We hope you have enjoyed the SRGC Forum. You can make a Paypal donation to the SRGC by clicking the above button
Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Welcome,
Guest
. Please
login
or
register
.
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
Caps lock is activated.
News:
Click Here To Visit The SRGC Main Site
Home
Forum
Help
Login
Register
Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
»
General Subjects
»
Travel / Places to Visit
»
Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
« previous
next »
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Down
Author
Topic: Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08 (Read 1964 times)
David Nicholson
Hawkeye
Journal Access Group
Hero Member
Posts: 13117
Country:
Why can't I play like Clapton
Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
«
on:
August 20, 2008, 09:44:03 PM »
Having not yet managed a Wednesday day out throughout August because of bad weather we really intended to go out today whatever the weather. It wasn't a good day, with grey overcast skies and periods of heavy drizzle, but we decided to go to Rosemoor our 'local' RHS garden.
Rosemoor is in North Devon, near the small town of Great Torrington which, as the historians amongst you will know, was the site of a battle in 1646 with the Roundheads victorius and the Royalists slaughtered by the New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax.
Main transport links in Devon, through to Cornwall, run East/West, so the 60ish mile trip to Rosemoor takes me just short of 2 hours and means crossing Dartmoor. Now every sheep and wild pony on Dartmoor appears to have been informed that the Nicholsons were coming and therefore, on spying our car, hurled themselves from the piece of grass they were grazing to the piece of grass on the opposite side of the road directly in front of the car. Thus, the drivers stock of both printable, and indeed un-printable, expletives were well aired!
It would seem also that it was necessary for every driver of a tractor in Devon (and there are many!) to wish to occupy that sector of the road occupied by the Nicholsons car.
Having arrived at Rosemoor, and ready for the soup and a piece of lemon drizzle cake (for I am a creature of habit) I found that today was 'Family Fun Day' and therefore masses of small people, together with their Mums and Dads, had descended on Rosemoor to do all kinds of things to do with Beatrix Potter. Over lunch, and probably because they thought I resembled Mr. McGregor, I was set upon for 'inside' information by a family from Toronto who insisted on addressing me as 'Sir', a title I could get used to!
Apart from the weather which, to say the least, was mixed it was a very nice day and I hope you will enjoy some pictures of views and plants that caught my eye.
Rosemoor is situated at the bottom of a steep sided valley and is a frost pocket. When it is cold, it is very cold at Rosemoor, and equally when it is hot it can be stifling. Today, as it has been for most of the Summer, it was just wet.
The first three pix are general views; the next three are of the 'Hot Garden' (perhaps not the best name for it this year!).
Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'
Dahlia 'Bishop of Oxford'
Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff' 1
Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff' 2
Logged
David Nicholson
in Devon, UK Zone 9b
"Victims of satire who are overly defensive, who cry "foul" or just winge to high heaven, might take pause and consider what exactly it is that leaves them so sensitive, when they were happy with satire when they were on the side dishing it out"
David Nicholson
Hawkeye
Journal Access Group
Hero Member
Posts: 13117
Country:
Why can't I play like Clapton
Re: Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
«
Reply #1 on:
August 20, 2008, 09:53:39 PM »
...... and more from Rosemoor.
Dahlia 'Moonfinger'
Kniphofia 'Toffee Nose'
An unknown Nerine-many in good leaf but this was only one I saw in flower.
A bit potty-I didn't do the modelling for this.
Cyclamen hederifolium.
Rhododendron pachysanthum-and full of plump buds
Rhododendron impeditatum 1-should this be in full flower at this time of the year?
Rhododendron impeditatum 2-up close
Lilium longiflorum.
Helleborus Hybrid-dotted around the garden many Hellebores were in flower, what a crazy year!
