West Dean Gardens Blog

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Meet the Gardeners
  • Volunteers
  • Walled Kitchen Garden – Before and After

Tag Archives: flowers

Looking Good – March
Looking Good / Spring

Looking Good – March

Posted on February 27, 2015 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

Did you see the naturalised bulbs in action at West Dean during February this year? If you missed the display poor you as it was a sight to gladden any heart. On sunny days, the gardens were bathed in a symphony of mauve, yellow and white as the bulb flowers opened their faces, creating a … Continue reading →

Wintersweet by Jane Perrone
Guest bloggers / Spring

Wintersweet by Jane Perrone

Posted on February 16, 2015 by West Dean Gardens • 2 Comments

Back in December I was absolutely convinced that my wintersweet (Chimonanthus), a shrub renowned for both its headily-scented winter flowers, and taking its own sweet time to getting around to flowering, was finally about to do the business this year. I tweeted: “After a careful search and google I can confirm there seems to be … Continue reading →

November at West Dean
Autumn / Looking Good

November at West Dean

Posted on November 5, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • 1 Comment

A dry September – the driest on record has been followed by a reasonably damp October (so my wish for rain was granted!) this year and I must say the recent weather has created perfect conditions for planting, of which we’ve been taking advantage. As I write we have yet to suffer a frost which … Continue reading →

Heating up in August
Looking Good / Summer

Heating up in August

Posted on August 6, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

Wow! What a difference warm weather makes to a garden! So far this summer the flower display in the cutting garden and on the borders in the Walled Garden is looking fantastic with the rudbeckia trial taking pride of place. Beneficial insects and butterflies are having a field day too. However lots of sun means … Continue reading →

West Dean Gardens – July 2014
Summer

West Dean Gardens – July 2014

Posted on August 6, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

June was a wonderful month for a garden visit to West Dean and July looks set to be the same. Plenty of sun filled days after the relentless winter rain have put a skip into the visitors step as they come along to enjoy all aspects of the gardens and there is certainly plenty here … Continue reading →

Hydrangeas
Flowering shrubs / Summer

Hydrangeas

Posted on July 23, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • 1 Comment

As the dog days of August approach and other flowering shrubs give up the ghost those stalwarts of the late summer border, the hydrangeas, come into their own. The common hydrangea, H. macrophylla, has spawned a huge range of varieties that divide neatly into two main types, the lacecaps and the Hortensias, or more descriptively … Continue reading →

Summer

West Dean Gardens – June 2014

Posted on June 9, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

Last winter’s rain has acted like rocket fuel to the gardens, there is fabulous growth on trees, shrubs and herbaceous perennials everywhere. As a result the early season wild flower display was floriferous in the extreme – always a glorious sight. Shortly it will be mown down (before it falls down!), however there will be … Continue reading →

Spring

The Chelsea ‘Chop’

Posted on May 27, 2014 by West Dean Gardens • Leave a comment

Chelsea week is the one time of the year that gardening dominates the airwaves and takes centre stage in the public’s mind which is slightly curious because as any “real” gardener knows gardens are an all year round obsession that occupies one’s thoughts and efforts for 52 weeks of the year . It is that … Continue reading →

Post navigation

My Tweets
Autumn at West Dean Gardens
Autumn at West Dean Gardens
West Dean Gardens night view
Autumn in the Arboretum
View through the arboretum, West Dean Gardens
The Potting Shed, West Dean Gardens
The Potting Shed, West Dean Gardens
West Dean Gardens backlit trees
Pumpkins and gourds, West Dean Gardens
Pumpkins and gourds, West Dean Gardens
Espalier in the orchards, Pyrus Communis 'Glou Morceau' West Dean Gardensens
Espalier in the orchards, Pyrus Communis ‘Glou Morceau’ West Dean Gardensens
The historic Apple Store at West Dean Gardens
The historic Apple Store at West Dean Gardens
Autumn walks through the arboretum
Autumn walks through the arboretum
West Dean Gardens, Cornus Kousa, Chinensis and Fagus, Sylvatica 'Heterophylla'
Storing onions, West Dean Gardens
Storing onions, West Dean Gardens
West Dean Gardens, Beech trees and leaves

Husband and wife gardening team, Jim Buckland & Sarah Wain have spent 22 years restoring and maintaining West Dean Gardens.

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 71 other followers

Categories

  • A to Z (6)
  • Apple Affair (1)
  • Arboretum (2)
  • Autumn (7)
  • Chilli Fiesta 2015 (16)
  • Flower borders (3)
  • Flowering shrubs (2)
  • Guest bloggers (5)
  • Hardy annuals (1)
  • Kitchen Garden (5)
  • Lawns (1)
  • Looking Good (15)
  • National Gardening Week (1)
  • Orchards (1)
  • Out & About (1)
  • Projects (2)
  • Spring (14)
  • Summer (9)
  • Victorian glasshouses (2)
  • Winter (7)

West Dean Instagram

No Instagram images were found.

Follow Jim on Twitter

My Tweets

#victorian glasshouses #awardwinning #victorianglasshouses #awardwinning #sunkengarden #pergola # haroldpeto # arboretum # springgarden # parkland # walledkitchengarden #WestDeanGardens Award Winning Walled Kitchen Garden Arboretum spring garden sunken garden arboretum chillies chilli fiesta flowers glasshouses jim buckland kitchen garden plants sarah wain spring garden victorian glasshouses walled gardens walled kitchen garden west dean west dean college west dean gardens west sussex

Follow Sarah on Twitter

My Tweets

Facebook

Facebook
Follow on WordPress.com

RSS – Subscribe to our posts

  • RSS - Posts
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • westdeangardens.wordpress.com
    • Join 71 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • westdeangardens.wordpress.com
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...