It certainly pays to make an early start, especially on such a bright and beautiful morning - and even more so when school holidays are upon us and Kew Gardens becomes a beautiful flower-filled playground and a great spot for a family picnic. For someone as bah-humbug as I about having unpopulated pictures - flowers…
Tag: spring
Throwing some light on shade
The Shade Garden in Spring and Early Summer Right Plant / Right Place Here are my cobbled-together notes from a recent workshop on shade gardening, highlighting the planting possibilities for those folk who are lucky enough to have a shady spot in their garden. There is a wide, wide - wide - range of…
April at Great Dixter, reprise, for a spring-flowering extravaganza and a lot of inspiration
These images were taken on a visit on the 20th April this year to the gardens at Great Dixter in East Sussex. I had been to the charming and gently planted King John's Nursery beforehand, and there is some memorable naturalizing of spring bulbs and primroses in the old orchard that is quite superlative. But…
Petersham House Gardens National Garden Scheme Open Day
A little bit of repetition in these images, but I am dithering about editing them and can't decide exactly which I prefer, so you're getting pretty much them all! A beautiful sunshiny spring morning, after a night of stormy electric rain, and everything after the warmth of the last week - and the weeks of…
Continue reading ➞ Petersham House Gardens National Garden Scheme Open Day
A technicolor Easter … Ranunculus and Streptocarpus for a bright and beautiful weekend –
A few Persian jewels for the Easter weekend, Ranunculus ... and a few Streptocarpus - and a couple of Aquilegias - Enjoy the Bank Holiday Weekend, whatever the weather ...
A floral flight of fantasy …
The Florist's Bench was crammed full to bursting with Spring loveliness - too good not to share! A kaleidoscope of colour, matched by fresh greens - magical. Credit to Abi Cooke.
I’m ready for my close-up – A macro lens at Petersham Nurseries in early May
A little blur of a tour of the Nurseries on a fine May day - stuffed full of plants inside and out and a day of bright welcome sunshine too. Captions and plant names to follow - rush rush!
A view from Kew – a blossomtastic Spring morning in these Royally Botanic Gardens
It certainly pays to make an early start, especially on such a bright and beautiful morning - and even more so when school holidays are upon us and Kew Gardens becomes a beautiful flower-filled playground and a great spot for a family picnic. For someone as bah-humbug as I about having unpopulated pictures - flowers…
Continue reading ➞ A view from Kew – a blossomtastic Spring morning in these Royally Botanic Gardens
April is the cruellest month ….
A poetic diversion, since the first lines had been running around my head and, down the rabbit hole, the rest had to follow ... The Waste Land T S Eliot I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring…