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...
So pretty and cozy looking.
ReplyDeleteMalcolm
Your house is so beautiful!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat looking shot! Your house always looks beautiful regardless of the weather.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I hope you got a snow day out of this weather.
ReplyDeleteYour house looks so lovely, warm and inviting! You just want to come in for a cup of tea!
ReplyDeleteChristina
So pretty. Like a picture postcard!
ReplyDeleteLovely - looks like an upmarket xmas card ! Very appealing!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty!
ReplyDeleteI'm so pleased to see that you can appreciate the beauty of the snow!
ReplyDeleteThat should be your Christmas Card next year, if you are still there.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! The lovely home, the snow and lights make for a postcard setting.
ReplyDeleteHow pretty, Phillip!
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