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such a beautiful place:) thank you for sharing. Garden goes onto my list of places to see:) and fantastic photos - my favourite is black and white carpet.

Well worth the trip Kasy ~ next open day is 4th February, their website is:
www.ashwoodnurseries.com

What a gorgeous place! So many lovely borders, nioce grasses and acer - the holly is amazing! Pine cones are great :))))))))) So much lovely pictures , red euonymous is another real beauty - and nice photo of that heron :)))))))))))))))

bit of a long shot on the heron paul ~ as you can see ~ but it did really pause over the garden!

Amazing garden!!!!!!! Love all the sculptures too :))))

It is truly amazing I tried to include the main sculptures because someone on GoY was looking for them.

cool! it s really lovely blog :)

What a fantastic place, like you say a photographers paradise, .so many lovely plants and beautiful settings, just love it all and the statues sit into their surroundings perfectly. Thanks for sharing '0)))

I have taken a note of this garden under....Places to visit from GOY. It looks wonderful and so fresh for this time of year.

you are welcome PP ~ its too good to keep to myself ~ best to share!!!

It amazed me Linda!

oh how very beautiful, really lovely to see, thank you

Those pictures are amazing Sticki, really really beautiful planting, I wish I lived nearer to go and see it. It is such a fantastic sight and the colours are amazing, the fir tree and cones are fantastic as is all the garden and arrangement of plants and trees and sculptures. Amazing garden thank you.

You are welcome Olive! and thank you Cazcat!
It only opens a few times a year ~ but what a treat and so worth waiting for!!! Have to wait till february next time ~ weather permitting!!

what a wonderful place to visit, your photo;s are brilliant Sticki

thanks yorkshire ~ it was cloudy yesterday but very wet today so we were lucky! the pictures from john's garden always seem to work well ~ i think he is either an artist or a photographer?? but most certainly a master gardener!

How beautiful is that, Sticki! Such a wonderful place - and is that a canal in the background? Idyllic...

It is Karen, it runs the length of the garden.

Your photo`s are absolutely lovely Sticki, don`t know which part I like best, I could definitely wander around there for ages, thankyou for sharing...

thank you lincslass ~ glad you enjoyed it! i could stay there ages too!!
he opens the gardens for charity ~ im not sure who benefits most!!

great isnt it! it wouldnt fit in my garden [couldnt afford it either!!]

Hi Sticki, lovely photos again, i couldnt make it yesterday but as you say as good as ever whenever you go, ps. i think it is open in October for the NGS, cant remember what date though? :^)

ah, yes i forgot that ~ thanks daylily.

Oh, what a beautiful place....I can understand why you loved that Sticki. Absolutely stunning. I loved the Swans of all the statues, but they are all amazing! The autumn crocus are much earlier there...mine aren't even peeping up above the soil. My Acer hasn't begun to change colour either, nor the cherry tree.

My colchiums have been out about a week or possibly two karen
i have a feeling those swans looked better in the summer?

Beautiful , and must have been very enjoyable to visit. I enjoyed the music aswell. The holly was fascinating in the first pic too.

What an amazing place, Sticki! I'd love to visit. Thanks for taking us there. :-)))

I have been before Hywel but I didnt notice that holly last time ~ all the holly was cut into interesting shapes.
glad you liked the music ~ my son introduced me to it.

you're very welcome spritz ~ its well worth the trip.

Thank you for the link and info - hope I will be able to go next year:)

Thankyou Sticky for taking us to this lovely garden i realy enjoyed it.:)

you are welcome kasy and cmsue, glad you liked it.

This is a gorgeous garden, no wonder you want to visit more than once.
I don't have a favourite picture, they are all gorgeous. I think we would all aspire to have a garden as gorgeous as this, well most of us anyway. I love it.
Liked the picture of the Brunnera Sticki....are you going to re create this little scene?

well i would like to get some brunnera, but i dont suppose it will look like this!!
thank you for your lovely comments

We were hoping to visit John's garden but were unable to make it this year, I still say this is the best nurseries in the country, most of our plants came from Ashwood, spent every sunday here spanning over 20 years, really missed the nursery when we moved south, nothing to touch it here for quality ,and the dedication of the staff, and the food is excellent too. Thanks for the delightful photos, brings back many happy memories.

You are very welcome DD, you spent every Sunday here? I would have no money left!!

I wouldn't mind going there frequently, either! :-))

Yes, you'd love it Spritz, it's inspirational.
Thanks so much Sticki . . . just lovely to see it again. And as you say, it does look different in the changing seasons - I'm amazed at his Euonymus 'Alatus' being bright red already!

And amazed at you capturing that heron - brilliant. :))

I bought one of those euonymus!!!

I'm not surprised, Sticki, they're stunning!

Lovely purchase. :-))

just hope it takes well in my garden, thanks sheila and spritz

Music? Sticki, you really do take great pictures. How on earth did you get such a good one of the heron? I loved the black and white carpet too. I'm guessing ophiopogon and white colchicums? I have the former and am now thinking of introducing the latter as a result of your blog; it's strikingly individual. Also agree with others that you made an excellent purchase of the euonymus - never seen that before but it's stunning.

Not with it tonight. Know where to find music now!

Sticki we used to get in the car and say Ashwood and the car took us there lol and that is why we never had any money as most of it was spent at this lovely nurseries, looking forward to seeing pictures of the Euonymous, it is a spectacular shrub/tree.

