Busy-Lizzie, will look up the Breezy Knees garden when on holiday in Yorkshire in October. I love the undulatling swathes of colour backed by green foliage. An interesting and successful way to garden on 'thin' soil.
Mrs G, have just browsed you photographs again looking for more inspiration for a proposed new bed. I already have some excellent ideas from Verduns borders which would suit and see that the oblix in one border of your photos give not only height but take the eye on - useful in a smaller space.
Really love the hydrangeas but no room for them to show their blooms properly in the ground so considering lage pots .
Having a few days 'away' this week visiting local gardens so will be posting more ideas.
Holker Hall gardens are beautiful Zoomer44. I will choose a sunny day next time I visit too
Holker Hall looks lovely, Zoomer. Huge house and gardens, rare plants. But not for me - yet. It's in Cumbria. So far from France. Wonder if Ryanair goes anywhere near? We were thinking of East Anglia next year.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Visited Gresgarth Garden on Sunday, it's the home of Arabella Lennox-Boyld. Stunning gardens but it's only open the 2nd Sunday of each month.
The family were at home on Sunday and Arabella was out in the garden. Very informal, you do feel like you are walking round a lived in garden but on a grand scale. There's a tributary of the River Lune running through the gardens, which you can hear but not always see, most plants are named and the kitchen garden was exceptional with fruit tree's trained to just a couple of ft off the ground. Pear tree's were trained into goblet shapes and it looked an organic veg area with companion planting.
There's also a large woodland area which you can walk round, the site is 12 acres.
Mr and Mrs Bream. national collection of Roscoeas spread around a 1 acre garden, Stevenshill , Shropshire.
Mr Bream showed me around and pointed out variations in different plants from the collection. Near the entrance, where he stands some of the pots in the shade, Roscoea scillifolia pink form had seeded itself into the gravel.
Three types growing in large pots which get protection in the winter.
Usually they are bone hardy in the soil, with a thick mulch of compost.
By the pond.
One of his own seedlings , probably a ghurka/purpurea cross.
Wont post my piccies of Stevenshill as they are mainly the same as Fidgets. I chatted to Mr Bream and the seedling is a cross of red ghurka and pupurea. I asked if he had any to sell but not until next year apparently its a lovely colour.
Like that Eucomis fidget, would work well with that Roscoea in last pic.
I've been to Holker Hall, Zoomer- a very long time ago though, so don't remember much about it. Have you been to Levens Hall in Cumbria? Famous for it's topiary.
BL - if Ryanair had flights to Cumbria they would actually land in Glasgow and you'd have to get a bus transfer....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fg - Would you believe it, I visited Levens today. It was rather wet though so didn't spend long in the garden. I took pictures but can';t load them onto the thread, only just learnt how to load them onto the computer.
I've pressed the green tree but can't up load the file with the pics in.
Ryanair do now fly from Liverpool and Manchester to Belieze in France.
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Busy-Lizzie, will look up the Breezy Knees garden when on holiday in Yorkshire in October. I love the undulatling swathes of colour backed by green foliage.
An interesting and successful way to garden on 'thin' soil.
Mrs G, have just browsed you photographs again looking for more inspiration for a proposed new bed. I already have some excellent ideas from Verduns borders which would suit and see that the oblix in one border of your photos give not only height but take the eye on - useful in a smaller space.
Really love the hydrangeas but no room for them to show their blooms properly in the ground so considering lage pots
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Having a few days 'away' this week visiting local gardens so will be posting more ideas.
Holker Hall gardens are beautiful Zoomer44. I will choose a sunny day next time I visit too
Holker Hall looks lovely, Zoomer. Huge house and gardens, rare plants. But not for me - yet. It's in Cumbria. So far from France. Wonder if Ryanair goes anywhere near? We were thinking of East Anglia next year.
Lovely pics Busy lizzie, no wonder you had a lovely time
Visited Gresgarth Garden on Sunday, it's the home of Arabella Lennox-Boyld. Stunning gardens but it's only open the 2nd Sunday of each month.
The family were at home on Sunday and Arabella was out in the garden. Very informal, you do feel like you are walking round a lived in garden but on a grand scale. There's a tributary of the River Lune running through the gardens, which you can hear but not always see, most plants are named and the kitchen garden was exceptional with fruit tree's trained to just a couple of ft off the ground. Pear tree's were trained into goblet shapes and it looked an organic veg area with companion planting.
There's also a large woodland area which you can walk round, the site is 12 acres.
Well worth a visit if anyone is in the area.
Mr and Mrs Bream. national collection of Roscoeas spread around a 1 acre garden, Stevenshill , Shropshire.
Mr Bream showed me around and pointed out variations in different plants from the collection. Near the entrance, where he stands some of the pots in the shade, Roscoea scillifolia pink form had seeded itself into the gravel.
Three types growing in large pots which get protection in the winter.
Usually they are bone hardy in the soil, with a thick mulch of compost.
By the pond.
One of his own seedlings , probably a ghurka/purpurea cross.
Wont post my piccies of Stevenshill as they are mainly the same as Fidgets. I chatted to Mr Bream and the seedling is a cross of red ghurka and pupurea. I asked if he had any to sell but not until next year apparently its a lovely colour.
As well as the open day, they will take a group around by appointment.
Like that Eucomis fidget, would work well with that Roscoea in last pic.
I've been to Holker Hall, Zoomer- a very long time ago though, so don't remember much about it. Have you been to Levens Hall in Cumbria? Famous for it's topiary.
BL - if Ryanair had flights to Cumbria they would actually land in Glasgow and you'd have to get a bus transfer....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fg - Would you believe it, I visited Levens today. It was rather wet though so didn't spend long in the garden. I took pictures but can';t load them onto the thread, only just learnt how to load them onto the computer
.
I've pressed the green tree but can't up load the file with the pics in.
Ryanair do now fly from Liverpool and Manchester to Belieze in France.