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...
Your garden is absolutely gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteYour garden is absolutely beautiful! I enjoyed the visit!
ReplyDeleteThere nothing like the light in your world. It makes all the plants shine. Happy Bloom Day Phillip. Thanks for sharing your garden. ~~Dee
ReplyDeleteYour garden is spectacular, Phillip! Wish I could grow that foxtail rosemary - it's wonderful. And the orange Calla... wow!
ReplyDeleteThe coreopsis and lavender looks so perfect together. My bee balm gets chewed every single year. I let it be the sacrificial plant, since nothing else near it gets eaten.
ReplyDeleteI am SO envious of your weather, although I have to say that, by comparison to other areas of the country, my part of coastal Southern California has also enjoyed a relatively mild summer, at least thus far. No rain for us, however! I loved your coreopsis/lavender vignette and I think I need to add some coreopsis this summer - the one perennial form I have hasn't yet made an appearance and seems more diminished with each passing year. Your Shasta daisy is a looker too.
ReplyDeleteOh that's a nice little Coreopsis-I'm very partial to yellow flowers. Maybe that Shasta is 'Becky' ? I had that one once and seem to remember just opened flowers were pale yellow fading to white as they mature. It's been a hot season here so far with many days in the 90's. The coast is beckoning.
ReplyDeleteSo many blooms. I enjoy seeing each and every one.
ReplyDeleteThose are spectacular I know many of them can't be grown in a climate where I live but still would try Filipendula as an annual for our spring season .
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I can do with crocosmia is kill it -- and then blame it on the weather. Pineapple Guava would be a stretch in my climate but with it changing, who knows? I am glad you had good weather - our summer has been great for growing cactus but nothing else.
ReplyDelete-Ray