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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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Roses in November





Mrs. B.R. Cant was displaying some nice blooms this past weekend.

Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy
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  1. debsgardenNovember 29, 2010 at 4:09 PM

    beautiful bloom! I am happy that a few of my roses are still producing blooms, though we have had some light frost.

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  2. How It GrowsNovember 29, 2010 at 4:13 PM

    Fragrant?

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  3. EveNovember 29, 2010 at 6:09 PM

    My roses are a little shy yet. And probably like me hate going out in the cold!

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  4. compost in my shoeNovember 29, 2010 at 7:47 PM

    The antiques always prove to be November's magical moments! Great photo!

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  5. Phillip OliverNovember 29, 2010 at 9:10 PM

    Phillip, it had a strong tea fragrance.

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  6. Tallulah's Antique ClosetNovember 30, 2010 at 1:16 AM

    It is a pretty bloom! Our roses are doing good so far. But it has been cold for the past couple of days.

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  7. LonaNovember 30, 2010 at 9:05 AM

    She has a gorgeous bloom. It is good to still see some rose blooms this time of the year.

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  8. GailNovember 30, 2010 at 9:06 AM

    Lovely rose and aren't we lucky to still have beautiful blooms! gail

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  9. The Redneck RosarianNovember 30, 2010 at 10:15 AM

    Phillip, beautiful bloom. I'm putting it on my Christmas list!

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  10. DarlaNovember 30, 2010 at 5:15 PM

    She is very pretty. My rose growing skills are not very good although I keep trying.

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  11. CarolDecember 1, 2010 at 4:33 AM

    Lovely! What kind of tea? ;>))

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  12. CommonweederDecember 1, 2010 at 5:17 AM

    What a beautiful rose. My daughter lives in Texas and I still can't get used to the fact that the two of us have such different Rose Seasons.

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  13. still goodDecember 6, 2010 at 1:57 AM

    That rose is so beautiful. You are a wonderful photographer, too!

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