Sticki we used to get in the car and say Ashwood and the car took us there lol and that is why we never had any money as most of it was spent at this lovely nurseries, looking forward to seeing pictures of the Euonymous, it is a spectacular shrub/tree.

mine is not very spectacular at the moment ~ only little and not red yet!!!

That was such a beautiful,peaceful walk Sticki, thank you, I had the music on, quite touching.

thank you ~ glad you liked it.

Wow what a garden you must have had a ball there,so much going on,beautiful ! thanks for sharing :)

you're welcome whdebor ~ certainly took plenty of photos!!

Oh, Sticki, what a fantastic blog and what a stunning place. Is it near where you live? It could be another place for us to visit next year. And, as ever great photos, thank you lots...

Thank you Breda, it's about 30 - 40 minutes car journey for me.
Definitely worth a visit if you can make it.

That has to be one of the most amazing gardens ever. Thank you for putting this on here. It's in my faves so that I have something to drool over during the horrible winter.

Sorry, laptop meltdown - only meant to post one comment!!

Computer has gone mental. Time to log off methinks.

thanks meadowland, no sadly none of those lovely statues are for sale ~dont suppose i could afford them anyway but it would have been nice to see some.
you're welcome frybo ~ its lovely isnt it!!
i think when you press add comment at the moment there is a pause and its very tempting to hit it twice??? im not sure but i know lots of people are having the same trouble.

Hiya Stick! Lag behind Lizzy here! Late as usual!! How did I miss this blog too? It's lovely Sticki, and I'm going to put it on favs, so I can see the differences between the two blogs and photos! Good catch on the heron too! Did you not feel really tempted to peel some of that lovely bark off, I don't know if I could have restrained myself... that tree definitely needed a hug! Lovely blog, Sticki!!

Ah, you should see my face! So many breathtaking shots. What a wonderful place! ...I shall look it up. Thanks so much for sharing, such a pleasure to view. <3

Thank you Libet - I did have to touch the bark - couldn't not!!
Thank you Tralamander, I don't think that garden could ever disappoint!

I disappear for a day or so, and what happens??? I nearly missed this! Fab-u-lous! Sticki we must come up in October..I just hope the weather holds!

P.S. Btw, I did a VERY SHORT(!) blog of John's garden "For Bornagain . . . " back in January, but with pics from an April visit - so it looks different again if anyone's interested. :))

Sticki, you have excelled yourself with this blog, the photos are beautiful and I shall add it to my Favourites for the Winter months ... thanks for sharing this garden ... :o)))

oh, thank you shirley! honestly its such a lovely garden, photos are not hard.
thanks sheila ~ it changes such a lot doesnt it ~ but never disappoints!!
thanks tet ~ have to check the diaries!!

Thanks Sticki, I have made a note along with all the others...

Wheyhey! Another West country Goyer!

Went in July Sticki and by the look of your photos its still looking brilliant.

i dont know how they do it stroller.

Looks amazing really must go there on next open day.My daughter lives in Wolverhamton so I could go on the way there.

best to check which days it is open michael ~ the gardens are only open a few days a year
http://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/index.php?id=8&option=com_content&task=view

lovely blog and photos sticki, especially love the ponds and planting around them, very pretty :o)

oh, thank you sanbaz and welcome back from your holiday!

yw sticki and thankyou, nice to be home and lovely to be doing my garden again :o))

:-)

Oh, lovely good night fairy tale. Thank you. My favourite from this blog is Marshmallow Ice Cream Hydrangea, definitely the most beautiful! And - a statue of a sitting girl and arrangement around.

i love the statues too katarina ~ i have a jigsaw puzzle of that one!! the marshmallow ice cream is not its real name ~ i made that up cos thats what i thought it looked like!!

What an amazing wander through the garden...so enjoyed it Sticki thankyou...

There is no doubt it is a most beautiful garden, and your photos are wonderful too.

thank you cinderella and crissue

You indoctrinated me so much, that today I bought in garden center sales "your" marshmallow ice cream hortensia. I was very lucky, I think. Or was it illusion de déja vu!

hope it grows as well for you as it does in this garden!! lucky you.

I hope so. We will see next year. This year for some reason my hortensia (I have 9 bushes) did not blossom, only Grandiflora did. So we will see.

beautiful pictures! thank you for sharing and recommending to me. I really liked the shot of the evergreen and cones (it's a cedar, not sure which species though) and the yellow oakleaf hydrangeas.

Hi RKwright, which are yellow oakleaf hydrangeas? Are they on the ninth pic from the bottom?

Yep, those are the ones. Pretty little shrubs, aren't they?

I didn't know what those yellow leaves were, thank you Rk, and thank you for your comments, I loved that cedar.

Hi Rkwright, I noticed you are an expert. Tell me, why are those so small shrubs. I bought one oakleaf hydrangea to my hydrangeas family this summer, but it is almost 1 m high- these look pretty small. Variety?

Most oakleaf hydrangeas can reach 2-3m tall and wide (some twice that much), it really varies with the variety. The yellow one is called Little Honey and is a sport of Pee Wee which is one of the dwarf varieties. Do you know which variety you got this summer?

Unfortunately not. I threw the label away.

Little Honey is a sweet name. Lol. Must be given by a good hearted gardener. Unfortunately I did not see this small sort anywhere here.

perhaps the nursery attached to this garden could help you katarina??
http://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/

You could always go to one of those places and snip a cutting. They root pretty easily and if you take it in the Spring, you can have a decent sized plant by the end of summer. That's how I ended up getting a Snowflake hydrangea :)

LOL. Will remember that.