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- 28 Aug, 2008
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So much to see, And the colours are Amazing, Absoloutly Gorgeous, :)
28 Aug, 2008
Superb, Fourseasons, fabulous interesting colours!
8 Sep, 2008
What a great place to sit and enjoy everything!
4 Oct, 2008
OMG ... I wish
4 Oct, 2008
now see...I would like this... for my yards...lots of bench spots, no lawn though... :-)
5 Oct, 2008
is this a Botanical Garden.Its soo perfect and nice.?
26 Oct, 2008
No, Eckie, this is just a private garden measuring approximately one third of an acre (178 foot long and 52 foot wide). My husband and I share a passion for gardening - which is helpful! With the time, energy and money involved, it has to be a joint venture. We will both be retiring by the end of next year, so we will have more time but less money!!!
With both of us working full time, it's been a frantic year with 7 open days and 7 days of filming so far for BBC Gardeners' World. Next year we are planning 10 open days, starting in February - the depth of our winter, and finishing in October - when it will be mid autumn.
26 Oct, 2008
fantastic garden!!
21 Feb, 2009
Amazing garden
15 Mar, 2009
WOW!!! The best sloping border I have ever seen. How did you do that? I am only a beginner, oh it is soooo lovely.
5 May, 2009
Welcome Michaela!
The border is in terraces supported by large rocks. The colourful flowers are begonias and they are in containers of one, two or three tiers. We can quickly remove them in the autumn and store the corms for the winter. Without the containers of flowers we can then appreciate the changing leaf colours of the acers and azaleas.
In the spring we have lots of azalea colour and supplement that with pots of daffodils and tulips which, again, we can move when they are over their best. We store them in a corner of the garden out of the way so that the leaves can die down naturally.
5 May, 2009
I am so jealous - I am a novice gardener and am trying to learn through trial and error. I find mistakes can be very expensive. This year I am buying more perenials and shrubs to save having to buy so many bedding plants every year.
I would love a garden like this. I would never want to go to work, just sit and look at the flowers all day...
15 May, 2009
Beautiful cannot find any other words except stunnimg amazing and i'm so jealous !! lol
29 May, 2009
Just beautiful
2 Jun, 2009
This looks like it would look equally lovely in the winter months - with so many conifers - absolutely gorgeous
23 Jul, 2009
I'm utterly gob-smacked, speechless.
3 Oct, 2009
Me too! It's just.....WOW
3 Oct, 2009
Thank you all for your kind comments. We've been rather hectic recently - but things should quieten down - we both retired this week!
5 Oct, 2009
Wow! Gorgeous!
7 Nov, 2009
beautiful, just embarking on our garden in our new house, we have a blank..ish canvas, so lots of time and money to be spent, maybe some time b efore we achieve anything like yours
29 Dec, 2009
absolutely stunning
4 Feb, 2010
Would not know where to even start! I bow down to your gardening expertise!
19 Mar, 2010
Thank you for your kind comments.
We are very honoured that the national garden scheme selected a photo of almost exactly this view of our garden in spring for their 2010 Yellow Book.
It is the back ground photo on the "Welcome to The Yellow Book" page.
19 Mar, 2010
Amazing garden, id just love it. How do you stop the weeds from appearing?
27 Apr, 2010
We don't tolerate weeds! One year's seeding - 7 years weeding. When one pokes its head up we winkle it out. Some are masters of disguise but we spot them in the end. We do put a layer of chunky forest bark on the borders - but that doesn't stop perennial weeds such as dandelions - these have to be rooted out beforehand.
27 Apr, 2010
its outstandingly beautiful its ur pics are the resone i joined this site hope my slope looks like this one day
27 Sep, 2010
What can i say except WOW love it (is this heaven)
14 Mar, 2011
I've never seen a garden as exquisite as this before. What can I say as I cannot find a superlative that hasn't been said before regarding your much to be envied kaleisoscope of colour.How I wish I could come to see it.
bredakelly
29 May, 2011
Sorry this is my comment on fourseasons garden.
29 May, 2011
It will be an interesting summer this year. Having retired 18 months ago, last year we had 13 open days and our daughter's wedding reception marquee in the garden. This year is our first opportunity to really have a break.
We have reduced our open days down from 13 throughout the year to just 4 in May. May was stunning with azalea colour and we welcomed 740 visitors over the two weekends and raised £2,250 for charity.
Having successfully over-wintered the begonias, for this summer we will have just a few pots of them dotted about. It will be interesting to see the summer garden when it will be mainly colour from acers and conifers foliage.
30 May, 2011
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stunning garden as usual
28 Aug, 2008