Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Petersham Nurseries turns 10 - and I'll be talking All Things Roses... Events 5th -8th June From the Petersham Nurseries website - Join our family celebrations, a festivity of ten years Petersham Nurseries turns 10 this year and in celebration, owners The Boglione Family will be hosting a long weekend of events, open to the…
Continue reading ➞ Petersham Nurseries – 10th Anniversary Events & Celebrations!
The roses at Petersham are giving up their treasures with new blooms every day - Old Roses with impeccable credentials and the new Aristocracy, courtesy of David Austin. Even on such a wet, nay traditional Bank Holiday Monday - there was fragrance too. No more can I ask...
What can I add to the sum of the coverage of this, the greatest flower show on earth? A few photographs (and by my standards, a very few). An impression of the event, distilled from a tour yesterday evening. A drop in the ocean really - a few gorgeous plants and planting combinations, a twist…
Continue reading ➞ A glance, gander and glimpse of Chelsea 2014
I think my visit to Mottisfont - to see their incomparable collection of Old Roses - might have to be soon if the Capsule Collection at Petersham is anything to go by. New roses are popping into flower every day, with an opportunity to make new friends amongst the names I haven't seen in bloom…
Continue reading ➞ Roses, all the way – and a piece of Chelsea Fringe at Petersham Nurseries
Claudio Bincoletto, chef, horticulturist and raconteur.. What Claudio brought with him from his own foraging trip... Omelette with hop shoots, garden nettle, calendula petals, campion.. and delicious! Satisfied customers...! We took a turn around the House Gardens to see what was edible there.. Rose petals for so many applications - candied, syrups, jams, ices, for…
Digitalis (Foxgloves) providing some excitement in these displays - as it does in the garden - with more spires and spikes provided by Salvia Caradonna and, just coming into flower, Aconitum napellus in white. Ceanothus (Californian Lilac) adds more blue to the mix, with bright orange bringing the scheme to life - this is Geum…
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
A quick scoot around the meandering paths that wind round the slopes of Battleston Hill in the RHS gardens at Wisley. I had a glimpse of what I might find in the Wild Garden, another part of the gardens there, when I visited earlier in the week and had less than an hour to explore…
Petersham's cat, Thug. Enjoying the morning sunshine, but not so warm and contented that he didn't try to give me just a little nip...
The Teddington Gardener 