Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A fine day yesterday, after that miserably wet weekend but still, having a day off, a chance to head over to the RHS gardens at Wisley. My mission: to stop by the Alpine House, take in a few snowdrops, inhale my first fragrant dose of Daphne bholua, bag the first of the Hellebores and of…
The woods of the Wild Garden, betwixt the Rock Garden, Alpine Meadow and Seven Acres (at RHS Wisley) were bright and fragrant with witch hazels, with names I had read about but not seen either on Battleston Hill nor at Kew. These delicate thread-like flowers are completely hardy and will thrive, unharmed by snow and…
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Rhododendrons in Isabella Plantation, in many shades of peach, apricot and orange. Marvellous. Very probably this one is called Orange Beauty. And it is.
The Teddington Gardener 