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In my favourite Alpine House – RHS Wisley in Technicolor

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  In the Alpine House at RHS Wisley, a kaleidoscope of colour (I know I've used that particular description on more than one occasion but it works for the rainbow of colour on display quite perfectly). And in the gallery below, from their Plant Centre, more Alpine and Rock Garden stars ... Just galleries this…

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Q… K for Kew – an hour through the woodland, family beds and rock garden…

Categories Architectural Plants, Autumn garden, Bedding, Dahlias, dark foliage plants, Dry Garden, evergreen perennial, Evergreen shrubs, Fragrant plants, General comment, Grasses, herbaceous, late summer border, Open to the public, Plants for a shady garden?, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Seasonal colour, Woodland Garden1 Comment on Q… K for Kew – an hour through the woodland, family beds and rock garden…

Aconitum Bicolor (below)   From here, we leave the Family Beds borders and step into the Rock Garden (bypassing the superb Salvia Borders are there is still a long way to go before they look at their best - October at least) First, this extravagant show of seedheads which at first I took for Pulsatilla...…

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Davies Alpine House at Kew Gardens – and the Rock Garden too – wandering through Kew today

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Continuing with my wanderings through Kew, leaving the Duke's Garden behind and passing the emerging grass borders, we head to the Davies Alpine House and the serpentine Rock Garden beyond. More peonies and iris, more intense colour and floral fireworks - though this last specimen, Viburnum macrocephalum Sterile is more of a giant snowball!