Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Ah, well, you've got me - one huge gallery of images and barely a note to cover the 'who, what, why, where and when' of it all - The 'where'will be at Kew and Wisley and a few points in between, including those deliciously cool crocus on my own front step, delicately rain-dropped and rather…
A gallery only - well I say 'only' - there is much to delight and much that is both beautiful and welcome in the garden. More and ever more colour to lift the spirits with so much more to come - and so I caution - take a pause, enjoy the season, these moments -…
Magnolia campbellii (above and below) A chill hour spent in Kew Gardens but mightily impressed with the Magnolias - all I went to see and I confess I was not optimistic about seeing so much in flower, a delightfully grand show. Such a glorious sugar confection of pinks and white! I had been thinking we…
Continue reading ➞ Magnolias – A grand display at Kew …. @kewgardens #springatkew #magnoliawatch
The bluebells are out at Wisley, littering the woodland floor with cyan blue - I was thinking just how much it would cost - in time and money - for us gardeners to recreate the scene when Nature seems to manage quite happily by herself. So much of the gardens at Wisley are tended and…
Continue reading ➞ If you go down to the Bluebell woods…
Aquilegia flabellata var. pumila 'Atlantis' (Dwarf fan-shaped columbine 'Atlantis') A short (30cm) aquilegia with these very appealing bi-coloured blooms, with short spurs and glaucous foliage. I'm much happier with this plant than with the State Series aquilegias I saw last spring - big plants , OK, but flowers on steroids, not for me. I'm sure…
Continue reading ➞ Aquilegia flabellata var. pumila ‘Atlantis’, if you please
I have a feeling this was the coral bark maple, Acer Sanko-Kaku - but then it is a quite mature shrub and not more than 4'tall, so that might rule it out. 'Corralinum' has the right stem, but the first flush of leaves are shrimp pink... I'll be looking out my copy of Vertrees 'Japanese…
Continue reading ➞ Ruby and Gold – but which maple is it?
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
Look up! These are, for the most part, big trees in the landscape, tall, towering forms with blossoms in crystalline white, glacial and very probably played by Tilda Swinton in the movie - but there are elsewhere, blushes of pink too, still cool but not so icy and with one, a definite warm, deep-rose. All…
Continue reading ➞ Magnolias – a New Ice Age at The Savill Garden
The Teddington Gardener 