The end of the year, with its grey(er) skies and its short days can be a difficult time to be a gardener, but occasionally a glorious sunny day comes along, a day to pick up the camera and wander round Beverley looking of planty inspiration. Under a clear blue sky the bees were buzzing, the…
Oh how I remember as a child standing in Davidson’s toy shop, surrounded by train sets, track, scenery and every imaginable type of toy. Now lets move on 50 years (can it really be that long) and the same feeling is with me when I visit my favourite plant buying places. You see the garden…
Just a few lines to say how much we all enjoyed your talk and pictures last Sunday. (The talk was Flowers, Foliage and Fat Rascals) There is always something new to learn, the background to the successful Harlow Carr was most interesting,and your glorious photos were inspiring. So thank you Doug for another great relaxed…
Wandering through Wisley recently I could not quite believe my eyes… Just click on the flower to be wafted to the Plant Enthusiast website, to find out just what this is…
I have been working on a little project over the last seven years. Well, I say working, but it would be fairer to say I have been thinking about a project for 7 years and have actually done something about it at last. It is a website designed to share my two loves, plants and…
and no, before you ask, I have not discovered fake tan! I have been put with my camera today looking for stunning flowers for a talk that I am working on for Ladies Luncheon Clubs. I was looking for plants that passed the WOW! test, and so headed out to Harlow Carr Gardens at Harrogate.…
I am taking advantage of the dull start to the day to go through some of my plant photographs to update my talk on Great Gardens. The problem is that there are so many different gardens to choose from! However looking through some of my photos from Keukenhof, I am shocked to discover it is…
That is of course Fremontedendron Tequila Sunrise (although the other type of Tequila Sunrise is perfectly acceptable as well) It was bred at Junkers Nursery where they crossed a rich orange form of Fremontodendron californicum with the large flowered bright yellow Fremontodendron ‘Pacific Sunset’ to produce “Tequila Sunrise” The result is a wonderful plant with distinctly orange coloured flowers. Given…
Today was spent with my trusty camera in the walled garden at Floors castle in Kelso. The herbaceous borders were alive with bumblebees. Here are some of my favourites,.. They may make it into my revised Snuffles and Tweets talks…
When this Gardening Club Speaker is on holiday he makes the long and perilous journey to start preparing for a new talk, by revisiting his childhood haunts. Doug Stewart was born in Scotland and for many years lived in the Moray Firth in a wee fishing village called Banff. As for the new talk, here…