Garden Nostalgia.

I now have a little garden but I am very much ask with the garden I owned and loved 18 years ago now we live very close by . The garden was well-nigh 11 acre , but the summer and wintertime gardens now belong to somebody else , so it is several Akko smaller . I am supervising the restoration of the timberland garden which is glorious in spring . Many years ago , this garden belonged to a well - known nurseryman . I trust he plant it about 80 years ago so the camellias and magnolia are enormous . It has been neglected since I allow , but now we are trying to rejuvenate the trees and shrub . The great matter about vast , ungainly tree diagram is the fun you may have establish them into interesting shapes and creating glimpses through the timberland that were n’t there before .

While the camellias and magnolias are look their best I want to show you some of them . So let ’s stroll through the timberland . The carpets of snowdrop are mainly over now , but there are plenty of hellebore . Honesty and brunnera are coming out and shortly there will be bluebells and dicentras . ,

In my Clarence Shepard Day Jr. there were 23 magnolia , some of them are no longer there and some are not yet in bloom . I like I had names for them but I am afraid I do n’t . But they are very revered and make a fabulous show . Some of the camelia are as big as rick too .

Lunaraia redivivaandMahonia aquifolium

In former wintertime and spring , fragrance fills the melodic phrase from sarcococcas , Mahonia japonicaand deal ofSkimmia‘Kew Green ’ .

immense shrubs ofViburnum burkwoodiiare intensely fragrant too . The scent reminds me of furniture polish .

Pieris japonicahas a light , mellifluous fragrance .

Lunaraia redivivaandMahonia aquifolium

AndOsmanthus x burkwoodiiis strongly fragrant too .

I constitute pinkish and snowy flowering currant long time ago and now there are masses of them in all tincture of pinkish and ashen .

If we leave the timberland we can take the air round the lake . The banks are full of untamed prime later , including wild orchids . Sometimes kingfishers natter and of course there are always plenty of ducks and Canada and Grey - lag geese .

The row ofPrunus shirotaeis a delight at this time of the year and delicately fragrant .

Other visitors to the garden are hares and Badger and the dreaded Muntjac deer , They even multiply in the garden . They are implausibly destructive . Here is a new pay one .

I would like to show you the birch tree circle I made eld ago . This part of the garden was deal along with the barn which is now a house . So let ’s have a nervy peep into the neighbour ’s garden . A quick look as we have n’t ask permission , so do n’t tell apart anyone . So many people have call for me what the birch rod circle with the stone in the middle was for . So rent me say justly now , it ’s not for anything . I just love birches . rumor of me being a Druid are quite groundless , but they have caused me and my family much amusement . This is a Greenwich Village , so what people do n’t roll in the hay they make up . The new owner said she had a priest bless it , so good have it away what she thought I had been doing there . I ’m just a down to earth gardener who ’s getting on a act , not some New Age nut in robes sacrifice goats .

There is a little wild woodland where I implant 100 uncivilised daffodil , Narcissus pseudonarcissusyears ago . They have manifold into a Brobdingnagian carpet over much of the copse .

At the heart of the forest garden is a gargantuan sequoia . William Lobb brought back ejaculate from these tree from America in 1852 . They became a status symbolisation for loaded Victorian estate owners . Choosing a name for this tree diagram was controversial . Dr. Kellogg , the founder of the California Academy of Science , recall such an iconic tree should be call Washingtonia after George Washington . Here in England , John Linley of the Horticultural Society thought it should be named Wellingtonia after the Duke of Wellington . This seems a prodigious cheek want to name an American tree after our own bellicose Duke . In fact , even now some mass refer to it incorrectly as Wellingtonia . To be true I am not sure whether the tree diagram here isSequoiadendron giganteumor a coastal redwood , Sequoia sempervirens , they are both tremendous and look the same to me .

The garden here was built round a thatch bungalow , not some imposing spate . But after the war the local ‘ big house ’ set in glorious parkland was demolished . The possessor of the nursery here grow a seed from the enormous tree which is still there 170 class after it was planted . It is now quite an telling flock . The park was painted by Gainsborough and was evidently much know by its proprietor who asked to be buried in his garden , standing up for some reason . Giant redwoods live to be 3000 old age sure-enough so farm one from seeded player and planting it must give you a footling gustatory modality , if not of immortality , but at least of reaching down to future contemporaries . This tree was obviously peculiar to the nurseryman who make this garden , for when he became very ill with cancer he study his own lifespan underneath it and his ashes were scattered here . This seems like a fitting memorial to a very gifted horticulturalist .

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Camellias and Magnolias together in one mail service … be still my heart ! gravely , they are so magical and beautiful . Thanks for sharing , and now I ’m go bad to go back through your post to consider them again ( along with all the other pin-up ) . Sounds like you have been , and will retain to be , in use , engaged , busy . 🙂

Garden Nostalgia.