Tag: Kew Gardens

The Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens – there be fearsome Dragons

August 7, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

The newly restored Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens, replete with fearsome dragons. Built in 1762, it was one of a series of oriental-inspired buildings smattered through these new gardens, though the only one to have stood the test of time. The dragons are beautiful, colourful, gilded and sparkling, and quite fearsome. On the lowest tier they are intricately carved from wood, 1.8m long, and one at least quite toothsome. Those on the upper levels have been 3D printed, but with […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, General comment, Hydrangea, late summer border, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Plants for a shady garden?, Rhododendron & Azalea, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, shade, Summer garden, Travel broadens the mind • Tags: Dragons, Great Pagoda, Japanese Garden, Kew Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Windsor Great Park, a breezy cycle ride, a little Polo, wildflower meadows, two monarchs on horseback, a lovely picnic and a look around the shop …

August 5, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

A most perfect afternoon, taking the bikes out to Windsor Great Park. Right around the lake, Virginia Water, stopping at the Old Post Office for a drink, watching the horses at Guards Polo grounds (my, the grass was green…) then on to the Copper Horse and the shade of a beautiful Oak tree for a picnic. Onwards past the lily pond and back to the Savill Garden and a mooch around the shop. The wildflower meadow flanking the structure quite […]

Categories: annuals, late summer border, Open to the public, Savill Garden, Summer garden, The Savill Garden, Woodland Garden • Tags: Copper Horse, cycling, Dragons, Kew Gardens, landscape, Oak, Pagoda, Picnic, Savill Garden, Virginia Water, Wildflower Meadows, Windsor, Windsor Great Park

A few hours at Kew Gardens – the newly re-opened Temperate House, Alliums on the Broadwalk, treetop walkway, the Hive, gorgeous Wisteria, a Rhododendron or three, and laburnum arches, waterlilies, the Davies Alpine House and Rock Garden, peonies galore, many remarkable trees, a Japanese landscape and the Pagoda … and much more-

May 15, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

If a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s a million. Kew Gardens today. Amazing, as ever –

Categories: Acid-loving plants, Alpine, annuals, Architectural Plants, Exotic, Garden Design, General comment, herbaceous, Indoor gardening, Mediterranean Garden, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Rhododendron & Azalea, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, shade, Shrubs, Trees, Trees for smaller gardens, Tropical, Water gardening, Wildlife gardening, Wisteria, Woodland Garden • Tags: broadwalk, Davies Alpine House, Kew Gardens, Lake, rhododendron, Rose Garden, Temperate House, Water Lily House, Wisteria, Xtrata walkway

A birthday treat to myself – a day trip to Thailand …

February 28, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

While the Beast from the East continues to freeze and snow lies deep and crisp and even on the ground, I thought today would be a good day to find warmer climes – by way of the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew – and explore the floral delights of Thailand. Their annual orchid extravaganza is on for just a few days more and while outside looked and certainly felt more arctic, inside it was a balmy few degrees closer […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, Climbing plants, Flower Shows, House plants, Indoor gardening, Open to the public, Orchids, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew • Tags: Kew Gardens, Orchids, Princess of Wales Conservatory, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

A little Kew Miscellany – everything else from a chill Tuesday in January (or Heraldic Beasts and where to find them)

January 12, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Just mopping up with the remainder of the photographs taken last week when I headed off to Kew Gardens, warmed up in the Princess of Wales Conservatory and then joined the ‘Meet the Experts’ tour talking all things Snowdrop. A random selection though I wish you could take in the delicious fragrance from the Chimonanthus and the two Sarcococcas – a heady rich, spicy mix. Finally, a closer look at the Heraldic Beast that line the parterre by the Palm […]

Categories: Climbing plants, Fragrant plants, General comment, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Winter Garden • Tags: Chimonthus praecox Grandiflorum, Detail of Drinking Fountain, Dry January, Edgworthia chrysantha, Grass Borders in January, Greyhound of Richmond, James Woodford OBE RA, Kew botanicals, Kew Gardens, Kew Gin, Lapageria rosea, Portland Stone, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Salvia Border in January, Sarcoccoca confusa, Sarcococca hookeriana var dignya Purple Stem, Temple of Aeolus, The Black Bull of Clarence, The Broad Walk, The Falcon of the Plantagenets, The Griffin of Edward III, The Lion of England, The Queen's Beasts, The Red Dragon of Wales, The Unicorn of Scotland, The White Horse of Hanover, The White Lion of Mortimer, The Yale of Beaufort, Viburnum x bodnantense

