Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A few days at Petersham Nurseries this week and with it, a cycle ride across Teddington Lock in the morning sunshine, ahead of days enjoying a rather fine Indian Summer as Autumn slides into technicolor view - with mist rising from the River Thames and adding a little mystery to Ham Fields While the cycle…
British grown cut flowers at Petersham Nurseries this week - Cornish Anemones, Tulips, Ranunculus in mulberry shades, Woodstock Hyacinths - with Kokedama cyclamens hyacinths and other delights for the lunchtime table... A few pictures to follow, as I have been rather busy, Christmas and wotnot, visiting family Up North, and these pages have been blank…
No, I haven't taken to canoeing home but I was cycling along the towpath towards Teddington this evening - and stopped to take these photographs, upriver and into the setting sun. Lovely.
Hellebore x ericsmithii Winter Sunshine is a bushy, clump forming hellebore, flowering for a long period in early spring. Creamy white flowers age with green tints through to a mellow pink, and all the colours seem to blend very well together, nothing muddy about the transitions either. Lots of flowers, though again, spaced enough apart…
Morning and evening on the River Thames at Isleworth - two images sandwiching a beautifully balmy, clear-blue-sky day. A few more days like these, please...
The Teddington Gardener 