Author Topic: The Garden House. 15 February 2019 (Read 1820 times)

David Nicholson · « **on:** February 15, 2019, 08:21:49 PM »

Another beautiful day today and with the lunch-time temperature nudging 17C we made the best of it by going to The Garden House.
https://www.thegardenhouse.org.uk/

Plenty warm enough for just a jumper (well, trousers as well). A visit to the Tea Room for a sandwich, and cake of course to start with! The Garden House is about 30 minutes from home for us over part of Dartmoor to Yelverton. It's a lovely drive too with the added incentive of an ice cream 99 (the best ice cream on God's Earth) on the way back home. No wonder I'm getting portly.

We have been to The Garden House many times over the years and today I thought it looked the best I've ever seen it. From becoming a bit one -dimentional since Head Gardener, Nick Haworth, joined in 2013 it has really advanced a lot.

Loads of pictures to come when I have finished preparing them but to start five views and then it's time to shoot off to the pub for a pint! The last of those views is of Nandina domestica which is new to me. It's common names are Heavenly Bamboo or Sacred Bamboo and it is a member of the Berberidaceae. Cracking small tree.

David Nicholson · « **Reply #1 on:** February 16, 2019, 05:43:48 PM »

Beautiful stretches of Crocus tomassinianus, Iris reticulata, Heathers and a few Narcissus cyclamineus over the next two posts.

David Nicholson · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2019, 05:44:59 PM »

and.....

David Nicholson · « **Reply #3 on:** February 16, 2019, 06:48:30 PM »

Many of the Camellias needed a couple of weeks yet to be at their best but some of the earlier varieties were well out. I always find it difficult to photograph the larger Cammelias so just one here and it's much easier to picture individual flowers.

David Nicholson · « **Reply #4 on:** February 16, 2019, 06:59:44 PM »

Many Hellebores throughout the garden so just a few here.

David Nicholson · « **Reply #5 on:** February 16, 2019, 07:13:05 PM »

I do like the Dogwoods but haven't the room to grow them so a couple of pics here. Many patches of unnamed Snowdrops throughout the garden so just one sample here.

That just leaves me to decide how to deal with the pictures of the named varieties of Galanthus of which there many.

Carolyn · « **Reply #6 on:** February 16, 2019, 07:36:13 PM »

Nice photos, David. What is the red-flowered shrub to the left of the red cornus stems? The colour is picked up and repeated, makes a good combination. Is it a rhodie, flowering already down in the tropical south?

David Nicholson · « **Reply #7 on:** February 16, 2019, 08:09:13 PM »

Thanks Carolyn. Sorry I didn't get that one but I'm fairly certain it wasn't a Rhododendron, there were none out throughout the garden. Sorry.

David Nicholson · « **Reply #8 on:** February 16, 2019, 08:17:55 PM »

Right, all I have got left are the named Galanthus. The file names for the pictures are just what it said on the labels. I have left the picture sizes as large as possible in the hope this will be more useful to the Galanthophiles. Here we go:-

Galanthus 'Bertram Anderson'