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...
I'd have absolutely no hesitation (short of booming thunder and lightning perhaps) to visit your open garden on account of rain, Phillip, were I not 1000+miles away. Congratulations on the rain.
ReplyDeleteI am so happy that you got some rain! Your garden won't disappoint even in the rain. I bet the tourists will show up.
ReplyDeleteHappy for you that you got precious rainfall. Your garden looks stunning!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy visiting your garden virtually. Only 1/2 inch of rain here in Virginia until this week leaves the garden gasping during a prime growing season. I expect perennials to not be spectacular this year even with my sorry watering attempts.
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How many cutleaf sumac does your stunning garden grow? Wonderful to get rain. Beautiful planting!
ReplyDeleteDenise, there is one in the ground and two in pots (I think). The two potted ones came from the big one.
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