Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
A few images from April 2018 featuring the Cutting Garden and Petersham House Gardens and more specifically the bulbs planted in great parallel swathes in the working Cutting Garden and then more expansively throughout the gardens of the House itself. A memory-jogger for me, given my workshop on Spring Bulbs together but boy, has it…
We might just have stepped into September, but bulb planting - or at least bulb choosing time - is upon us. Certainly the best choice in the shops is now, even if you are going to delay planting up in the garden and in containers for a few weeks yet. Tulips really should be left…
Continue reading ➞ Thug, the Petersham cat, reminding us that is is bulb planting time…
A brief stop on the north side of Kew Green, to a terrace of charming and characterful houses. I missed the Wisteria the last time if memory serves and I am a couple of weeks early this time around - it is just beginning to emerge with hints of blue against the brickwork. The double…
Continue reading ➞ Kew Green – waiting for the Wisteria to flower…
Today, at Petersham Nurseries: The Cutting Garden Spring bulbs scenting the air and with a palette of blue, white, lemon, palest pink, apricot, ruby and gold. Much more to come.. Meanwhile, Pear trees are blooming and it certainly feels like Spring Prunus subhirtella Fukubana, cherry blossom (below) Cheal's Weeping Cherry, Prunus Kiku-Shidare-Zakura (below) A beautifully…
Continue reading ➞ Delighting in a Petersham Spring Garden
Despite the early appearance of poppies - and unexplained red hot pokers in full bloom - Spring is asserting itself with just the right kind of bulbs and blossom - a little photo-gallery so that we can appreciate Nature's Bounty But then what are these things doing in flower right now - a whole clump…
Continue reading ➞ Spring is springing… the right plants at the right time, this time
http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardens/Rosemoor/About-Rosemoor/Plant-of-the-month/April/Fritillaria-meleagris http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=814 A very helpful article from Sarah Raven in The Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/8009417/How-to-grow-fritillaries.html and from Monty Don - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/gardening/article-1259182/MONTY-DON-A-soggy-spring-drown-tulips-crocuses-daffodils-magnificent-snakeshead-fritillary-thrive-it.html Some like it wet: A soggy spring can drown tulips, crocuses and daffodils, but the snakeshead fritillary will thrive in it By Monty Don UPDATED: 22:30, 19 March 2010 Most spring bulbs do best in…
Continue reading ➞ Snake charmers – Fritillaria meleagris
Narcissus Bridal Crown A double creamy white and yellow narcissus with the most intense fragrance. One of the earliest doubles to flower, and perfect for forcing indoors. One vase will scent a whole room. Two vases might be one too many! It is a heady fragrance.
and finally, the shop - orchid mania due to the extravaganza going on in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
The Teddington Gardener 