The Day After......

Wonderful place to visit, enjoyed the tour, pity everything was so late, still as you say a lift, we all need some sunshine this cold weather is such a damper to ones spirits.

~good for you!Nice blog!

beautiful photos Spritz, i love the grassy slope and the handkerchief tree,the lutea is a new one on me too ideal with children..thank you for the nice stroll i have just had ..loved it :o)

Thank u 4 day in ur live. Wish I cud have been there 2. It's a lovely place. I sure miss places like that. Lovely pics.

What a nice way to spend the day in a lovely garden and you still have the joy of placing your lovely new plants :o)

Enjoyed the tour around as usual ;:~) Lovely photographs
The Geraniums are coming on slowly but surely. Almost lost them but that's another story

thanks for the tour Spritz, I've never managed to tour round this place, it's always been closed when I get there :(
As for the plants, lovely choice, Berry Smoothie is a very good grower :))
I have the banksia rose too, it's a real beauty isn't it :))))

Grindle, whenever i see or hear about the banksia i think of you and yours !!!

A great blog Spritz but why do you need a lift when you return to your own, beautiful garden?

She probably needed a lift to help her forget me .... whining that i was so cold all day ;-)

Thanks, all - it's such a lovely place to visit. :-)))

Oh Louise!!!!! Tsk, tsk....As if! Toto - just felt a bit 'flat' after Malvern, that's all....but it was lovely to get amongst my own flowers!

I'm pleased that you have this rose, Grindle - it's going to look wonderful very soon - how's yours doing? This garden is also open by appointment this year - check out the 'Yellow Book'.

Pip - I'm sending you a PM.

Lovely blog as always, Spritz, you never disappoint! Was so full of lergy by the time we got home from Malvern, that last few days have all been a bit of a blur, but am so glad we went,despite the weather! You,Louise,June and Rebecca and Vicky were the highlight of my day~so who needed the sun,when there are fellow Goyers to meet???
Some wonderful purchases there my friend~and thank you so much for our guided tour around the gardens of 'The Court House'~absolutely lovely! Am so tempted by that 'Banksia rose' though........... :~))

What a great place to visit there are some lovely views,I agree with you about the Wisteria ,also pleased that you got Amy Doncaster from Malvern it is a lovely Geranium.

Thanks Flori - I'm sorry you're still poorly..Get well soon! The banksian rose gets mighty big, and needs to face south or west to do well, but the wait for the flowers will be worth it - I must go and take a look-see at the progress of the buds! :-)

Thanks Mavis - it's nice to know that I chose a good one! I can't wait for the masses of buds to open. :-)))

I think that could lift the spirits of anyone who took the time to wander around there, not only are the gardens gorgeous but the views of the hills and the estuary are beautiful.

Stunning views - and how fabulous is that Pieris - I've never seen one so large, really impressive with its new red leaves so startling against the green foliage. Can't believe the Wisteria's out - ours is still huddled against the cold with the flowers just burgeoning...

Loads of buds on mine Spritz, I really need to tackle it soon, the wind blew part of it down, but didn't damage it

Grindle, that's lucky! At least you won't get ripped to pieces dealing with this one. :-))

It's a very sheltered area, Bamboo, 'twixt sea and hills' as they say!

Thanks for the tour Spritz, wonderful pics as always, Sir Joseph's Rosa Banksia is a real beauty.

Thanks - it certainly is - and mine is almost in flower. :-))

Now you'll need to explain who Sir Joseph was, please!

Sir Joseph Banks, scientist, part of the party in Cook's landing at Botany Bay, Australia, Spritz - he must have something to do with this rose, I'd guess -yep, Banksii, meaning the man.

Did the Courthouse not have a plant sales area, Spritz? BTW love the heuchera :-))

That was an interesting place to visit. Well worth a small detour, especially since you were so near it.
Is that old church in the grounds of the house ? It's lovely isn't it..

Yes, Hywel - I suspect it was all connected once, probably used by the estate workers and house servants, as the house and church are about the same age. We didn't visit the church - I believe it's used by the nearby village now. I'd quite like to, though, as it must have seen a lot of history.

Thanks, Bamboo - interesting! :-)))

Wagger, they had a plant table, but I have to admit that I was disappointed, as there were only Iris laevigata (I have this), small Hebes and shrubby Salvias - quite a bright red, apparently cuttings from a plant in the grounds. Six quid each, too!

Ouch - message understood. Mind you, that's still cheap compared to Wyvale and Nottcutts GCs.

Bright scarlet isn't easy to place, is it, unless you have a sunny 'hot border', and mine is facing east, so the Salvia wouldn't thrive there. :-((

Magnificent scenery Spritz, nothing quite like it for lifting the spirit.

