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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...
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My new article

I have an article in the April issue of Alabama Gardener. It is a garden profile of John and Lynn Ingwersen's garden in Killen, Alabama (just outside of Florence).

Here are a few photos that I took of their garden last year (some of these appear in the article, some don't) -








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  1. WayneMarch 27, 2008 at 2:32 AM

    Nice pics! You can tell a lot of work goes on in that yard.

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  2. Yolanda Elizabet HeuzenMarch 27, 2008 at 2:49 AM

    Great pics of a lovely garden. Congrats on getting an article published!

    Found your blog via Faire Garden.

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  3. GailMarch 27, 2008 at 6:42 AM

    Phillip,

    Are you a garden writer and librarian? Good photos, very fine garden.


    gail

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  4. Annie in AustinMarch 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM

    Congratulations on the article, Phillip! I like the vegetable garden with the rosemary and brick edging around the corn... guess those are chives flowering? It looks like a good place to spend time.

    Annie at the Transplantable Rose

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  5. Phillip OliverMarch 27, 2008 at 10:10 AM

    Thanks Wayne!

    Yolanda, thanks for visiting - please come again.

    Gail, my full time job is librarian. Writing about and photographing gardens is a new venture, just something to do on the side. Maybe I can retire early and have this to fall back on. It is sure more fun than my full time work.

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  6. Phillip OliverMarch 27, 2008 at 10:10 AM

    Thanks Annie!

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  7. Mr. McGregor's DaughterMarch 27, 2008 at 2:51 PM

    Congrats on the article! Love the photos, especially the Autumn pic with the water.

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  8. RuralityMarch 27, 2008 at 7:36 PM

    Beautiful pics! I need to subscribe to that magazine.

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  9. chuck b.March 27, 2008 at 8:50 PM

    All that and a windmill too!

    Awesome garden.

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  10. Robin's Nesting PlaceMarch 27, 2008 at 10:08 PM

    That is a beautiful garden. Congratulations on the article.

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  11. lisaMarch 30, 2008 at 12:02 PM

    Congrats on your beutiful garden, it absolutely belongs in a magazine!

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  12. RandyMarch 31, 2008 at 9:59 AM

    Phillip, we just got our first issue last weed and we found your article and photos. We were just tickled that you were in our first one. Good Job!

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  13. Sweet Home and Garden CarolinaApril 1, 2008 at 3:15 PM

    Lovely garden, Phillip. It certainly deserves recognition. Congrats on being published.

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