Isabella Plantation, Richmond Park – bare bones, a landscape settling down to sleep – but with promises for a Technicolor Spring….

7https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/richmond-park/richmond-park-attractions/isabella-plantation and if you haven't time to visit this season, make a Diary note for May 2015 - the show might look something like this....   https://teddingtongardener.com/2013/05/26/bashful-doc-dopey-grumpy-happy-sleepy-sneezy-and-bluebell/

Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy – and Bluebell

The Isabella Plantation is an ornamental woodland garden within Richmond Park and it is ablaze with colour at the moment with rhododendrons, azaleas and bluebells at their very best.Pink and orange, red and white, yellow and blue, yellow and orange, orange and blue, purple and red - hot clashes and cool combinations. Probably the best…

The return of something orange…

Don't worry, I'm sure it's just a phase. Indulging my delight in all things orange, with the return of the deciduous azalea, coming in to flower roundabouts now (yellows, reds, pinks, purples too, of course). The Grand Display may possibly a little later than in previous years, but time enough to plan a visit to…