WEST ACRE GARDENS, KING'S LYNN, NORFOLK

[ranunculus]

A series of images captured yesterday on the day after presenting a lecture to the Norfolk Group of the A.G.S.
Some were taken during a fleeting visit to West Acre Gardens, near King’s Lynn and the rest in the lovely garden of my very hospitable hosts; Phil and Diane Blyth of Norwich. My thanks to them both for their friendliness and generosity.
It was a pleasure to talk to such an enthusiastic group and my thanks to forum member Tony Goode for his kind invitation.

The observant among you may notice that the sky has been enhanced in one or two of the images.   

[ranunculus]

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[Maggi Young]

Enhancement of the sky? In Norfolk?? Where the weather has been good enough for the Eremurus ( A16 -A17) to be in full flower?   I'm incredulous, I tell you!

We really need that elusive button for  scent on the forum forthat gloriously rich red moss rose in A2 .... bet it was yummy!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Another thank you for another series of gorgeous pix Cliff ! 
The white Delphinium in a11 is impressive !! 

Thanks again Sir ! 

[Paul T]

Excellent, Cliff.

[Paddy Tobin]

Great photos, Cliff.

I would love to be able to grow the eremurus but my soil is too wet for them.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

Great photos, Cliff.

I would love to be able to grow the eremurus but my soil is too wet for them.

Paddy

We haven't had long-term success with Eremurus, either. We put it down to not enough sun and heat for them to make flower buds.... they do hang on, just    I don'tthink that ours were in too wet a site....so perhaps there are lots of reasons for  failure....... oh dear, I'm not sure whether that is any comfort or not? 

[ranunculus]

Many thanks folks ...

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Still in West Acre Gardens ...

[Maggi Young]

How fortunate that you were there on the day of the "how many bees can dance on one flowerhead?" competition ?  Hotly contested , I see.

I was not expecting to see a stand of Epilobium in a border    ....... one man's weed...... again! 

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[ranunculus]

There was a huge stand of white fireweeds as well, Maggi ...

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Last few from West Acre ... we'll move on to the Blyth's garden next...

[Maggi Young]

Good to see other entrants in the bee on a flowerhead comp!

I take it these are all outdoor shots, so  that Loasa was growing outside,too Cliff?  the red one in Pic A42?

[ranunculus]

Everything thriving outside in these lovely gardens, Maggi ... the Loasa growing against a high sheltering brick wall and beside a large; 'Beware, I sting!" sign.  My first visit to these free to enter (not free to leave as the nursery is so good) gardens and they are a must if you should be in the area.

Before I post some images of the plants in flower in the Blyth's Norwich garden I will ask you all to don your shades, adjust your screens, put out the cat (if it is on fire) and half close your eyes for the next two batches of images ...

I was born and raised in West Sussex and one of the joys of my childhood (apart from sticking things in my ears, the Eagle comic and Marmite) was to see enormous fields and hillsides covered in wild flowers - I relived my formative years near Swaffham on the journey home and had to stop the car on five or six occasions as the vistas became redder and redder ...

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[Maggi Young]

WOW !!!! How fabulous a sight is that?   makes me feel thirty years  younger and a hundred times more cheerful - a real delight.