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...
Looks like some kind of penstemon or campanula. Can we see the foliage? (Oh, wait, what am I saying? I'm sure someone else will be able to ID it as is!)
ReplyDeleteVery much like a Campanula that seeds itself readily here. The buds especially are very typical of many Campanula species.
ReplyDeleteHi Phillip, looks a little like Adenophora (lady bells) to me but it's hard to tell without the leaves. Could be campanula. You will know if it spreads like prairie fire:)
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Thanks everybody. I just added a shot of the leaves.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a Hairy Beard Tongue, a member of the Snapdragon family....
ReplyDeleteA lovely plant, beautiful bell flower.
Looks like a campanula to me!
ReplyDeleteMy first guess is Adenophora. My first thought is, it's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteIf you post this on GardenWeb's Name That Plant, I bet they could give you a species name almost instantly. Those people are wizards.
Campanula rapunculoides
ReplyDeleteThese really are the most stunning photographs ... whatever the plant!! Just love this blog!
ReplyDeleteYep, I agree with campanula. I have tried to grow it without luck.
ReplyDeleteI do not know it but it is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIt looks just like my Adenophora. I'm fairly certain that's what it is.
ReplyDeleteIt's a pretty reliable bloomer, sun, shade, dry, wet... It spreads quickly. I have it running amongst daylilies and Siberian iris.
Marnie
Yes, it does look like a Campanula, but it is Adenophora. My neighbor has these, and now, after a few years, they have invaded my entire front yard and I now consider them a noxious weed. Beautiful, but it's dangerous—love the blooms, but snip them off often.
ReplyDeleteRoses and Lilacs and Sweet Bay are correct, Phillip -It's Adenophora Lilifolia or Lady Bells. I have it in my garden and let me warn you that while it's beautiful it can become invasive.
ReplyDeleteIt's heat tolerant which is a plus for the Alabama garden. Seeds itself and doesn't take well to transplanting.
Hey, we were hotter in Chicago yesterday than you or Florida. 90 degrees in May!
Hi Phillip!
ReplyDeleteIt is Adenophora lilifolia.
I love it. I have this blooming right now.
Best to you!
I have always thought this to be a type of Campanula Phillip... I have them too coming up here and there. Not sure of more details about this plant though.
ReplyDeleteI have both adenophora and campanula, and that is definitely adenophora. Besides I planted it many years ago, as a purchased plant from a nursery. Mine has never become a problem with spreading and I love it. Now the campanula, that can be a noxious weed!
ReplyDeleteCampanula rapuncloides - google it and you'll see the similaries
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ReplyDeleteI like it` a great color blue on my monitor! gail
ReplyDeleteCampanulaceae rapunculoides is my bet too - very invasive over here ...
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