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19th century painting of Barcelonnette (c) La Sapiniére

19th century painting of Barcelonnette (c) La Sapiniére

Jean-Yves Gilg14 June 201514 June 2015

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Some views in Regent’s Park instantly transport you out into another world outside London. This is one of my favourites: the busy southern end of Queen Mary’s Gardens, with visitors moving between the rose garden and the Japanese garden, but pause for a moment and look across the nature reserve at the end of the lake, and here in front of you is a piece of the countryside. It’s especially evocative at the moment, with the magnolias in bloom, the dry reeds, and the twisted willow coming into leaf against a slate-grey sky.

More Scilla, sunbathing in the breeze in St John’s Lodge gardens this morning.

Blue agave, green agave, very blue Matisse-inspired agave (or maybe YKB agave?) - this weekend linocut printing effort, starring one of the blue agaves from the Mediterranean garden in Regent’s Park.

The vivid blue zing of Scilla siberica, in a large pot, among Ophiopogon nigrescens under slowly unfurling hellebores.

Five-plant challenge, part 2: sunny border. Amelanchier, rosemary, cistus, deschampsia, santolina.

A pink froth abuzz with bees is what Prunus x yedoensis looks like right now. A deciduous tree with arching branches and growing to about 12m x 8m, it is covered in pale-white to pinkish-white flowers in early spring. The pink-tinged buds emerge in late winter, before the leaves open.

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