Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A few images from April 2018 featuring the Cutting Garden and Petersham House Gardens and more specifically the bulbs planted in great parallel swathes in the working Cutting Garden and then more expansively throughout the gardens of the House itself. A memory-jogger for me, given my workshop on Spring Bulbs together but boy, has it…
The Gentlemen of Amateur Gardening and their Jubilee Souvenir I am thinking of the month ahead - May - and what jobs we gardener's can look forward to as the earth continues to tilt towards summer. I'm looking at a vaguely antiquarian book called The Gardener's Enquire Within, which seems to have something to do…
Continue reading ➞ The Gardener’s Enquire Within – Tasks and Interest for the month of May
Continuing through Kew Gardens, after revisiting the hallowed Magnolias and calling into the Davies Alpine House... the daffodils will be making great swathes across the grassland soon enough and there is a great variety too. The crocus have gone from around the Victoria Gate entrance now, just tufts of grassy leaves, though I think I…
I visited Standen at the beginning of April 2013 and took these photographs then. March, as I recall, had been a frozen tundra of a month with temperatures barely reaching about freezing day or night. The first daffodils were only just coming through, so different to the early Spring enjoyed last year. I am minded…
Continue reading ➞ Standen – A meeting with some Remarkable Espalier Apple Trees
Petersham House opened its gardens last Sunday (part of the National Garden Scheme) and this was my first opportunity to have a look around. I've glimpsed tree and blossom from behind high walls and hedges, and through the iron gates into the Kitchen Garden, but this was more like it! I'll let the photos do…
Continue reading ➞ Petersham House – my first look at the gardens
I know this is a little premature, but I'm readying myself for a new gardening related project and there is so much to plan - you might think the workload would be slowing down come September but there is still so much to do, in both the ornamental and kitchen garden - maintaining both, extending…
Continue reading ➞ Things to do in September…
The Teddington Gardener 