Roses, roses, roses and a long, long (rose-clothed) Pergola at Kew Gardens… galleries here and some moving pictures!

This long pergola with brick pillars and timber beams is clothed with some beautifully trained rambling and climbing roses. Beautiful monsters like Rosa filipes Kiftsgate ought to swamp the entire structure and much else besides but with the love and careful treatment these specimens are given, a multitude of flowers hug the cross beams and…

A view from Petersham Nurseries – hot sun, blue skies and a wander through perennials, roses and the Cutting Garden

And a look at a few of the Aquilegias we have... Hot, hot, hot, today, sun and blue skies over this part of Arcadia, and here - a glimpse of some of the plants and floral displays that caught my eye today. The Cutting Garden seems to be quadrupling in flower-power every week and this…