of the previous day it was quite a shock to the system! It did, however, provide an opportunity for some picture taking with the advantage of some photogenic rain drops...