Skip to content

The Mindful Gardener

The sensory pleasures and earthy delights of gardening.

Home
Contact
About Me (and mindfulness)
Bright Border
Rose garden
Cutting Patch
Tulips
Peonies
Roses
Dahlias
Musings on Life
Little Pops of Wonder
Privacy Policy

Contact

Name(required)

Email(required)

Comment(required)

©2018 Alison Battye. All rights reserved.

Follow The Mindful Gardener on WordPress.com

Recent Posts

The rose that smells of apple tart July 20, 2019
Full Blast July 6, 2019
Tuscany Superb: The Most Romantic Rose of All June 29, 2019
Tickled Pink June 22, 2019
Soft Border June 15, 2019
Layers of Loveliness June 8, 2019
Mouth-watering June 1, 2019
Yoga for Gardeners May 27, 2019
Inner Light May 25, 2019
Easy Plants for the Garden Path May 22, 2019

Blog Stats

90,179 hits

Archives

July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018

Search for:

Categories

Alison Battye is on Instagram

On ‘The Mindful Gardener’ blog today: the David Austin English rose ‘Lady of Shalott’. What gives me most delight about ‘Lady of Shalott’ is the scent. My David Austin book describes it as smelling like ‘apple strudel’. I would modify this. It is more subtle than apple strudel. It is more like the finest, most delicate French apple tart. With the thinnest, crispiest base, and apples sliced translucent and thin, just caramelised on top, and with a hint of apricot glaze. Can you smell that? #davidaustinroses #davidaustinrose #davidaustin #englishrose #englishroses #ladyofshalottrose #englishrosegarden #cottagegarden #rosegarden #instagardener #instagardenlover #gardening #gardencolour #scentedgarden #roses #gardenroses #scentedroses

Today on The Mindful Gardener blog: ‘Full Blast’. The bright border is full-to-bursting with great mounding humps and foliage and flowers shooting up and out. All the mounds have joined together and are enjoying one anothers’ company, standing cheek-by-jowl, as if at a rock concert. It is a festival of colour and texture. #gardensofinstagram #gardensofinsta #instagardeners #instagardening #colourpop #colourcombination #englishgardens #mixedborder #herbaceousborder #colourblast #englishroses

On the blog this morning: The Most Romantic Rose of All, ‘Tuscany Superb’. If I had to choose just one Gallica rose, then ‘Tuscany Superb’ would be it. No other old rose combines health, vigour, neat growth habit, lush foliage, deep, rich velvety flowers and heavenly scent, like this rose. #englishrosegarden #oldroses #rosegarden #plantingcombinations #romanticgardens

Dianthus barbatus ‘Auricula-eyed Mixed’. With a little sherbet sparkle of dew. #englishgarden #englishgardens #cottagegarden #dianthus #dianthusbarbatus #scentedgarden

Peony ‘Nellie Shaylor’. #peonies #easyplants #flowers🌸 #flowerstagram #instablooms

On the blog today:’Tickled Pink’. I don’t think of myself as a particularly girly girl, and throughout my life I have almost avoided pink. However, when I look around my rose garden, I see pink everywhere, and yes, I am tickled pink. #englishroses #englishrose #englishrosegarden #englishrosegardens #davidaustinroses #englishgarden #englishgardens #cottagegardenstyle #roses #boscobelrose

Follow Blog via Email

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

Join 916 other followers

Blog at WordPress.com.