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...















Thanks for this great tour of Scott's garden! I hope you enjoyed your trip out to the wild west!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this tour so much! I read Scott's blog too, and it's so cool to see his garden from someone else's lens. What a treat it must have been.
ReplyDeletePhilip, the pleasure was all ours...so glad to have you over and to get to meet you! I hope it's the first of many visits you get to make to Portland :-)
ReplyDeleteI bet you didn't hardly know where to look next. Beautiful. My kind of garden... full.
ReplyDeleteLovely...I have long admired his skill at combining textures and colors. It's a beautiful garden. gail
ReplyDeleteThe last picture is spectacular.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, I will have to start following this blog. Love the garden!
ReplyDeleteI love the garden. I'm going to have to start following the blog because I do love a cat photo ;)
ReplyDeleteAnother lucky day on your trip. I have followed Scott and his skilled photography for some time now.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Going to visit the blog now!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Going to visit the blog now!
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