Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Isaac Newton's Apple Tree - a direct descented to that fêted tree I was going to wait until this unassuming little apple tree came into flower - soon - but couldn't wait. It's been given a feed (liquid seaweed) and a good water and we will wait and watch. For it is an Important Tree…
Continue reading ➞ Gravity (and in a Sandra Bullock way too…) Isaac Newton’s Apple Tree
The Wild Pear, Pyrus pyraster, blooming at Kew (above) Pyrus nivalis the Snow Pear, flowering in front of a group of Amelanchier (above) Amelanchier intermedia (above) Malus Laxton's Red (above and below) Malus Robert's Crab (above) Malus baccata Jackii (above) Malus halliana (above) Malus Laxton's Red (above) and the 'duck' in question... Crab-apples and wild…
Continue reading ➞ Cor blimey! luv-a-duck apples-and-pears…
A combination of recent warm weather, sunshine, light breezes and little rain combine to make the show of cherry blossom, just yesterday at Kew Gardens, beautiful. Crab-apples and wild pears, Amelanchier and the last of the magnolias were also in flower, but the cherries, by dint of the sheer exuberance of their display, won me…
Continue reading ➞ Hanami – my very own Cherry Blossom Festival in Kew Gardens
Look up! These are, for the most part, big trees in the landscape, tall, towering forms with blossoms in crystalline white, glacial and very probably played by Tilda Swinton in the movie - but there are elsewhere, blushes of pink too, still cool but not so icy and with one, a definite warm, deep-rose. All…
Continue reading ➞ Magnolias – a New Ice Age at The Savill Garden
The Orchid Festival at Kew ends this Sunday - 9th March - and if you can get there, it comes highly recommended. And it is at least 21 degrees centigrade in there, with a tropical soundtrack to boot. Gorgeous. http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/orchids/
Chaenomeles x hybrida, in pink This pink stand of Chaenomeles x hybrida, by the Pagoda at Kew Gardens today. Though I do not know what it is a hybrid of - Chaenomeles speciosa, in scarlet The scarlet Chaenomeles speciosa sits within the Japanese Landscape under the Chokushi-Mon and grabs the eye! The camellias are dropping…
Continue reading ➞ Chaenomeles – Japonica to you and me….
Orchids at Kew, in the Princess of Wales Conservatory. On until 9th March 2014 at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/whats-on/orchids/ I should be on commission!
and finally, the shop - orchid mania due to the extravaganza going on in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
A happy half an hour in the Davies Alpine House in Kew Gardens this afternoon. I had thought the selection of plants at Wisley - and their presentation in the traditional Alpine House with raised benches and terracotta pots sunk into sand - was my favourite display but then here we are at Kew, with…
Continue reading ➞ Big Love* from the Davies Alpine House at Kew
The Teddington Gardener 