Perfectly true - I always wondered why this ancient family had two wonderful homes, and I bet the views here had a bearing on that. Lucky them!

Hi Spritzhenry
I just love the Rosa banksia Lutea, it is just perfect.

Thanks - mine is now FLOWERING!!! I'll post a photo this evening. :-)))))

I have a question for you, Spritz, re the Rosa banksiae - is it fragrant or not? My Reader's Digest Encyclopaedia says it is scentless and gets 20 feet - the RHS encyclopaedia says the flowers are "sweetly scented" and the plant reaches 30 feet. My mother in law had this up the front of their house, but I can't recall whether it had any fragrance or not.

That was a nice blog, in spite of chilly weather must have been a lovely visit.

I whizzed down to Malvern Show, but only to pick up & help transport fuchsias and bits of display stand back to my hometown for the North Worcester Fuchsia Society. The members who'd been there all day were on a high, because they said despite being supplied with plants that had hardly any flowers on yet, they'd enjoyed a lot of interest from visitors, good sales and lots of appreciative comments about how helpful and informative they were. So I just got an impression of the show as most people were packing away. It looked lovely, but if I'd gone any earlier in the day I'd have returned bankrupt. Lots of nice things, but seemed quite pricey? I wonder which stands you went to, apart from display gardens, and whether you can recommend any for next show? I may go down in the autumn to help, by which point some fuchsias should at least be flowering.

Bamboo - I went and sniffed it close up - no scent at all....

Weeding, I didn't find it too pricey, apart from one stand which Louise and I left alone! We probably looked at all the Nurseries, to be honest, as we both love plant-browsing. Must give a mention to Vicky's, though - it looked great and she was so helpful.

I can't really recommend one against another, though - that wouldn't be fair, as they all try so hard to have great displays and lots of choice.

A couple of outside ones worried us - the plants seemed leggy and were trussed up to canes!! I wouldn't buy a plant that looked like that, would you?

oo-er, no.

Poor plants....:-((((((

I don't understand why people would buy them like that ... is it just to cut them back again and let them start over ????
They look terrible !

If I'd had scissors with me, I'd have been sorely tempted to 'release' the poor things. Tsk, tsk.

Thanks Spritz - confirming once again that the RD Encyclopaedia tends to be more accurate than the RHS one.

Just seen this blog Spritz and enjoyed it muchly. I know what you mean about feeling flat after Malvern. I think it's because the wait is so long and the time there so short. It was time to head back to the coach before I had time to see half of what was on offer and it was too cold to take many pics:-( Cheered myself up yesterday (Saturday) with a visit to Fourseasons in Walsall, short bus ride for me, but never been. It was a lovely day and I'm doing a blog on my visit. I can remember the first time I saw a 'ghost/handkerchief' tree in full flower...magnificent. I think it was at Bodnant or Kew. I'm going to google your lychnis now.

We all need to do things like that on occasion, Ba, and you're spot on. It was also far too crowded in the 'indoor' parts to get the camera out, and too wet outside!

Looking forward to reading your blog - are their flowers late, as well?

I haven't googled the Lychnis - if you find anything interesting, do please let me know!

They don't really go in for perennials, and some azaleas appeared a little late, but others in full bloom, ditto tulips. You should see what they do with acers, amazing. As for your lychnis...all good, originally mis-named as silene robotii, flos jovis in its pedigree, it's even deer resistant!.....Very attractive to badgers though.......only joking;-)

LOL, ooh Ba, that's evil ;-)

SOB SOB..........Weep, weep, sniff, sniff......

Ah, bless :-)))
xx
Watch out Ba, Spritz might cast an evil spell ...... ;-)

I have ways............;^Z}

Oh nooooo:-(

So do NOT mention the forbidden word - b*****s........or else......;-(((((((

Can we call them 'the animals'? Bit like 'the Scottish play', lol.

Spritz, I've put Forseasons blog on now, but i don't know how to get the blog title in bold like everyone elses, any ideas? Good idea Wagger, I like that:-)

Ba, I've just read it, and the title 'is' bold! I think it does that automatically.

Yes, you can, Wagger, and the 'animals' have wreaked havoc yet again this morning.

"Life gets tedious, don't it?" Remember that one?

They are really giving you a hard time, aren't they? I hope you can tidy it up before your 'open days'........and no, I don't remember a song from 1948!!!! and don't believe you do either, lol. Somebody must have done a repeat of it twenty years later.

OH will cut the lawns, and if there are holes in them - we'll just have to explain, won't we!

I sort of remember bits of that song - only it was spoken, I think....I wouldn't remember it from 1948, no.

Loved every second of this blog. Great views, great commentary and great pics.....:o)

Thanks, Ob! That's lovely to hear. :-)