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...










Gorgeous, Phillip. Wonderful color on the 'Alice' and the Pomegranate. (They color up somewhat even here.) Your garden gets better and better and better. Looks like the PNW is getting at least a bit of rain--that should knock back those spider mites a bit.
ReplyDeleteDazzling fall color indeed, Phillip. I can't say I've seen any of that here yet but then its sparse even later in the season.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Southeast is a bit lackluster this fall. Been very dry. Japanese maples are crispy, not colored. But oh, the sun angle has changed. Beautiful light is what I’m here for!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and vibrant garden... not sure what you mean by "clean-up is desperately needed". What's your fall routine?
ReplyDeleteJealous of your Figgies.
Chavli
Hey Phillip, your garden is stunning!, as per every time I check in, its just amazing! I noted your photo of the spider mite damage... I have the same on my eucryphia's. I did a bit of investigating and discovered that what I had wasn't spider mite, but was instead a new pest for us (I garden up in Tacoma) called Pieris lace bug. The damage noted in you picture looks very similar to what i have on my shrubs. It's not a good sign that it is spreading so rapidly. I'm seeing it everywhere in my neighborhood. Hope this helps, so that we can get this pest under a bit of control. .. Erik
ReplyDeleteThanks Eric - I will look into this! -- Phillip
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