Logged
David Nicholson
in Devon, UK Zone 9b
"Victims of satire who are overly defensive, who cry "foul" or just winge to high heaven, might take pause and consider what exactly it is that leaves them so sensitive, when they were happy with satire when they were on the side dishing it out"
David Nicholson
Hawkeye
Journal Access Group
Hero Member
Posts: 13117
Country:
Why can't I play like Clapton
Re: Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
«
Reply #2 on:
August 20, 2008, 09:57:38 PM »
..... and the final few.
Hibiscus syriacus 'Meehanii'
Roscoea auriculata
Hemerocalis 'Michele Coe'.
Rosa Molyneux 'Ausmol'
Logged
David Nicholson
in Devon, UK Zone 9b
"Victims of satire who are overly defensive, who cry "foul" or just winge to high heaven, might take pause and consider what exactly it is that leaves them so sensitive, when they were happy with satire when they were on the side dishing it out"
Gerdk
grower of sweet violets
Hero Member
Posts: 2929
Re: Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
«
Reply #3 on:
August 21, 2008, 06:27:38 AM »
David,
Thank you for these impressions, especially for showing an idea to create a hot spot in a cold and wet northern summer!
Gerd
Logged
Gerd Knoche, Solingen
Germany
shelagh
Hero Member
Posts: 1729
Country:
Black Pudding Girl
Re: Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
«
Reply #4 on:
August 21, 2008, 07:56:41 AM »
Great pictures David, somewhat different from the trench-foot weather we are having in Bury.
Logged
Shelagh, Bury, Lancs.
"There's this idea that women my age should fade away. Bugger that." Baroness Trumpington
Katherine J
Hero Member
Posts: 521
Lurking and learning
Re: Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
«
Reply #5 on:
August 21, 2008, 08:26:07 AM »
Thank you for taking us with you, David, it must be a nice place, and wet or not, your pix are so beautiful!
Logged
Kata Jozsa - Budapest, Hungary
Zone 6
http://gardenonbalcony.blogspot.com
Luc Gilgemyn
VRV President & Channel Hopper
Hero Member
Posts: 5528
Country:
Re: Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
«
Reply #6 on:
August 21, 2008, 08:28:29 AM »
Nice little outing David and beautiful shots of what looks like a great garden...
I must say, I particularly enjoyed your literary outburst in describing the British countryside and its population...
Logged
Luc Gilgemyn
Harelbeke - Belgium
Paul T
Our man in Canberra
Hero Member
Posts: 8435
Country:
Paul T.
Re: Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
«
Reply #7 on:
August 22, 2008, 06:21:14 AM »
Very nice, David. Was that a variegated Hibiscus syriacus I spied in there? oooooooh!
Great looking garden. Thanks for sharing the pics.
Logged
Cheers.
Paul T.
Canberra, Australia.
Min winter temp -8 or -9°C. Max summer temp 40°C. Thankfully, maybe once or twice a year only.
David Nicholson
Hawkeye
Journal Access Group
Hero Member
Posts: 13117
Country:
Why can't I play like Clapton
Re: Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
«
Reply #8 on:
August 22, 2008, 09:45:04 AM »
Yes Paul, it was.
Logged
David Nicholson
in Devon, UK Zone 9b
"Victims of satire who are overly defensive, who cry "foul" or just winge to high heaven, might take pause and consider what exactly it is that leaves them so sensitive, when they were happy with satire when they were on the side dishing it out"
Paul T
Our man in Canberra
Hero Member
Posts: 8435
Country:
Paul T.
Re: Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
«
Reply #9 on:
August 22, 2008, 12:09:05 PM »
Thanks David. I don't think I have ever heard of a variegated one before. Great to see it (and everything else). Thanks again.
Logged
Cheers.
Paul T.
Canberra, Australia.
Min winter temp -8 or -9°C. Max summer temp 40°C. Thankfully, maybe once or twice a year only.
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Up
« previous
next »
Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
»
General Subjects
»
Travel / Places to Visit
»
Visit to RHS Rosemoor-20 August 08
Scottish Rock Garden Club is a Charity registered with Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR): SC000942
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal