Glen Chantry Essex

[tonyg]

Cliff since you are online now I want to Thank You publicly for helping us out at very short notice.  I will be back from Switzerland (free internet at this Hotel in time to repeat my thanks in front of the locals.  Bizzarely another local speaker is also in Switzerland ... and he will not be back in time!
I trust Phil & Diane have been in touch about hospitality and directions.

[ranunculus]

Thanks Tony ... have a wonderful break in one of my favourite regions.  Nothing from Phil and Diane yet but I'm sure they will make contact over the weekend?  Worry not.

[Lvandelft]

What a wonderful garden you showed us here Brian.
For me it was not boring at all  I can understand that these gardeners want to close their nursery,
but they surely will miss the many admirers.
When having a nice garden with interesting plants one of the pleasures is to receive visitors to show everything.

[Brian Ellis]

Cliff, summoning up the enthusiasm isn't the problem...it's remembering that it's on   So  far this year I think we have missed more meetings than we have attended - sacrilege I know.  Hopefully we will be there and it will be good to meet you too...hope you are enjoying the holiday Tony, plenty of photos I hope.

[Paddy Tobin]

Brian,

Great report on Glen Chantry, great set of photographs. I particularly like the Rodgersia - R. aesculifolia, maybe?

Yes, ornitholgalum sounds just right. Many thanks.

Paddy

[Brian Ellis]

I hope the rumour of the Gala going there is true

I expect it depends on whether Joe can find a convenient site for the talks/sale doesn't it Mark?

Paddy do you know which one by any chance?

[Paddy Tobin]

Sorry, Brian, haven't a clue. Still nice, though.

Paddy

[Brian Ellis]

Oh well I will just do my normal keeping an eye out, maybe Beth Chatto will have one tomorrow

[Lvandelft]

Brian,

Great report on Glen Chantry, great set of photographs. I particularly like the Rodgersia - R. aesculifolia, maybe?

Yes, ornitholgalum sounds just right. Many thanks.

Paddy

Paddy, for me it looks like a form of Rodgersia pinnata Superba. I have different forms of it and showed one in Flowering now this week.

[ian mcenery]

Thanks for the tour Brian. It seems that we will have to get our skates on if we want to visit 

[Brian Ellis]

I'm afraid that is the case Ian, hence our third trip of this year in August, we hope.

[Paddy Tobin]

We are never to hear a complaining word from you, Brian.

Glen Chantry first and now Beth Chatto's. You are just spoiled. Tomorrow, I am going to have the "pleasure" of travelling around thirteen gardens in a neighbouring county to judge them for their local gardening club annual competition. Reminds me of Henry Kissinger's comment: "University politics are so vicious precisely because there is so little at stake."

Have fun and I look forward to the report with extensive photographs to illustrate. Beth Chatto's is the garden I most enjoyed visiting.

Paddy

[Luc Gilgemyn]

What an amazing garden !! 
Thank you very very much for giving us this tour Brian !!

[Paul T]

Wonderful pics.  The lawns are amazing.  So nice to see a good lawn..... a very rare site here now-a-days with our watering restrictions not allowing watering with other than recycled or tank water.  Seeing a properly manicured lawn like that is amazing.  Yes, I can go a few hours from here where they still have lawns, but it is so nice to see such lovely pics of the lawns and borders etc here.  Thanks so much.

[ruweiss]

Brian, what a beautiful garden, nicely documented by your excellent pictures.
Thank you so much!