Crookley in July

Posted in Uncategorized on August 5th, 2011 by admin — 219 Comments
beautiful climber in its third year

pandorea growing in the greenhouse

lilac pink salvias
lovely lilac pink salvia bought on painting trip to Hereford
geranium buxton blue
geranium buxton blue around a statue

Photos of Salvias in the greenhouse and garden

Posted in Uncategorized on September 5th, 2010 by admin — 333 Comments
Salvia fulgens

Salvia fulgens

salvia stormy seas and salvia waverley and diascia

salvia sagitata

salvia puberula

salvia patens blue angel1

salvia coccinea lady in red

salvia involucrata hadspen

salvia indigo spires

salvia guaranitica

salvia involucrata or splendens furry pink

salvia elegans pineapple sage

heptacodium

crocosmia and pink salvia in herb garden

salvia coccinea brenthurst

deep red dahlia

cuphea

cobaea scandens

crocosmia and pink salvia

climbing hector up the pawlonia

mother hen and chicks in herb garden in August

cat in tree

bird bath surrounded with daisies

urn with crocosmias, nicotiana sylvestris and lobelia tupa

Salvia fulgens

Salvia fulgens

salvia confertiflora

Posted in salvia on August 30th, 2010 by admin — 292 Comments

this lovely coral red salvia grows really well in the garden, upright grower, robust stems and good flowerer.

salvia guaranitica black and blue

Posted in salvia, Salvias, Uncategorized on August 30th, 2010 by admin — 265 Comments

flowers deep blue set in almost black calyses, a very showy plant, but flowering in the garden quite late on in the year found in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.

Salvia dorisiana

Posted in salvia on August 30th, 2010 by admin — 294 Comments

salvia dorisiana is a winter flowering opera rose coloured salvia, very beautiful, tender, good in cold greenhouse.

Photos of salvias in the garden and greenhouse

Posted in Uncategorized on February 14th, 2010 by admin — 260 Comments

Salvia fulgens

Salvia Darcyi

Salvia  Darcia flowering in the greenhouse, this salvia some times over winters here but I always have a plant in the greenhouse over the winter

salvia cacalifolia

salvia fulgens

salvia gesneriflora

Planting in the spring

Posted in Annuals, Poppies, shrubs on February 14th, 2010 by admin — 268 Comments

In the spring I like to plant helibores, and wysteria and anuals such as poppies

Spring Clear Up

Posted in Garden Calender on February 14th, 2010 by admin — 251 Comments

Tuesday in the garden with Clare, we had a very productive morning tyeing up the wisteria on the newly built pillar.  moving the eye-sore water butt next to the greenhouse and clearing away the leaves on the gravel garden.

We have already cut the leaves off the hellebores which are budding up nicely, some already out, Daphne is flowering, iris ungularis and snowdrops flowering and crocus just beginning to colour.  We sowed various salvia seeds , more sweet peas and schizanthus , digitalis.  I ordered flowering seeds from Chiltern seeds, tweedia, tithonis, lobelia vallida, browallia, mimulus, chiltern seeds 01229 581137. The auriculas in the greenhouse are looking a bit unhappy which is quite normal for this time of year, I will give them a feed of tomarite in a weeks time i.e. towards the end of February, and hope they will be flower for March 9th our opening.

Narcissus pseudonarcissus (daffodil)

Posted in Plant Index on January 3rd, 2010 by admin — 274 Comments

March

Posted in Garden Calender on January 3rd, 2010 by admin — 74 Comments