The Garden House (Devon, England)
The destinations are beginning to blur but looking at the tour guide booklet, I see that we are now in Plymouth. Today, we visited two gardens designed by Keith Wiley. The first is The Garden House , where Wiley worked as Head Gardener for 25 years (from 1978-2003). The 10-acre estate was purchased in the 1940s by former Eton schoolmaster Lionel Fortescue and his wife Katherine. It was formerly home to the vicars of Buckland Monachronum. The Fortescue's renovated the gardens and ran a market garden business and raised cattle. The remains of some of the original buildings in the vicarage still stand in the garden and serve as a romantic backdrop in the Walled Garden - I loved the way they had massed ferns together. Just stunning! Surrounding the walled garden and venturing out away from the house are more naturalistic plantings - Today, the head gardener is Nick Haworth, who was previously head gardener at Greenway , which we visited earlier. Keith Wiley lef...
Oh how wonderful. It looks like a pretty one too, with that dark center. Soon for us, soon.
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Wow!! I am jealous!! I did see the crocus sticking it's head out of the ground this weekend here. But with the tempatures in the low teens every morning it will take them a while to come out. Thanks for sharing and reminding me what spring looks like.
ReplyDeleteI am jealous, but I think mine are about two weeks from blooming.. I can't wait. I have spring fever bad!!!
ReplyDeleteOurs are only about a half inch out of the ground at this point. Ihope we are done with the really cold weather at this point.
ReplyDeleteDaffodils are my favorite, Phillip. That's a pretty one, too. Are you having an early spring there ?
ReplyDeleteWow! Must be great to be in Alabama! It'll be weeks before daffodils in Ohio!
ReplyDeleteYour Florence garden is way ahead of my Lexington, KY. garden. All I have right now are Eranthis hymalis, Snowdrops, and Bear Claw Helebores. I envy you your longer growing season.
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