One of the highlights of my week is cycling up to the
Raworth Garden on Saturday mornings to carry out my gardening duties, at the
glorious Twickenham garden that I have previously posted about here. Inexplicably,
I am yet to post any highlights from the garden, but during a blisteringly busy
day today I was able to snatch a handful of floral images and so it is now time
to record some of the Raworth glory! Tomorrow evening (6pm-8pm) the garden is
opening to the public for the annual National Garden Scheme Open Day. The
weather is set fair, the garden is looking wonderful and I am quite certain it
will be a dashed good evening!
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| Early summer glory in the Sink Garden |
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| Thalictrum haze! |
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| The privet hedges at the front of the property are a prominent feature, pruned once a fortnight to encourage tiny foliage and an elegance not normally associated with privet hedging |
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| Fresh clippery in the Knot Garden |
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| Cotoneaster procumbens ‘Queen of Carpets’ provides a step edging in the Sunken Garden |
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| Papaver orientale ‘Cedric Morris’ is one of the larger-flowered poppies used in the Main Border |
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| Jenny buys many white foxgloves so we are unsure of this cultivar, but it may well be Digitalis purpurea ‘Snow Thimble’ |
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| More detail of P. ‘Cedric Morris’! |
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| The acid yellow delight of Smyrnium perfoliatum |
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| Silene fimbriata is known as the Fringed Campion, and although a tiny bit of a thug is an excellent specimen for the deep borders on account of it tolerating shade and bearing these incredible white blooms |
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| Amazingly, a Monarch butterfly landed in the border while I was edging the lawn! How it got here from Mexico remains a mystery. Nomadic devils |
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| The Raworth cat, Benny, is a good egg |
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| Nap time! |
