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  September at Wisley: stimulation for your mind and garden.

  Jim Gardiner on 04 Sep 2009 at 11:05 AM

  It's your last chance to book a place on our Perennial Seeding Workshop on Thursday 10th September. This promises to be a fantastic day for learning how to create your own perennial prairie meadow , much like ours on the western side of the Glasshouse that has looked wonderful for much of the summer... Read More...

  Comments: 0 Tags: sculpture, Science, fuchsia, autumn, Wisley, cyclamen, meadow, perennial, james hitchmough, seeding, RHS, flower show, september, gardenden, praire, workshop
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  How to mow and how to sow a meadow

  Jim Gardiner on 19 Aug 2009 at 02:26 PM

  What a beautiful day it is today. Glorious sun and blue sky, and Wisley looks fantastic. I think the sunflowers on the Trials Field would agree, maybe thinking they're in Tuscany... if sunflowers could think! We've flowers all over, and the Top Terrace bedding is really tall now, with the cosmos... Read More...

  Comments: 1 Tags: trials, seed sowing, Alpine, top terrace, arboretum, Wisley, garden, rose garden, summer, prairie, meadow, perennial, august, cut, woody, james hitchmough, mow, seeding, trials field, sow, witan, RHS, mulch, hay
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  Come see Wisley's wonderful Missouri meadow

  Jim Gardiner on 01 Jul 2009 at 04:08 PM

  It's truly summer now here at Wisley. In July the garden looks wonderful. We have our Armed Forces Day flag prominently positioned on the Conifer Lawn, and the sweet peas and dahlia bed (where the Subtropical Borders usually are) are flowering well. Day by day the self-sown annuals that form this... Read More...

  Comments: 0 Tags: subtropical border, Glasshouse landscape, conifer lawn, fruit field, hitchmough, glasshouse garden, prairie, meadow, perennial, armed forces day, cornfield, dahlia, sweet pea