Skip to content

Susan Rushton

Celebrating gardens, photography and a creative life

  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Extras
    • Photo Gallery
    • Browse
    • Privacy and Cookies
    • Copyright

Tag: wicker

Posted on June 13, 2019March 4, 2020

Delphinium Peacock

Wicker peacock with tail made from pink, blue and cream delphiniums
Flower show fun: a wicker peacock with delphiniums for tail feathers

Not a title I was expecting to write, but I had to share this snippet from one of the nurseries taking part in the RHS Chatsworth Flower Show. This peacock was (metaphorically) strutting its stuff as part of the silver-gilt winning display of elatum delphiniums by Home Farm Plants of Covington. Continue reading “Delphinium Peacock”

Posted on August 30, 2015December 28, 2018

Weekly Photo Challenge: wicker family

Wicker family

The weekly photo challenge asks us to photograph something from three different angles. You’ll not be too surprised to learn that I only managed two shots of this wicker installation at the Chorley Flower Show (yes, you read that correctly) before my eye drifted off to the flowers in the background.  Continue reading “Weekly Photo Challenge: wicker family”

Follow Susan Rushton on WordPress.com

Thanks for stopping by

  • 913,348 hits

Search this blog

Click on tags to explore

  • American gardens
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Birds
  • Blogging Challenges
  • Colourful
  • Cottage garden plants
  • Darwen
  • English gardens
  • English Roses
  • Floral
  • Flower of the Day
  • Flowers
  • Flower shows
  • Garden art
  • Garden design
  • Gardens
  • Hellebores
  • iPhoneography
  • Lancashire
  • Leaves
  • Macro
  • Mississippi
  • Nature
  • Plants
  • Popular
  • Quirky
  • RHS
  • Rosa
  • Rose
  • Roses
  • Sculpture
  • Stone
  • Street art
  • Trees
  • Wildflowers
  • Winter
  • Yard art

Recommended posts

Picture of traditional house and overstuffed courtyard garden
Cothay Manor's Courtyard Garden
Picture of rosette shaped English Rose
Festival of Roses at RHS Rosemoor

Search posts by category

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

The small print

Privacy and cookies
Copyright information

Perennial Favourites

  • Great Companion Plants For a Cottage Garden: Geraniums
  • Flower Show Trends: White and Chalky Pastel Palette
  • English Rose Gallery: Rosa ‘Darcey Bussell’
  • Chihuly’s Creative Combinations of Glass Art with Flowers
Follow Susan Rushton on WordPress.com

Search this site

Privacy and cookies

© 2014-24 | Susan Rushton | All rights reserved

  • Link to my Instagram account
  • Link to my Pinterest account
  • Link to my Twitter account
  • Link to my Flickr account
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Susan Rushton
    • Join 3,407 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Susan Rushton
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...