Garden Visits 2023

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• Marran Posts: 195

  May 2023

  Lovely pics!  I'm off to RHS Wisley next month - really looking forward to it (not been before).
  

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• Latimer Posts: 1,068

  May 2023

  Thanks @Marran, it was a lovely little garden to visit. I’m keen to go back in the summer to see how it changes. 

  
  

  Wisley is fabulous, I should really go back again soon. 

  I’ve no idea what I’m doing. 

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  May 2023

  Lovely photos @Latimer and thank you for sharing them, but there is already a Garden Visits thread.
  
  https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1071445/gardens-to-visit-in-2023/p1
  

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• Latimer Posts: 1,068

  May 2023

  Thanks @Busy-Lizzie. I suspected there would be but somehow I didn’t see it!
  
  

  Should I repost in there and let the mods delete this thread?

  I’ve no idea what I’m doing. 

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• Busy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

  May 2023

  That's what happened when I started an new thread that had already been started. Maybe @Catherine Mansley could help.

  Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.

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• Latimer Posts: 1,068

  May 2023

  Reposted to the correct thread. @mods do your worst! 😀

  I’ve no idea what I’m doing. 

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• LunarSea Posts: 1,923

  June 2023

  I banged on about this event last year - see below. The Buxton Garden Trail is running again this year, but in June this time. If you live anywhere near it is well worth the effort.
  
  buxtongardentrail.co.uk
  
  
  

  In 2022 LunarSea said:

  Been looking forward to the Buxton Garden Trail event so much since last year. This is an event where residents throughout the town open up their gardens, serve tea & cake etc. all for a charitable cause (this year Dementia Carers Count). The gardens vary from Park homes, through terraced cottages and upto palatial Victorian detached houses but all take their gardens seriously and are proud to show them off.
  
  The weather today was mixed and brollies were often required but what a really enjoyable, if tiring, day. Buxton is a hilly place but the panoramic views from some of the gardens offered plenty of reward for our efforts. One very unassuming (from the front) terraced cottage owned by an artist had been totally remodelled at the back and offered absolutely stunning views across the lovely sloping garden, across the town and to the hills miles beyond. This park home on the site of an old quarry is an absolute delight. They have created a secluded little enclave at the rear of the house set into the steep quarry face, guarded with rock-filled steel gabions. Walking around the side of the chalet-type structure you have no idea such a gorgeous garden could be behind it.
  
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  Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 
  
  I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  

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• Bluejayway Posts: 392

  June 2023

  Bodnant Gardens Laburnum Arch yesterday ...
  

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  September 2023

  A visit to Harlow Carr yesterday
  
  
  
  I met Jack Ogg [ who some of you know of ] in the tropical border and we had a nice chat.
  
  
  

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  September 2023

  Lovely @punkdoc . I've only made it to Harlow Carr once this year (so far) and I didn't take any pics - too busy chatting. It was splendid though, early August so all the perennial beds were in full swing. I particularly like the new(ish) ones at the top of the slope.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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