Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Camellia japonica Desire – a semi-double camellia photographed today and a classy customer with a centre in warm shades of ivory and ice cream – while just a couple of days ago, she was more wholly shell-pink and decidedly frosty. The edges of the formally arranged petals are blushed pink, giving a beautiful bi-colour effect.…
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Garden Centres and nurseries are beginning to fill up with violas and pansies and with a little TLC, they can be flowering right through until spring next year. Violas are, despite their diminutive size and dainty appearance, tough little cookies, more so than the larger flowered pansies, and can stand pretty much anything the British…
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Rose Centre Stage - beautiful, scented ground cover rose Now this is a diminutive rose, rising barely to 8 inches tall but spreading out to 3 feet. I seem to recall that it has the scent of cloves? It would look great spilling over a terracotta container - in fact, I saw a technique at…
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The Teddington Gardener 