Visited East Ruston old vicarage gardens on Sunday. No photos unfortunately but definitely worth visiting. Lots of different garden 'rooms' including a dry garden with a monster agave that has just flowered this year. Bought a lovely salvia cuello cream which I have not seen elsewhere.
No photos but the Bishop's Palace Garden in Wells, Somerset is so worth a visit. When lock down was lifted we went to use our 2for1 but found that if we paid £15 each (took our breathe away!) we could then come back as many times as we wanted to for a year. So...we did. And we visited each month and saw how the garden changed over a whole year. Lovely volunteers to chat to as well as the paid staff. Allotments part of the gardens and again easy to chat with their owners. Some fabulous plants and interesting ideas on changing the plots from time to time. Really glad we did the visits for a year.
Was back at Goodnestone Park Gardens yesterday, and what a joy to be in a place that allows you to relax completely. I can sit amongst the trees, shrubs and flowers, and feel the tension just draining away. A place such as that, is worth the cost.
That looks lovely @rowlandscastle444. I used to live in Kent and my parents were in East Sussex so I've visited a lot of gardens in the south east but that is a garden I've never been to.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
https://goodnestonepark.co.uk/ Hi @Busy-Lizzie This is their website, but the place is far better than the website indicates. The tea-room is what so many people go for. In fact, few of those people actually walk around the garden - which is a plus for me. We take our own sandwiches, etc, and sit in the woodland, or other quiet areas. We don't get disturbed at all - except by insects and birds. I don't mind them at all.
May I ask a really silly question? I love seeing all your photos of so many beautiful gardens but always wonder what happens to keep them so orderly, neat and tidy. Who goes round dead heading, say, the roses or those plants coming to the end of their flowering time - I know that if half those lovely plants were in my garden it would be a full time job to keep them in order. Then at the end of the season who goes round cutting everything back, perhaps digging those up that have only one flowering season; do they then plant more to fill in the gaps. No plant keeps going all year round so there must be regular trimming/cutting back to do on a continuous basis. But it never seems to show, no bare earth to be seen anywhere. Is there an army of staff or similar who work all the hours of the week (somehow out of sight of the visitors) or are there little magical elves who work nights to get everything back in order for the daytime visitors? Just very interested in how it all works.
Early autumn last year I posted my impressions of Sheffield's Grey To Green project in the parts of the city centre currently undergoing extensive re-development. As I mentioned at the time, it's not a "garden visit" per-se but I'd definitely encourage anyone visiting the city to take a look if they can.
Last week I paid a further visit, earlier in the season this time, and was equally blown away. I think it's the jarring juxtaposition between the gorgeous planting and the neighbouring city-scape with all it's rough edges. And yes .... the sun came out!
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
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A place such as that, is worth the cost.
Hi @Busy-Lizzie
This is their website, but the place is far better than the website indicates. The tea-room is what so many people go for. In fact, few of those people actually walk around the garden - which is a plus for me.
We take our own sandwiches, etc, and sit in the woodland, or other quiet areas. We don't get disturbed at all - except by insects and birds. I don't mind them at all.
Garden Visits 2022 - Page 17 — BBC Gardeners' World Magazine (gardenersworld.com)
Last week I paid a further visit, earlier in the season this time, and was equally blown away. I think it's the jarring juxtaposition between the gorgeous planting and the neighbouring city-scape with all it's rough edges. And yes .... the sun came out!
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful