Tag: Salvia Royal Bumble

I’m singing in the rain/ Just singing in the rain/ What a glorious feelin’ I’m happy again/ I’m laughing at clouds/ So dark up above/ The sun’s in my heart/ And I’m ready for … roses, dahlias, beautiful perennials

Categories Architectural Plants, Climbing plants, Dahlias, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Petersham Nurseries, plants for roses, Roses, Seasonal colourLeave a Comment on I’m singing in the rain/ Just singing in the rain/ What a glorious feelin’ I’m happy again/ I’m laughing at clouds/ So dark up above/ The sun’s in my heart/ And I’m ready for … roses, dahlias, beautiful perennials

Enough rain today to satisfy Dr Foster, on his way to Gloucester - but here at Petersham, it made some rather beautiful plants even more beautiful - roses of course, the first of the dahlias (and my apologies for not noting their names - next time I'll look at the Cutting  Garden Plan), and a…

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C – for colour, colour and just a little more glorious colour…

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A little colour, from the benches of Petersham Nurseries ... Below, Alstroemeria Inticacha Sunshine Little Miss Tara and Alstroemeria Little Miss Sophie, Little  Miss Emily

Exciting Redhead seeks dynamic partner for fun and friendship, maybe more?

Categories container gardening, Grasses, late summer border, Mediterranean GardenLeave a Comment on Exciting Redhead seeks dynamic partner for fun and friendship, maybe more?

Royal Bumble is a shrubby salvia with intense, dimunitive, cherry-red flowers and fragrant leaves, flowering from August through to the frosts, and teamed up here with the fine feathery stems of the grass Stipa tenuissima - wonderful, wispy, pale yellow-green leaves topped with fluffy plumes of silver-green flowers, maturing to blonde-buff. This versatile deciduous grass…

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