We were excited to see Arundel Castle gardens after watching Carol Klein’s show. But it is closed on Mondays, although their website clearly stated otherwise, the day we were in town. So here some exterior shots of the castle and the village of Arundel.
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Since our morning garden was closed, we had extra time in the afternoon. We looked up near-by gardens on gardenvisit.com and found this Grade II Tudor house along with a twentieth century gardens owned by the National Trust.
Our next garden on this road trip around England is Gravetye Manor for drinks on the lawn, garden tour, luncheon, and finally coffee on the terrace. We are not staying in the house this time. A sunny and warm day to enjoy this masterpiece. Garden is only open for guests staying overnight in the house or reserved a table for lunch and afternoon tea I recall. The best way to experience this garden.
Our first stop on our 2024 Road Trip around England and Wales. Our last visit to this garden was in 2012 and lots has changed in twelve years.
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August 6th
August 1st
July 31 - Merton Borders delighted my eye with its layers of blue, yellow, chartreuse with dabs of pink. Composed of solidago, eryngium, echinops, mallow, a couple of grasses and tall daisies, this garden was planted in 2011. It has aged extremely well.
Great Dixter, nursery, Cephalaria alpina J sidewalk, grass roof tops, 15thc timber frame hall house, Lutyens 1912, fergus, sounds of school girls, tractors, workmanship, gardeners, roof, hedges and topiaries, orchids, exotic garden, giant fennel, roofer, experiment, colorful long border, Briza maximum, path guards,high garden, narrow paths, sambucus trained as small tree.
Scotney Castle, picturesque, Kalmia, green winged orchid, sandstone, agapanthus Gayles Lilac, wire support,
queen’s inn - Hawkhurst: good room and food.
Delos garden Dan Pearson, Dianthus cortunsian or cruentus?, Phlomis, white garden artemisia, absinthium, Allium moly, Luzula nivea, astrantia, evening primrose,
Sheffield Park, Montezumae Pine, Kalmia latifolia, very large rhododendrons, root system of felled tree, large beech with bluebells, old yews, Giant Sequoia, 125 year old maple, Bodant rhododendron, scenes for painting, chamaecypris nana, Cirsium atropurpureum,
Wollemia nobilis, sequoia, orchids, Cedrus lobebii, kornus and handerchief, Craspedia globosa, phyllocladus glauca, leptosperum?, curry plant, ixia?, pittosporum alchemillia, geranium, burgundy alliums, dark rutabeckia, verbena, eryiron, Catalpa, pink and yellow, cornus kousa Satomi, orange and purple, rose garden, columns of Queen of Sweden, rosa white pet, delphinium and euphorbia,
Catalpa fargesii duclouxii, italian garden, leaf patterns, palm flowers with bees, yew ground cover, Garraya, Liriodendron?, bumblebees on Rhododendron, reuse green waste, Stephanie's glade, roses, Rogue Valley Rose nursery in Oregon, make plant stakes metal with seed pods,
Jubilee celebration, Platy Jubes in Cuckfield
National collection of 19th century roses, largest plane tree in uk, Plantain?, wier, meadow, roses, campanula, comte du Chambord, Lady Hillingdon, Alliums, Irises, blue magenta, macedonia, white forb?, petite de Hollande, Crambe and Thalicrum, Complicata, Fru Dagmar Hastrup,
