Wisteria in Peckham Rye Park

Wisteria at the Sexby Garden, Peckham Rye Park
The wisteria pergola in the Sexby Garden - May 2024

One of my favourite places in London is Hampstead's Pergola and Hill Garden, which is wonderful at any time of year, but particularly pretty when the climbers, such as roses and wisteria, are in bloom in late spring and early summer. It was this place that made me love a good wisteria pergola. It took me almost another 20 years to find the wisteria pergola in Peckham Rye Park's Sexby Garden, South London. Its location probably the reason why - South London just takes me longer to get to, so I don't go there a lot.

This is definitely a place I'd missed out on. The abundance of wisteria here isn't rivalled anywhere else in London - the whole pergola is covered by it, and then there's more. Besides the wisteria, the Sexby Garden is a pretty little old-fashioned garden.

On a sunny May day, the wisteria has been blooming for some time and its petals are already everywhere. Its beautiful scent is everywhere. Wisteria, everywhere. It doesn't get better than this.

Wisteria at the Sexby Garden, Peckham Rye Park
The wisteria pergola with a bench in the background - May 2024


Wisteria at the Sexby Garden, Peckham Rye Park
Sexby Garden (and more wisteria) seen from the pergola - May 2024


Wisteria at the Sexby Garden, Peckham Rye Park
Looking up at the gazebo's wisteria roof - May 2024


Wisteria at the Sexby Garden, Peckham Rye Park
Wisteria in the Sexby Garden - May 2024


Wisteria at the Sexby Garden, Peckham Rye Park
The Sexby Garden's pergola - May 2024


Wisteria at the Sexby Garden, Peckham Rye Park
Looking from the pergola at the ornamental pond in Sexby Garden - May 2024


For more photos of the wisteria in Peckham Rye Park's Sexby Garden, see my Flickr photo album.

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