Friday, February 13, 2009

Pettiti gardens





Gerti\'s garten

Gerti\'s garten


Asim Shah posted a photo:

yellow


Mountain-flowers

Flowerring.gif
flower cicle - Flowerring.gif




Blue water lily of Cambodia - Siem Reap. Free wallpaper 1600x1200px.
In album Lotus flower photo - Lotus blossom images - Lotus pond photos

beetography

beetography's photo

Pyracantha berries in Ben Lomond, CA USA

pollen-flowers posted a photo

DSCN0436.jpg
our new marquee range - DSCN0436.jpg



FLOWER.jpg
Blue Flower - FLOWER.jpg



Keywords:



blue_flowers.gif
Flower - blue_flowers.gif


Robert Nyman
Like, flowers

Like, flowers
Best in show was awarded to Matthew Soper of Hampshire Carnivorous Plants and he was delighted. carnivorous_300x150.jpg"This is a very special year, not only because of this award at Tatton Park but it means we have won ten consecutive golds at Chelsea, ten at Hampton Court, ten at BBC Gardeners' World Live and now ten at Tatton Park and best in show. I couldn't be more pleased, it's fantastic!" Well done to Matthew. I couldn't mention the floral marquee again without letting you know how Medwyn Williams got on. Well, his gold medal record is as unblemished as his prize winning vegetables; another gold for Medwyn and an unbroken record. And to top it off the sun is shining! I'm really not used to this at a flower show, I might have to go and have a lie down. In the sun. With an ice cream perhaps...

Circle Yellow, And Won't Be Boring To See It, This Flower Photo Almost Few Month Becomes My Favorite Wallpaper...


3rose.gif
Flowers - 3rose.gif


From Savanna

The total size of this dwarf lotus blossom array is about the length of my index finger! Just to giv e you an idea about how tiny this mini lotus flower is.
In album Lotus flower photo - Lotus blossom images - Lotus pond photos
Info from:

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Contemporary garden door





The back to back gardens are a unique feature of the flower show at Tatton Park and they are arranged in groups of four all over the showground, what I like about this is that as I walk around the show I stumble across a square of gardens and keep seeing ones I haven't seen before, also you can get a really good look at them because they're nicely spread out. Out of 27 back to back gardens at the show, five were awarded the coveted gold medal, best in show went to Reaseheath Alumni with '5 a day with hidden play' a garden dedicated to growing and eating plenty of fruit and veg. bees_300x150.jpg 'A garden for bees' (Gold) designed by Ness Botanic Gardens highlights the importance of our buzzy little friends. It's beautiful too and more than dispells the myth that wildlife gardening has to be wild and woolly. 'Butterfly Journey' (Silver-gilt) is another wildlife friendly garden at the show. butterfly_300x150.jpgIt's packed with the sort of plants we could all try to grow more of, to attract native butterfly species into our gardens. I noticed a fair amount of black in the back to back gardens, 'The back to basics garden' uses black to dramatic effect as a backdrop and in the planting with two stunning Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy' and a generous sprinkling of Cosmos astrosanguineus, another garden which features this plant heavily is 'Urban retreat' (Silver) which also uses black as a backdrop but mixes acid greens through the dark flowers and foliage, a great combo. suburban_oasis_300x150.jpg 'Reflection' (Silver) uses colour but it's much more gentle here. The decking and fencing is stained a soft grey and is set off by touches of galvanised metal used as edging and in the form of poles used throughout the garden as a suggestion of a boundary. These double up as plant supports too, this is an idea I might well take away with me... scented_wall_300x150.jpg A garden that addresses a very common problem is 'The scented walled garden' (Silver) and it speaks volumes that I had a good long look at the garden, admired it, made notes, took a photograph and still had not realised that it had been designed with wheelchair users in mind, it proves the point that a garden when well designed can fit a specific brief and be gorgeous too.
Info from:

Meanings behind color of roses




atheana
DCF 1.0

DCF 1.0

FLOWER.jpg
FLOWER.jpg


Flowers_and_more_flowers_by_Kattvin.jpg
flower - Flowers_and_more_flowers_by_Kattvin.jpg



Crocus - the first flowers of spring 2008
Roraima mountain

pollen-flowers posted a photo

natalie2.jpg
vintage garden roses - natalie2.jpg




Mountain-flowers

Flower.jpg
Parrot flowers - Flower.jpg


atheana

atheana's photo
MaryGolde
Manzanita flower

Crocus - the first flowers of spring 2008

White flowers with blurred background

White flowers with blurred background


Asim Shah posted a photo:

pretty



Flower

Crocus - the first flowers of spring 2008

Asim Shah posted a photo:

yellow



Winter Berries

retfdggffgdffd.jpg
Flowers - retfdggffgdffd.jpg


Robert Nyman
Like, flowers

Like, flowers

pollen-flowers posted a photo

022-5.jpg
cake flowers by pollen - 022-5.jpg



Lotus pond on the way to floating village Siem Reap. Beautiful large lotus ponds in the neighborhood of Tonle Sap. Clean lush green water vegetation surrounding the beauty of Cambodia lotus.
In album Lotus flower photo - Lotus blossom images - Lotus pond photos

pollen-flowers posted a photo

DSCN0425.jpg
6-2-09 Buxted Park - DSCN0425.jpg



Hmm, I think a little flowerbed reshuffle is on the cards when I get home or possibly even flowerbed creation. I might have been suffering from the gardeners' affliction of my eyes being bigger than my garden. The car looked like a mobile greenhouse on the way back down the M6 but I bet we weren't the only car on the motorway adorned with foliage. Clematis x aromatica and C. flammula mysteriously found their way into my jute shopping bag, along with a really pretty Nepeta govaniana that I'll have to sneak into the back of a border. I find that yellow flowers divide gardeners in the same way as the variegated/non variegated debate but I can't resist yellow. I don't mind if it's a perfect sunshine yellow, wholesome and cheery or an acid greeny yellow, I'm quite happy with anything in between. The N. govaniana has delicate pale, lemony yellow flowers and is perfection in plant form. Lobelia tupa is a plant that I have been hankering after for a long time and now I am the proud owner of one. Carol Klein warned me about its hallucinogenic properties when she spied it my bag. Everyday's a school day at these shows... A tiny little blackcurrant sage completed my purchases, Salvia microphylla var. microphylla I couldn't resist its tiny little magenta pink flowers and scented foliage, I know that it'll thrive in my garden and it was a bargain, that's my excuse! tortoise_200x200.jpgOne item I would have loved to have brought home with me was this chap. My soon-to-be-husband and I have a little Russian tortoise called Claude so I am very fond of these slightly grumpy shelled creatures. Even though Claude has an uncanny habit of homing in and munching on any plant that I have struggled to grow or is very rare or special, I don't know how he does it! On second thoughts perhaps a stone version is a brilliant idea...
Info from: