Team Outing to Herefordshire.

[Giles]

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....

[Giles]

5 more

[Giles]

Now for the foliage:

[Giles]

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

[Giles]

Podophyllum hexandrum.

[Giles]

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

[Paddy Tobin]

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

[Giles]

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.

[Lvandelft]

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.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks for taking us along on these visits, Giles. 
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

[Giles]

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

[Maggi Young]

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

[Luc Gilgemyn]

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

[Gail]

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

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?

[Giles]

Horticulture.