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Petersham House Gardens – formal gardens, generous borders and a vibrant Cutting Garden

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After a cycle ride along the towpath and the Thames sparkling in the sunshine, and nearly being late for taking so many photographs, a look in the Kitchen Garden first, which was the vegetable garden but has been co-opted into an additional Cutting Garden, as well as having the peony beds, Hellebores, many old roses…

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A play with the camera first thing this morning, before the crowds, with a few at the end of the day, with the longer shadows. A cycle in along the river this morning and again on the way home, quite delightful. Hundreds of visitors for the gardens, four hundred? five hundred?, enjoying the double borders…

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Petersham House Gardens National Garden Scheme Open Day

Categories Cutting Garden, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, Fruit Trees, Garden Design, General comment, Hellebore, herbaceous, House plants, Indoor gardening, Kitchen Garden, Lawn Care, Open to the public, Organic Gardening, Ornamental trees, Petersham Nurseries, Seasonal colour, shade, Shrubs, spring flowering, Spring Garden, Vegetables, Wildlife gardening, Woodland Garden1 Comment on Petersham House Gardens National Garden Scheme Open Day

A little bit of repetition in these images, but I am dithering about editing them and can't decide exactly which I prefer, so you're getting pretty much them all! A beautiful sunshiny spring morning, after a night of stormy electric rain, and everything after the warmth of the last week - and the weeks of…

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Petersham House – my first look at the gardens

Categories Art in the landscape, Bulbs, Garden Design, General comment, herbaceous, Open to the public, Petersham Nurseries, Roses, spring flowering, Spring GardenLeave a Comment on Petersham House – my first look at the gardens

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…

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