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…
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…
A few of my houseplants, dotted throughout the conservatory, kitchen, sitting room, bedrooms and bathrooms and all with their own particular requirements for sunshine, shade, indirect but bright light, humidity and watering regime. Plenty of room for more I think though .... Many of the pots are Burmese, though I should correctly say from Myanmar.…
Continue reading ➞ A few houseplants (Practise what you preach…)
The Garden Shop at Petersham Nurseries is filled with houseplants, whose homes hail from all over the world, together with seeds and tools, pots and gardening equipment and in the blessed rain yesterday, was my home for the day. In the rare moments between torrents, I had a wander through the rest of the nursery…
Continue reading ➞ On Home Ground – a little peak at Petersham Nurseries
A little indulgent, this, so many photos from this series of floral arrangements created by our talented florist Noriko Choy with excellent support from Jane Scott Flowers. This was the day after the actual event (a wedding at Petersham Nurseries), so not in situ, but still looking fine. I thought it would make a good…
Continue reading ➞ More Dahlias from Petersham Nurseries – a lot of floristry going on ….
A few stowaways at the end of the gallery but Dahlias all the way otherwise, all in bloom in the Cutting Garden at Petersham Gardens Nurseries. The brain-child of the gardening team headed up by Rosie Bines and at the moment - and for the months ahead until the first frost, a miracle of floral…
Continue reading ➞ Dahlias at Petersham Nurseries
Petersham Nurseries have donated plants, time and a considerable amount of compost (I know, I carried it ...) to plan, prepare and plant up three new stone troughs - horse troughs effectively - at three prominent sites within the local community. All part of Britain in Bloom and building on the success Ham and Petersham…
Continue reading ➞ Ham and Petersham in Bloom / Britain in Bloom and Petersham Nurseries
Evening sunshine in the gardens of Petersham House, preparations ongoing for the Charity Open Day last Sunday. A little tardy in getting the pictures online, sorry about that. A rather dated laptop and a flaky wi-fi signal have been conspiring against me! On the day itself, a bright blue sunny morning so I caught up…
Continue reading ➞ Petersham House Gardens Charity Open Day
Ten gardens, ten private passions, ten stories - all on show for Petersham Open Gardens, an event every two years where private gardens showcase their beauty and skills (and skulls in some gardens), for charitable purposes. And given the footfall today, the charity-benefitting coffers will be full to overflowing. Congratulations folk, one and all. I…
Continue reading ➞ Petersham Open Garden 2018 – all the pictures!
The Teddington Gardener 