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...
Aren't they a handsome Hummingbird?! Maybe they will nest in your garden this summer. Wouldn't that be great!! Nice photo.
ReplyDeleteSo sweet!
ReplyDeleteStunning. You are one lucky guy.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Aren't their colors and their tiny little feet just amazing? I love hummers!
ReplyDeleteWow - great shot! I saw a hummer in my garden on Monday. It was so nice to spend some time out there, and to see that they are still there. It was just me, who was gone for a while.
ReplyDeleteOh how I wish we had these lovely little birds here in the uk! Still, I can enjoy yours thanks to your great photos Philip.
ReplyDeleteOh my! I love it! I won't see any hummers here till late May or so. Can't wait.
ReplyDeleteWell done, getting a shot of one of these elusive fellows. They were a rare sight where I lived in Massachusetts, much less rare now that I live in Washington, but no less amazing and wonderful. I hope you're also growing plants that they can feast on, then you'll see even more of them.
ReplyDeleteWe've had Annas right through the winter but the rufous have yet to arrive. They're small but combative, making for some entertaining rufous ruckus at the feeder. I'm impressed by your photo.
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