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...
Wow, it is so lush and colorful. Stunning!
ReplyDeleteGlad you got much-needed rain, but I do hate when it hits on Saturday! That’s work day, for sure.
ReplyDeleteI'm envious, Phillip! Your garden looks lush. Our rainy season is effectively over, although there's a slight chance of rain tonight but the forecast is 0.01/inch :(
ReplyDeleteOh so lovely. Still waiting and hoping on a few things here. Yours look grand. Cheers, Phillip.
ReplyDeleteYour garden looks so lush for all that rain Philip. I understand the disappointment of not being able to get outside comfortably to do work in the garden.
ReplyDeleteWow, Phillip! Your garden is beautiful, I agree with all the others calling it lush. Magic rain and all your work. I love the pic with the grass path, how gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteMarvelous! Rain is magic.
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