@punkdoc your SIL's garden design sounds like a nice project. My MIL has asked me to do similar for her (on a much much smaller scale). She's had a garden room added to the back of the house and now wants something nice to look at ... thing is she'll readily acknowledge that she's famous for killing plants ... she tells me that she want perennials that don't take any looking after ... I might try to persuade her to accompany us on a visit to Bressingham and Foggy Bottom and point at the things she likes ... she lives not far from Barnsdale, but as I remember it she wasn't that impressed when she visited I think she might like Adrian Bloom's take on things ... she has a south facing garden on fantastic fenland loam so how hard can this be ...
Bearing in mind she once planted an apricot against a wall and was amazed that it didn't fan train itself flat against the wall all by itself like the ones she'd seen elsewhere ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unk I have two sisters and I am the middle one. I adore one and the other drives me nuts another glorious day here but we have had quite a lot of rain recently so quite happy Dove our internet has been dipping in and out for days now. A very nice lady in Dublin promised it would be fixed this morning. Not yet
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
All beautiful indeed @Dovefromabove. Can anyone imagine any of them being granted planning nowadays by the petty , small minded , self -serving NIMBYs who stuff the planning committees of councils up and down the land? Where are the great houses we're building for our descendants to enjoy? The only20th Century house of merit I can think of ,even approaching that scale, is Castle Drogo. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/castle-drogo and I bet that wouldn't be allowed today either.
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Bearing in mind she once planted an apricot against a wall and was amazed that it didn't fan train itself flat against the wall all by itself like the ones she'd seen elsewhere ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Unk I have two sisters and I am the middle one. I adore one and the other drives me nuts
another glorious day here but we have had quite a lot of rain recently so quite happy
Dove our internet has been dipping in and out for days now. A very nice lady in Dublin promised it would be fixed this morning. Not yet
A A Milne
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-44972642/norfolk-day-drone-flight-over-tourist-hot-spots
What's the big house at about 47 seconds in?
as are
https://www.houghtonhall.com/,
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/blickling-estate (fancy clipping those yew hedges anyone?),
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/felbrigg-hall-gardens-and-estate
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/oxburgh-hall
and all the others around here
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Interestingly, Sandringham is merely a 'house' .... not a 'hall'
https://www.sandringhamestate.co.uk/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can anyone imagine any of them being granted planning nowadays by the petty , small minded , self -serving NIMBYs who stuff the planning committees of councils up and down the land?
Where are the great houses we're building for our descendants to enjoy? The only20th Century house of merit I can think of ,even approaching that scale, is Castle Drogo.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/castle-drogo
and I bet that wouldn't be allowed today either.