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...
Beautiful, Phillip! Thanks for sharing and have a great holiday weekend!
ReplyDeleteWhat spectacular views. I bet you could hardly pull yourself away from there.
ReplyDeleteHa! I have actually been there! Beautiful, isn't it? Wonderful pictures!
ReplyDeleteI could say it was beautiful, spectacular, breath taking but all that has been said. Here the pictures really are worth a thousand words. Thank you for posting and I enjoyed my trip even if it was only cyber travel.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots of a most beautiful part of this state I now call home!
ReplyDeleteTruly spectacular and wonderful captures Philip! I'm enjoying your travels immensely! Larry
ReplyDeleteOne of the most beautiful places I have ever visited! Your photos are great! Happy 4th!
ReplyDeleteSo cool, Phillip. We did this trip a couple of years ago and it was really stunning. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
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