Wintersong, funny you say "enormous purse strings" I'd always wondered how much it all cost to start from scratch and where they got the money?
Maybe I'm just a nosey old poof?
Can't remember where I read it Hosta, but I believe they both had/have thriving businesses/careers presumably during the 80s ... broadcasting and financial stuff (insurance?) if memory serves me correctly ? They both grew up in Norfolk.
Also, I don't think a semi-derelict Arts & Crafts house in the middle of an agri-desert cost a fortune back then.
We certainly made the right decision to go yesterday rather than today, we've just had a heavy shower and I think there will be more
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hey Jo, please understand this is not my pool of knowledge that we are fishing from here, but Doves! I just made excitable noises and took pretty pictures!
Euonium nigra is the plant with character, not usually hardy! But very sheltered position so thriving! Can get to over six foot in that garden each year! Quite a sight!
Gunners is the other, mum says its a small one, they also had so many animals, very eccentric chickens with afros and ugg boots! Alpaka and guinea foul and ducks
We have an impending thunder storm looming, so think we may pop by a GC too!
Oooh yes, we had a bang crash wallop! sort of a stormy interlude there ... now there's that 'after the storm silence' sort of atmosphere, with just some birds tweeting
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Haha Jo, I'm afraid I had a terminal case of sticky label syndrome and Dove had to have roof down to get all of the plants I'd liberated back home!
Been stalking some ferns for a while, let me see ya wares!
Hosta that's just some of the pictures! The place was gorgeous! The roses were very reasonable in the shop too! Only tenner each for well established plants
Every which way you went there was a little nook waiting to be explored with quirky secluded seating tucked round every hideyhole!
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Can't remember where I read it Hosta, but I believe they both had/have thriving businesses/careers presumably during the 80s ... broadcasting and financial stuff (insurance?) if memory serves me correctly ? They both grew up in Norfolk.
Also, I don't think a semi-derelict Arts & Crafts house in the middle of an agri-desert cost a fortune back then.
We certainly made the right decision to go yesterday rather than today, we've just had a heavy shower and I think there will be more
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think they were very early pioneers of "working from home".....I salute them
Absolutely
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hey Jo, please understand this is not my pool of knowledge that we are fishing from here, but Doves! I just made excitable noises and took pretty pictures!
Euonium nigra is the plant with character, not usually hardy! But very sheltered position so thriving! Can get to over six foot in that garden each year! Quite a sight!
Gunners is the other, mum says its a small one, they also had so many animals, very eccentric chickens with afros and ugg boots! Alpaka and guinea foul and ducks
We have an impending thunder storm looming, so think we may pop by a GC too!
Enjoy Penrhyn castle gardens Jo! Any pictures?
Oooh yes, we had a bang crash wallop! sort of a stormy interlude there ... now there's that 'after the storm silence' sort of atmosphere, with just some birds tweeting
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lovely pics
wish I had been able to come 
Beautiful photos Wonky and Dove, glad you had a good time.
Good luck to them I say. I hope nobody thought I was suggesting they'd got it by illgotten means.
Money well spent from everything I've ever seen of the garden.
Much better than buying a fleet of vulgar cars or a football team , and they're good enough to let everyone else share it.
Haha Jo, I'm afraid I had a terminal case of sticky label syndrome and Dove had to have roof down to get all of the plants I'd liberated back home!
Been stalking some ferns for a while, let me see ya wares!
Hosta that's just some of the pictures! The place was gorgeous! The roses were very reasonable in the shop too! Only tenner each for well established plants
Every which way you went there was a little nook waiting to be explored with quirky secluded seating tucked round every hideyhole!