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Garden visiting…..remember that?

12 Friday Feb 2021

Posted by Brian Skeys in Garden visiting, Gardening, Photography, The Life of Brian.

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Dahlias, Garden visiting, NGS

Aston Pottery Garden.

Having read some impressive reviews about the garden at Aston Pottery, Aston, Oxfordshire, we visited in August 2016.

On this occasion, they were open in aid of the National Gardens Scheme charity.

Created by the owners since 2009 and set around Aston Pottery’s Gift Shop and Cafe, borders flower from June until November.

In the spring 5000 tulips are planted in pots around the shop and cafe, these are then followed by lilies and agapanthus. They created a wonderful pot display when we visited.

The Garden.

60 hornbeams flank the 72-metre Hornbeam Walk, opened in 2012 by the local MP David Cameron, planted as a year-round garden with a summerhouse at the end, and a mix of perennials and annuals which are enjoyed by pollinators.

You then arrive at the 80-metre Hot Bank with kniphofia, alstroemeria, cannas, dahlias and salvias.

There are stunning Double Dahlia Borders 5m deep with over 600 dahlias and grasses edging the back. 

New in 2015 was an 80m x 7m deep Annual Border full of over 5000 annuals grown from plug plants.

A traditional Perennial Border with over 50 different perennials offers a wonderful view from the country cafe.

The garden has featured in the Telegraph, Country Living, RHS The Garden and BBC Gardeners’ World. They have been producing pottery for over thirty years suppling Liberty’s of London.

When garden visiting begins again, this is a garden I would recommend, it is a stunning riot of colour. They are planning to open for the National Garden Scheme this year on the 21st and 22nd of August and are normally open seven days a week except over the Christmas period. The pottery shop and cafe make it ‘A Grand Day Out’.

I have created the video below from photographs I took during our visit, to remind us all of the joy of Garden Visiting! 

Please select full screen.

Autumn Colours, Music and Poetry.

29 Thursday Oct 2020

Posted by Brian Skeys in Gardening, Landscapes, Our Garden@19, The Life of Brian., Treelife

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Aster, Autumn, Dahlias, Grasses, trees, Videos

A video of the changing autumn colours in Our Garden@19 and some borrowed landscape. I filmed this over a two week period to record the changing colours. Please turn your sound on and select full screen to enjoy.

What is providing you with Autumn colour?

With the requirement in most countries to wear a face mask due to the Covid19 pandemic smiling at people is difficult. I have read that an eyebrow smile works, this Spike Millagan poem brought a smile to my eyebrows.

Autumn Colour in Our Garden@19

01 Monday Oct 2018

Posted by Brian Skeys in Gardening, Our Garden@19, Photography, Plantlife

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Aster, Autumn, Dahlias, Malus Golden Hornet, Roses

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The Blue Border.

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Parthenocissus tripcuspidata (Boston Ivy)behind the Banana Bench.

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Dahlia ‘After Eight’ & ‘Bishop of Llandaff’

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Dahlia ‘Snowstorm’

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Rose The Generous Gardener.

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Rose Climbing Iceberg

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Aster divaricatus

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Cirsium rivulare ‘Trevor’s Blue Wonder’

 

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Symphyotrichum n.a ’ Harringtons Pink’

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Symphyotrichum ‘Little Carlow’ & Solidago Fireworks

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Symphyotrichum na ‘ Barrs Violet ‘

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Fuchia ‘Mrs Popple’

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Fuchia magellanica alba

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Ipomoea lobeta with Verbena Bonariensis

 

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Sambucus nigra ‘Aurea’ & Amelanchier ‘Lamarckii’

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Sorbus ‘Eastern Promise’

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Hydrangea 

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Arum italicum subsp. italicum ‘Marmoratum’

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Polypodium Bifidomultifidum

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Cotoneaster horizontalis & Cyclamen hederifolium

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Malus ‘Golden Hornet’.

The National Garden Scheme has posted this quote on their website.

“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.” William Cullen Bryant (1794 – 1878)

You can view their Autumn Smile here

What is making you smile this Autumn?

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