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...
Very pretty! I prefer to admire 'Tiger Eyes' in other gardens. Having grown up in the Northeast, where sumac is an aggressively spreading weed, I've never been tempted to plant any variety of it. It does have nice foliage though. I love my Molinia caerulea 'Skyracer.'
ReplyDeleteI admired the plants in this bed, and noticed the fountain grass on top cascading "green curls" on Pan's head. That hairdo requires more information :-)
ReplyDeleteYou have so many interesting corners in your garden. The sun accentuates the positive.
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