GARDEN VISITS

[ranunculus]

The final shots from the Vicarage... AMEN!

[art600]

What a beautiful garden and how wonderfully you have photographed it.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Stunning pictures Cliff !
What a grand place - I hope it is saved !

[Katherine J]

Very very beautiful pics everyone! I liked this thread very much, I hope it will continue.
Nowadays I have little time for the Forum  , so I have a lot to read, and it is still very slow here 

[Maggi Young]

Nowadays I have little time for the Forum  , so I have a lot to read, and it is still very slow here 

Kata, I am glad you are able to "visit" sometimes... we miss you! The slow Forum is very irritating for us all, I know. I do hope for some more improvement.
 

[TC]

I have been asked if there are anything else in flower after the Rhododendrons and similar species are over in the gardens I have featured in the Rhododendron section.  The answer is yes, although I have concentrated in these specialist gardens.  For a change, I thought I would show what Threave gardens was like yesterday.  This is a garden owned by the National Trust for Scotland and is next to the small town of Castle Douglas in the South West of the country.  It also has a residential school for training gardeners who can practice their newly acquired skills on site.  The plantings are beautifully arranged and the grounds are kept immaculate, no doubt due to the high numbers of trainee staff who are desperate to get low down and dirty.  I wonder if they will be as keen 40 years on !!.  I had the pictures in chronological order but when I try to post them, the system jumbles them up.
This will also be a marathon session as there are over 30 pictures.

Checking spelling errors !!

[TC]

I have spent about 30 minutes trying to post some more pictures in Garden visits but it keeps rejecting the postings.  I am trying this without pictures to see if it will take.

[TC]

Obviously it is something to do with the pictures.  I will give it one more try.

[TC]

Next lot

[TC]

Last few pictures

[Paul T]

Wonderful pictures Tom.  I particularly like the pictures of the mix of shades of candelabra primulas.... what a fantastic display.  Oh to have seed from that lot!! 

Cliff,

Lovely pics from the Vicarage.  Here's hoping that they're able to retain it.  Looks like a wonderful place.  I'm trying to work out where I can fit a bog garden like that here in my garden!! 

[Lvandelft]

Thank you so much Tom, for these wonderful pictures.
Now it's very clear to me, that a bit later in the year the gardens are
much more beautiful. We were two years ago just too early (or too late
for the early flowers.)
So this garden will come on my list again, though I was a little disappointed
when I was there in '06, but I had seen pictures 30 years ago and at that time there was
a very interesting rock garden and there were beautiful raised beds, which style
I since have tried to copy in my garden.
When going there mostly therefore it's understandable that I was a bit
disappointed when almost nothing of this was to see there.

[Paddy Tobin]

Not looking in at the forum regularly has the disadvantage of leading to retinal over-indulgence on return. What a tremendous run of photographs from Cliff and Tom. Many thanks to both of you.

Cliff, your photographs of the semi-demolished outdoor facilites reminds me of the description a friend from Missouri uses regularly to describe a well built person, though your photographs does make a lie of it, "as solid as a brick-built s..t house"

Paddy

[Kristl Walek]

I am as affected by the physical space and structure of a garden as by the plants.

Judy Wall is the owner of Rock Wall Gardens---the only alpine nursery in our area.
She and her husband have created a beautiful space in Ontario farm country, although you might imagine you were elsewhere.

The tower is an old stone silo, and the stone foundation from the old barn was left, and now forms the framework for the plants, the troughs, the artwork and Judy's beautiful stained glass.

So while there are plenty of plants and gardens, this does not focus of them, but rather intended as a stroll through a magical place....

[Kristl Walek]

and this is the "interior area" of the walls with just a few of Judy's creations.

the last picture is Judy herself, next to the newest addition (the stone table) in the customer sitting area.