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Colesbourne Park and other Snowdrop Gardens

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David Nicholson:

Maggi-not sure if you want this post here and make it a "Snowdrop Garden" thread or whether you want to put it somewhere else.



A few pictures here of a visit we made today to East Lambrook Manor in South Somerset. East Lambrook is a cottage (though on the large side) style garden originally developed by Marjorie Fish in the 1950/60's. The pictures will be little different from those John Finch posted in two ways:- firstly that he can take photos whilst I just persevere (I'm told I am to artistic design what Rudolph Nuryev {spelling?} was to Rugby League); and secondly whilst John's setting was a significant estate you can walk across East Lambrook in less than 100 strides. Mark Smyth was lecturing at East Lambrook yesterday but I didn't see the brass plaque! :D


General View 1

General View 2

Marjorie Brown

Can't remember what it was!

Tubby Merlin


Maggi Young:
Here will do nicely, David. Another charming garden, I like the "sunken" walk.
I can think of  ways in which Rude Old Nearenough the Bally Dangler might have been a great asset to rugby of any sort : not , for several reasons,that we are mentioning rugby here at the moment :(
Also, I was distracted by my mother in law at a crucial time and manged to forget to video record today's game for Ian. He is returned from a couple of days in/around Glasgow and no rugby to watch. :-[ :P

Can't think why no blue plaque for MS... someone must have pinched it!!

hadacekf:
John, I enjoyed your visit to Colesbourne very much.
Many thanks for sharing them with us!

snowdropman:

--- Quote from: David Nicholson on February 04, 2007, 08:05:08 PM ---
A few pictures here of a visit we made today to East Lambrook Manor in South Somerset.
--- End quote ---

Hi David

Hope that you enjoyed your visit - in recent years they have discovered some really exciting new snowdrops - the only shame is that they still do not have any of them on general sale, although James Coles (the Head Nurseryman) tells me that they are working on bulking up their stocks for sale in future years.

David Nicholson:
Chris, I enjoyed our visit very much, it is not the first time I had been to East Lambrook but we have always gone in the early Summer before-it is only about 1.5 hours journey time for us. Although it was by no means crowded there were quite a few people around but I don't think the "powers that be" made the best of their audience. There were one or two pots of G nivalis, and the odd pot of G elwesii for sale and precious little else. Had I been the Nurseryman I would have backed these up with plenty of pots of Iris reticulata varieties, some Crocus species and a few nice Hellebores-people do like to see a Garden and then buy something from it-well at least I do!

My other grouse was that although some snowdrops had name plates many didn't and were given just a code number- and there was nothing to help visitors to decipher the codes (of course this may be to deter people from pinching the rarer plants?)

Apart from that, oh and the Tea Shop had run out of Soup at 1315 (for God's sake on a thoroughly soup day!) and |I had to force cake down instead (Maggi and Lesley would have been proud of me!) it was a smashing day out

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