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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: David Nicholson on April 07, 2017, 08:10:26 PM
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Beautiful day here today for a visit to Wildside on the garden's first opening of the year. So warm I could have managed in just a tee shirt (trousers too of course!) but struggled on in a jumper. Far too bright for my limited photographic skills too so have ditched many of the snaps. Bumped into Jon Evans and his wife, I should have asked for a lesson.
First five pics all of Erythroniums in great swathes across the garden. In chatting with Keith Wiley afterwards he remarked "Wait until you see them in about three years time"
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Two more Erythronium pics
Beautiful red Acers
One of a number of cracking Rhododendrons
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I'm developing a soft spot for Trilliums but know next to nothing about them. If anyone could put names these that would be nice
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For those with their naming caps on they could help me with these please.
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Last of the 'What's this' please
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Not bad photos. David, better than many of my efforts.
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Argh - very, very envious. I was talking with Keith and Ros at Rosemoor and they have made a determined stand to invest their time and energy into Wildside rather than travelling long distances to Shows to sell plants. We face the same dilemma, even though with hardly the drama and fame of their garden. Keeping on top of a garden AND propagating and selling plants is a huge endeavour. We must try and visit them sometime in the future and hope they will still venture out to Rosemoor when the AGS Show is held there again; it's an opportunity at least to savour some of those wonderful gardens in the West Country. One of the patches of erythroniums must be E. revolutum 'Janice', which is a selection from Wildside awarded the AGM recently. The first Trillium (white with pink eye) looks like T. albidum.
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Thanks for showing Wildside again David; beautiful in any season!
I think 1a, 1b show Uvularia sessilifolia and 3a, 3b Clintonia borealis - somehow on steroids, never seen one so big.
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Keith Wiley matches Ian Young in his enthusiasm for Erythroniums! They've bonded over that. Keith has written to Ian in glowing terms about Ian's 'Erythronium in Cultivation' e-book, which was nice.
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I am more puzzled by the woodland. That was a heavily modified field when I was there last a few years ago. Those trees look reasonably mature.
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David - 2a and 2b would be Rhododendron williamsianum, likely one of the selected forms but I can only id the white-flowered form. When in flower!
Such a gem.
john
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Thanks for Rhododendron williamsianum ID John. I just didn't recognise it as a Rhododendron, not seen one with that sort of leaf shape and colour before. It's lovely.
Thanks too Gabriela for Uvularia sessilifolia, that I hadn't seen before and also the Clintonia borealis.
Thanks for the Trillium albidum Tim. It was a great time of year to see the lower garden and it will be even better in a few weeks when the Primulas and Dactylorhiza come into flower. Later in the year the upper garden really comes into its own.
Perhaps it's been longer than you think Brian?
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Using Google maps the aerial view is marked as 2017, so I assume current. The area at the bottom of the rectangle was I recall orchard trees with meadow type wild flowers between, restricting where you could walk. There were many other young trees around the site edges and a few on the various banking/berms but not woodland I can remember, The top of the site, (nearest the road) above the car parking and formally laid out section (originally the sale area) was just starting planting out when I was last there.
I must try and get back there this year. Most of my previous visits have been at Rhodohypoxis, Dactylorhiza flowering times.
Note if you have not visited, Google has the identifying marker label in the wrong place the other side of the commercial nursery further down the lane.
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In case anyone is considering a visit to Wildside the next opening days are June 24-30 (10-4) and July 24-31 (10-4)
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My mate Mike tells me I forgot to include the dates for Wildside's May openings. He's right, I did forget, so here they are:-
May 25-31 (10-4)
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That's interesting as we're in Cornwall from May 22 to 29 and staying just an hour and a half away!
Thanks for the info, David
cheers
fermi
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Fermi, The Garden House is only five minutes from Wildside, you could do both in the same day (TGH has a tea room!)
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We visited both Wildside and the Garden House last summer. Unforgettable and highly advisable
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Belatedly...we visited Wildside at the end of May. What a treat. If you're ever close by do visit. We were inspired in a way that can't really be conveyed through photographs. The gardens are a visual treat to be sure, but the way on which the landform has been modified is genius.
1. New dwelling under construction. The new rock garden below it is a bit bare at the moment. I'm not sure what plants are intended for, or how well the peat blocks will work in such a hot, sunny position.
2. variety of colours, shapes and textures along with repetition.
3. meadow beneath an orchard.
4. bearded Iris.
6. standard trained Wisteria.
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5. view across a pond (water level very low)
7. Moraea sp.
8. Magnolia wilsonii
9. a sea of Rhodohypoxis
10. Shortia on a peat wall
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11. Asterathera ovata
12. Pleione aslo on the peat bank
13. Iris siberica
14. The colourful courtyard garden
15. Charming colour combination of the Sisyrinchium through the Carex leaves.
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16. Iris
setosa aff. 'Broadleigh Rose'(?)
17. fragrant Eleagnus
18. Helianthemum
19. New garden under construction
20. Another view through the courtyard garden - similar to a pic Fermi showed recently, who visited on the same day as us and we were delighted to bump into at The Garden House.
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Sat in he Mallorcan sun, glass of red in hand, enjoying pics from home. Glad you enjoyed your visit Matt.
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Lovely photos, Matt. Must try to visit if we ever venture down that way again.
I don't think pic 16 is Iris setosa, it looks to me like one of the Pacific Coast hybrid irises - maybe Broadleigh Rose (there are several named irises with those pinky-brown colours.
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Lovely photos, Matt. Must try to visit if we ever venture down that way again.
I don't think pic 16 is Iris setosa, it looks to me like one of the Pacific Coast hybrid irises - maybe Broadleigh Rose (there are several named irises with those pinky-brown colours.
Thank you Carolyn! The Iris looked familiar, but I couldn't put a name to it.
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Dates for Wildside 's open days in 2019 ....
opening times on each of these dates will be 11am to 5pm.
April 5th - 7th
May 17th - 20th
June 27th - 30th
July 11th - 14th
and July 28th - 31st
These dates correspond in an average year with the main seasonal peaks of flowering. Notable amongst which are
April (Magnolias and spring bulbs)
May (Azaleas, Japanese maples, Rodgersias, Wisterias, Iris, candelabra Primulas)
June (Massed perennials especially Dieramas)
July (Massed perennials including Agapanthus, Campanulas, Lilies) Admission £6.50
The Nursery - The nursery is not open to the public at any time but we will be selling a selection of the plants we grow at the garden entrance on our garden open days. A selection of Ros Wiley's oil paintings and greetings cards will also be available at this point. The nursery is not open at any other times.
Unfortunately we do not have a tea-room and much of the garden is not accessible for wheelchairs and pushchairs because of the very narrow paths. Although dogs are not allowed in the garden there is ample opportunity for unlimited 'walkies' on the moor just over a mile away prior to a visit
Group visits We are happy to accept groups of over 25 in number on other days in May, June & July only from 10am - 4pm. The admission for groups of this size is £5.50 / head (Please note there is a minimum admission charge for any group of £140 if visiting on a date other than those listed above). Should you require a pre-booked guided tour with Keith Wiley this will be an additional £50 / group (normally lasts 75-90 minutes)
Wildside Nursery - Green Lane, Buckland Monachorum
Nr. Yelverton, Devon, PL20 7NP
T: 01822 855 755
E: wildside.plants@virgin.net
http://wileyatwildside.com/index.html (http://wileyatwildside.com/index.html)