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Title: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Giles on May 25, 2010, 08:44:48 PM

Morning spent at Westonbury Mill Water Gardens.
A flat garden, with numerous streams passing through it.
Some nice plant combinations.
Must get a Salix lanata....

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Giles on May 25, 2010, 08:46:32 PM

5 more

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Giles on May 25, 2010, 08:48:24 PM

Now for the foliage:

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Giles on May 25, 2010, 09:12:47 PM

Afternoon: Hergest Croft.
National Collections of Betula and Acer (excl. japonicum).
The biggest Meconopsis I've ever seen: 5-6 inches diameter.

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Giles on May 25, 2010, 09:14:28 PM

Podophyllum hexandrum.

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Giles on May 25, 2010, 09:17:10 PM

Plant Rhododendron, water, stand back..........and wait 100 years.

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Paddy Tobin on May 25, 2010, 09:25:10 PM

Giles,

How lovely to have such places within your travelling distance. Great settings for gardens, great plantings and all very well presented in your photographs.

Nice to see Ribes speciosum and Berberis temolica, not so commonly seen unfortunately.

Paddy

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Giles on May 25, 2010, 09:38:28 PM

Thanks, Paddy.
Hergest Croft was the nicest garden I've ever seen.
Delightfully understated, mature, and at peace with itself.
College takes us out for a day of sightseeing to settle our nerves before the end of year exams.

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Lvandelft on May 25, 2010, 10:04:35 PM

Hergest Croft will stay on our "try to visit" list. Last year in October we were to short in time, alas :(
I looks very interesting Giles! Thanks for showing.

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Maggi Young on May 25, 2010, 10:17:58 PM

Thanks for taking us along on these visits, Giles.  8)
Hard to fathom that the candelabra primulas are so far in flower!

Please reconsider the Salix lanata.... they are lovely, but they can rival mile a minute vines for taking over when they get the notion :-X :P

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Giles on May 26, 2010, 02:20:26 PM

.......but I'd spent all morning stroking it, and we were already 'friends' ( ;))

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Maggi Young on May 26, 2010, 03:11:35 PM

Giles, I implore you, think of the encounter as a one night stand.... enjoy and move on!! :-X

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on May 26, 2010, 07:41:09 PM

Thank you Giles !!!
A wonderful garden, wonderfully pictured !
 :D :D

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Gail on May 27, 2010, 12:39:13 PM

Quote from: Maggi Young on May 25, 2010, 10:17:58 PM

Please reconsider the Salix lanata.... they are lovely, but they can rival mile a minute vines for taking over when they get the notion :-X :P

Sadly they didn't get the notion here.  My parents bought me one and I killed it (think it got too dry in a hot summer).

Hope the nerves settled well Giles - what exams are you doing?

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: Giles on May 27, 2010, 07:14:46 PM

Horticulture.

Title: Re: Team Outing to Herefordshire.
Post by: David Nicholson on May 27, 2010, 07:55:18 PM

All the best for the exams Giles.