A ‘Meet the Experts Tour’at Kew Gardens – Snowdrops (Galanthophiles Rule OK) – and my first sighting of the newest species in the club, Galanthus trojanus

January 11, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

Such a treat, earlier this week, attending one of Kew Gardens’ Meet the Experts Tours. Every Tuesday throughout the year (or probably pretty much), you are delivered into the hands of one of their Experts for a private tour of one aspect of the work going on at Kew. This month they are talking everything snowdrops (it is Carnivorous plants next month – the link is at the end of the blog for further information). Small groups, 15 as a usual […]

Categories: Alpine, Autumn garden, General comment, Open to the public, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Snowdrops (Galanthus), Winter Garden • Tags: 21 species of Galanthus, Aaron Davis, Aaron P Davies, Aaron P Davis, Acis, Alpine Yard, Amyrrillidacea, Crocus sublimis, Cultivating snowdrops, Davies Alpine House, Galanthophile, Galanthus elwesii, Galanthus elwesii monostrictus, Galanthus elwesii Three Leaves, Galanthus elwesii var monostictus, Galanthus elwesii Yvonne Hay, Galanthus gracillis, Galanthus John Grey, Galanthus plicatus Florence Baker, Galanthus plicatus Wendy's Gold, Galanthus trojanus, Galanthus woronowii, galanthus., grwing snowdrops, iris reticulata North Star, Kew, Kew Gardens, Leucojum aestevum, Leucojum vernum, Meet the Experts, Meet the Experts tour Kew, most expensive snowdrop sold, Narcissus hispanicus, Narcissus romieuxii subsp. albidus, new galanthus species, new species of snowdrop, potting medium for snowdrops, Rock Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Snowflake, splitting snowdrops, Superintendent Roack Garden, taxonomy of snowdrops, The Genus Galanthus Aaron P Davis, Tom Freeth

Looking for a January Getaway? A tropical holiday? Try Kew Gardens

January 11, 2018 by The Teddington Gardener

A dull day, yesterday, with a chill wind and a fine mist of rain oftentimes so it was glorious to spend a little time inside the Princess of Wales Conservatory in Kew Gardens – plenty of humidity and generously warm temperatures and what a collection of plants in the tropical section here – orchids and other flowering plants of course, bold, glossy architectural leaves on all sides, carnivorous plants, bromeliads and Tillandsia (air plants) in flower and colourful climbers […]

Categories: Architectural Plants, General comment, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Tropical • Tags: bromeliads, Calanthe, Coffee, Dendrochilum uncatum, Dichorisandra thrysiflora, Ipomoea horsfallii var briggsii, Kew Gardens, Kew Gardens. Princess of Wales Conservatory, Nepenthes, Nepenthese truncata, Orchids, Pahiopediulum, Phrgagmipedium ainsworthii, Princess of Wales Conservatory, Royal Botanic Garden Kew, Tillandsia, Tropical Planting

Life in Death – Rebecca Louise Law at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens

November 4, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

A real treat to see this installation by Rebecca Louise Law. I’d read an article in the Kew subscribers magazine, and someone had mentioned it to me though I confess it had dropped from my immediate consciousness until yesterday and I veered across the lawns to the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. 375,000 flowers, preserved and threaded onto fine copper wire, these garlands hung from the ceiling of one of the galleries here – with a walkway through the […]

Categories: Abstract Photography, Art in the landscape, Autumn garden, Flower Shows, General comment, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew • Tags: Botanical Art, Kew Gardens, Life in Death, Marianne North, Rebecca Louise Law, Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art

A peek at the Grass Borders in Kew – a study in gold ….

November 4, 2017 by The Teddington Gardener

Just the pictures this time around – it is for the overall impact of these borders that I took the time to visit, rather than a label-by-label guide to naming of individual plants. I’m quite sure I’ve done that before and a quick search in these pages may provide some further elucidation. In the meantime, with the sun catching these contrasting bold shapes, evanescent forms and oh-so-tactile seed heads, enjoy!

Categories: Autumn garden, Grasses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew • Tags: Autumn Garden, grass borders, grasses, Kew Gardens

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