Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: David Nicholson on February 15, 2019, 08:21:49 PM
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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/ (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.
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Beautiful stretches of Crocus tomassinianus, Iris reticulata, Heathers and a few Narcissus cyclamineus over the next two posts.
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and.....
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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.
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Many Hellebores throughout the garden so just a few here.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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'
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G. 'Doncaster's Double Scharlock'
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G. elwesii 'Fieldgate Tiffany'
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Sorry, this worked for the first set of pictures but it will not take them for the second batch and onwards. I will re-think!
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Galanthus elwesii 'Grayswood'
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Galanthus elwesii 'Natalie Garton'
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Galanthus elwesii 'Not Sickle'
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Galanthus elwesii 'Sickle'
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Galanthus 'Green Teeth'
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Galanthus 'Imbolc'
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Galanthus 'Marjorie Brown'
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Galanthus 'Martha MacLaren'
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Galanthus nivalis 'Chthonic'
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Galanthus nivalis 'Ecussion D'Or'
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Galanthus nivalis 'Angelique'
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Galanthus nivalis 'Viridapice'
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Galanthus plicatus 'E A Bowles'
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Galanthus plicatus 'John Long'
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Galanthus plicatus 'Percy Picton'
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Galanthus plicatus 'Wendy's Gold'
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Galanthus 'Primrose Warburg'
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Galanthus 'Sentinel'
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You had a lovely day for your visit, David - thanks for the photos.
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Galanthus 'Silverwells'
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Galanthus 'Terry jones'
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Galanthus woronowii 'Cider with Rosie'
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..... and to finish
Galanthus 'Melanie Broughton'
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Galanthus 'Trumps'
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