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🌳Head of Horticulture & Landscape @theroyalparks
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Who can resist a wet Arbutus? Not a euphemism, but a particularly good, red barked Greek strawberry tree in a shower of rain! ❤️🌳🍓 #arbutus #arbutusandrachne #treesofinstagram #plantsofinstagram #cyprus🇨🇾 by @matt.pottage

The staggering sight of the widest tree in the world - the montezumae cypress, or Taxodium mucronatum which we couldn’t miss in Mexico. It’s reputed to be 2000 years old, and has a diameter of 14 metres and estimated weight of 636.107 tonnes! You cannot walk up to the tree (the right thing!) but it’s hard to get a sense of scale in photos - so note the people in the video clip for a sense of how massive it is! From a distance it’s somewhere between a giant head of broccoli and a coniferous weeping willow. Trees of this significance really have an atmosphere and presence to them. Long may it thrive! #taxodiummucronatum #taxodium #conifers #conifersofinstagram #treesofinstagram #remarkabletrees #ancienttrees #mexico by @matt.pottage

Finally got my succulent collection in one place in my tiny London garden! My parents downsizing in Yorkshire forced the relocation of these babies, many of which I’ve had for years and years! One can hardly call it a greenhouse, so it’s going to be the succulent case. It was one of those flat pack horrors that we decided to paint and ‘jazz up’ a little (🤪🫣🤩) my better half chose the colour scheme of peppermint, pink with gold gilding (if anyone thought my taste was out there, he does a step or three further…) and painting it in our tiny flat to assemble outside was no small event. Now armed with a little heater in case next winter is bad and also with lighting, so we can enjoy it from inside too. #greenhouse #succulents #plantsofinstagram #gardening #horticulture #plantparenthood #foliage #cactus by @matt.pottage

Whilst at the @theroyalparks Hyde Park, the Autumn Flower Garden shone and shows how much colour you can still have in your garden now!!! 🏵️

The reds and yellows of the leaves turning on pillars of Liquidambers, the sunshine of the kniphofias, the boldness of the chrysanthemums and so much more! 🍂

What a great space @matt.pottage !

#autumnvibes🍁 #flowersofinstagram #flowers #autumn #horticulture by @matt.pottage

Hyde Park in full buttery tones today! This year the London planes are going a wonderful clear yellow. The other taller trees are lindens - wonderful old examples. by @matt.pottage

One of the elements of the Horticulture Vision is creating key iconic horticultural moments 🌹

As Head of Horticulture and Landscape Strategy, Matthew Pottage explains further 🗣️

#TheRoyalParks #Horticulture by @matt.pottage

I’m proud to be a part of the founding team behind @hortistry - an initiative to pass on nursery and propagation skills, for free, to those in the industry. Last weekend, @heatherangrave shared knowledge on vegetative propagation, @propagator_dave_hortus_loci on seed collection and sowing while Keith Rushforth taught grafting. The @larchcottage team hosted us all magnificently. Our tutors had so much knowledge to share that’s built up through decades of experience and we are grateful for their generosity.
Listen to @peter_roger_thomas_jones interviewing @lmartinginns on what she enjoyed about the day. 🌱 by @matt.pottage

A unapologetic love affair with @larchcottage going on here (nope, no sponsorship) just hats off to a family business, running a brilliant nursery, with a staggering range of plants, beautiful display gardens (that have won RHS Partner Garden of the year TWICE) and set in the most beautifully curated spaces you’ve seen. Pay them a visit or mail order from them. We have to support legends like Jo and Peter who run this jewel of a business. 💚 by @matt.pottage

Head of Horticulture and Landscape Strategy, Matthew Pottage explains more about recently launched Horticulture Vision 🗣️

#TheRoyalParks #Horticulture by @matt.pottage

Loving my Chilean bellflower at the moment 🩷 I omitted to mention in the video it is scrambling up through an Aucuba, and is growing in a pot (the Lapageria not the Aucuba!) and I’ve had the Lapageria in this position for about 6 years. by @matt.pottage

I walked past one of the best London Bougainvillea today (that I know of anyway) on North End Road and it’s sure enjoyed the summer! It’s just a stones throw from a huge Norfolk Island Pine (second pic) on Star Road which also boasts a Yucca elephantipes. by @matt.pottage

Frothy asters, spires of Kniphofia ‘Happy Halloween’ and white fruited Callicarpa are just a few of the new faces in Hyde Park as part of the new Autumn Flower Garden scheme. Designed by @beth.of.fresh.air.gardens The Hyde Park Head Gardener, it’s the first of our new ‘Iconic Horticulture’ projects that we hope will stop people in their tracks, and engage with the power of plants. 💚 by @matt.pottage