Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A visit to a couple of nurseries today, including the Wyevale offers at Syon Park and Osterley and some lovely finds - with a promise to return for more, particularly at Syon Park where there is a large and varied seasonal discount section including shrubs, herbaceous and a myriad climbers. Quite happy too, brandishing my…
Continue reading ➞ After a little shopping, time for some concentrated planning…
All ready for a new planting of roses - Iceberg all - later this autumn. The bed is a little shaded both by the aspect and the overhanging ornamental cherry tree and the client is a fan of the near-perpetually blooming floribunda. If it is good enough for the American Ambassador's residence in Regent's park…
Continue reading ➞ A new bed of roses…
Time to tidy up the planting in this garden yesterday, trimming the herbaceous planting (geraneums, nepeta, aconitum, alchemilla mollis) and shrubs (box topiary and Viburnum tinus standard, roses) and giving the lawn a spiral cut. The sun shone brightly too. The front garden, redesigned and planted earlier this year, has matured well though I neglected…
Continue reading ➞ Strawberry fields forever – an update on my Twickenham garden project
and my summer containers, barely a month planted up - some large terracotta pots and about 8 smaller, though still sizeable, Chelsea planters in complimentary colours. and a shallow bowl of house leeks, Sempervivens, in flower...
I saw these huge aquilegias at a garden centre yesterday - Virginia and Vermont - rather beautiful but prefer my Blue Barlows... A busy day yesterday, working in two of my gardens in Strawberry Hill. The first, occupied by further planting out in the newly created front garden borders and new container displays. In traditional…
Just on my doorstep, a bright sparky tulip to set me on my way - and amid a street full of blossom, something a little darker than the usual bubble-gum pinks many Cherries adopt - And on to my first job, a local garden with a lawn more moss than grass - a fine, deep…
A Mediterranean Town Garden in Kew Another full day and progress is being made, though I think a hot bath is needed now for sore muscles! Pretty much all of the plants have found a home - and thankfully the soil is quite workable - stony, but compliant. Just a few specimens to plant tomorrow,…
Continue reading ➞ A Mediterranean Town Garden begins to shape up…
My garden project in Roehampton Late summer coming and there is quite a subdued palette - so I have added the kniphofia I've been photographing a lot recently (Mango Popsicle) to the mix - it will look great with the golden grasses, pop against the pink of the rose Harlow Carr, and sing against the…
Continue reading ➞ My Roehampton Garden
The Teddington Gardener 