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  • Wisley's new Rose Garden now under construction.

    Blog post by Jim Gardiner on 09 Mar 2009

    Last Monday, 2nd March, work started on our exciting new rose garden development. Regular visitors will have noticed us clearing and preparing Weather Hill recently, and the information boards outlining our new garden. The Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden, sponsored by Witan Investment Trust, is going to have... Read more..

  • Ways to play with roses at Wisley this June

    Blog post by Jim Gardiner on 09 Jun 2009

    There's never a dull moment at Wisley, despite the weather. June is a fabulous month to enjoy the colour, fragrance and beauty of roses. The Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden is progressing well, with levels in and paths taking shape. But, for this year, no roses (although there are some in the borders at the... Read more..

  • How to mow and how to sow a meadow

    Blog post by Jim Gardiner on 19 Aug 2009

    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..

  • Late autumn tidy up at Wisley

    Blog post by Jim Gardiner on 09 Nov 2009

    In last week's sunny weather, and this week's chill, the garden teams have been busy tidying the place ready for the cold season to come. The fine turf has been scarified, aerated and top dressed; the square columns of hornbeam have been carefully pruned back; oak leaves are raked up off the... Read more..

  • Hyrbid musk rose 'Penelope' grown as a hedge in the Jubilee Rose Garden

    Photo uploaded by Jim Gardiner on 09 Jun 2009

    A series of higly scented rose hedges along the central axis of the Jubilee Rose Garden, with 'Penelope' in the foreground. Photo: Sara Draycott Read more..

  • "What's going on here?"

    Photo uploaded by Jim Gardiner on 09 Mar 2009

    Visitors reading one of the information signs detailing the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden, sponsored by Witan Investment Trust. Photo: Sara Draycott Read more..

  • Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden desgin by Robert Myers

    Photo uploaded by Jim Gardiner on 09 Mar 2009

    Robert Myers' vision for the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden, sponsored by Witan Investment Trust, on Weather Hill, Wisley. Read more..

  • Hybrid Musk Rose 'Buff Beauty'

    Photo uploaded by Jim Gardiner on 09 Jun 2009

    Hybrid musk rose 'Buff Beauty' growing freely in the centre of the Country Garden at Wisley Photo: Sara Draycott Read more..

  • Rosa 'Prosperity' with Vivian Birley, a garden volunteer.

    Photo uploaded by Jim Gardiner on 09 Jun 2009

    Volunteer Vivian Birley beside a hegde-grown hybrid musk rose 'Prosperity' in the Jubilee Rose Garden at Wisley. Photo: Sara Draycott Read more..

  • Weather Hill Hedge

    Photo uploaded by Jim Gardiner on 10 Dec 2008

    Photo: Mike Sleigh Read more..