An unexpected bit of free time today and lo! A parking space by the Victoria Gate which meant I had to stop – and (first things first) smell the roses. Gertrude Jekyll, Stanwell Perpetual and Madame Isaac Pereire brought High Summer right back on a mostly overcast mid-November day. Soul food. From the Rose Garden, a walk took me through the leaf-strewn lawns to find the grove of Ginkgo trees (amazing) and over past the grass borders (equally amazing) to […]

Categories: Alpine, Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Autumn garden, Camellias, Christmas, Climbing plants, General comment, Grasses, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Roses, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, Woodland Garden • Tags: Alpine House, Alpine plants, Arbutus unedo var rubra, Autumn, Autumn crocus, Blue Tits, Camellia, Chilean Bell Flower, Claire Austin, Cornus alba Sibirica variegata, Cotinus obovatus, Cotnus obovatus, Crocus laevigatus, Crocus tournefortii, Davies Alpine House, Fatsia japonica flower, Flamingos, Geranium, gertrude jekyll, Ginkgo, Grace, grass borders, Kew Gardens, Lachenalia corymbosa, Lachenalis paucifolia, Lady of Shalott, Lapageria rosea, Madame Butterfly, Madame Isaac Pereire, Mary Rose, Miscanthus, Nerine humilis, Osmunda regalis, Oxalis horta Gothenburg, Pterocarya x rehderiana, Rosa acicularis, Rosa canina, Rosa elegantula Persetosa, Rosa gallica var officnalis, Rosa Madame Abel Chantenay, Rosa mulliganii, Rosa rubrotincta, Rosa rugosa Alba, Rosa rugosa Thunb, Rosa setipoda, Rosa virginiana, Rosa x hibernica, Rose du Roi, rose hips, roses, Skylark, Sophy's Rose, Stanwell Perpetual, Swamp Cypress, The Hive, Verbana bonariensis, Viburnum davidii, Weeping Beecg