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...
April was particularly dry in Georgia as well. Most of the plants are doing well in the garden but we have had to supplement water the orchard (very thankful for our newly drilled well). We also had a late frost, after our typical April 15th last frost date so it has done a number on some of the plants. We just roll with it. Your garden is looking really lovely!
ReplyDeleteI understand your concern about the dry weather. It is scary. Your watering regime looks to be taking care of every plant.
ReplyDeleteYour garden is magnificent, Phillip. I share your concern with the dry conditions. It's even worse here but that's cold comfort I know.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to "April showers bring May flowers"... It was a rather dry in Seattle the better part of April, although it rained toward the end of the month. The potted plants got help from the hose, but not much else. I love the new growth and cones on the Norway Spruce!
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