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...
I had hear she bloomed but hadn't seen it. Fantastic "arrangement" in the urn!
ReplyDeleteI use it as a ground cover in one of my light shade beds, and it grows and blooms profusely!
ReplyDeleteGosh, I have several little clumps of it growing in the garden and have had it in many planters but I have never seen it bloom either. What a treat.
ReplyDeleteWho knew? Was anyone fertilizing them with hair clippings?
ReplyDeleteI've never seen them bloom, either. The color combination of that planter is lovely.
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Always Growing
Mine has never bloomed. hmm... wish it would!
ReplyDeleteCameron
You know, I haven't seen mine bloom either. It looks great with the purple Million Bells.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful arrangement! I love the colors. I've seen it bloom here in my garden in the shady areas.
ReplyDeleteWonderful combination, Phillip! I love these displays, where the plants pour out of the pots! That's very attractive and with the purplish or maroonish flowers, it looks A1!
ReplyDeleteHi Phillip! These arrangements are great, I love them! I've never seen C.J. blooming!
ReplyDeleteHere is another one who didn't know. I don't have much experience with it but recently visited a garden that used a lot of it. She had it cascading over a retaining wall and it looked great--but wasn't blooming.
ReplyDeleteMarnie
I knew creeping Jenny blooms but I never knew aloe bloomed... :)
ReplyDeleteI have a blooming creeping jenny. Your plant combo is a good one.
ReplyDeleteGoodness me, looking at the temperature map on your sidebar it looks hot over there!
I've never seen it blooming Phillip...the color is perfect with the Million Bells. Containers are so much fun! gail
ReplyDeleteIt's a beautiful urn and lovely combination! I love the purple faces especially.
ReplyDeleteWow Phillip, I have that everywhere and it has never bloomed. Maybe as you say, the heat and bright light in that position triggered it. Fantastic!
ReplyDeleteFrances
Your pots look fabulous...and even more so, with Jenny's outstanding show!!
ReplyDeleteI've got some Creeping Jenny that looks beautiful, but it hasn't bloomed. I'm jealous!
ReplyDeleteHow lovely, Phillip - never saw it bloom either. I had three nice patches of it - one dripping over the sides of a container like yours. First the hail beat it up and now there's just one little clump alive.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll try the suggestion by Les and give what's left a mulch of hair clippings!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
I think I may have that creeping jennie around my place here in S. Al. I thought it was something-- well, of course it is something, but I mean other than a weed. Whatever, I like the leaves. No flowers, yet.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice surprise!
ReplyDeleteI knew they were supposed to bloom since I bought mine 5 yrs ago as a flowering perennial with a lovely pic of the flowers on the tag - but mine have never bloomed - seeing yours gives me hope!
ReplyDeleteI have had them for years and this year for the first time I have wonderful yellow flowers!
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