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A thread for sharing photos of gardens you like, ones you visit or your very own.
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A thread for sharing photos of gardens you like, ones you visit or your very own.
Went to England in 2009 with my wife where we saw 17 gardens of my choosing and a lot of art venues which she chose. Here are photos from one of the last we visited in Walsall, near Birmingham.  They call it the Four Season Garden.  Most of these photos I took but our host Tony took some too and his wife Marie sent them to us.

This is the view from the porch where we had lunch, officially tea, but more like Christmas and Thanksgiving dinner rolled into one.

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Our lovely hosts.

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The lawn in the ornate upper garden, nearest the house.

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Our hosts standing in the upper garden.

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The gazebo in the asian themed middle garden.

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Another photo Tony took of us beside the gazebo.

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Looking back up to the house from the gazebo.

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A photo I took of Fox lily paired with the photo Tony took of me taking it.

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They call the bottom of the garden "the jungle" and his has this stream feature and lots of tropical foliage plants.

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At the far bottom of the garden is a little hut they call the "love shack".  Lia trying it out.

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A thread for sharing photos of gardens you like, ones you visit or your very own.
Utterly beautiful. Have you ever had your garden portrayed in a magazine?
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A thread for sharing photos of gardens you like, ones you visit or your very own.
I believe they have and they’ve won awards and do open day for charity all the time.

So far I’ve only done avG C open day.
"Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. 
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A thread for sharing photos of gardens you like, ones you visit or your very own.
In July 2014 we visited Nymans, a National Trust property just a few miles from where we then lived in West Sussex, England.

We spent most of a day there exploring the gardens and the partially restored house, with a picnic lunch on a bench in the shade of a huge tree followed by ice cream later in the afternoon at the on site cafe. Oh, and a visit to their second hand book shop. 


Summer Borders
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Wall Garden
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Wall Garden Water Feature
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Wall Garden Summer Borders
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Courtyard External
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Courtyard Restored House
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Courtyard Internal
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Courtyard Topiary
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Fire Damaged Main Facade
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Rock Garden
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A thread for sharing photos of gardens you like, ones you visit or your very own.
Nymans, page two.


Rock Garden 2
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Pergola
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Grass Path 1
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Grass Path 2
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Grass Path 3
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South African Garden 1
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South African Garden 2
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South African Garden 3
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Folly in the Sunk Garden
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Macro of a rose in the Sunk Garden
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Reading the NT Nymans web pages I see that "Over the next three years we'll be making essential repairs to the ruins with the aim of opening them to visitors." Definitely worth another visit in a few years to see inside the ruins, and also to have a wander around the 275 acres of woodland we didn't have time to look at back in 2014.
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A thread for sharing photos of gardens you like, ones you visit or your very own.
(01-27-2019, 02:18 PM)Finite Monkeys Wrote: In July 2014 we visited Nymans, a National Trust property just a few miles from where we then lived in West Sussex, England.

We spent most of a day there exploring the gardens and the partially restored house, with a picnic lunch on a bench in the shade of a huge tree followed by ice cream later in the afternoon at the on site cafe. Oh, and a visit to their second hand book shop. 

Wall Garden Water Feature
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We visited here too in 2009 and I thought it was special too.  That fountain really fit the spot so well.

But the thing that I liked the best was the plants growing in the ruined part of the house.  I found it hard to get a photo that had the impact of actually being there but here is what I got.

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(01-27-2019, 02:18 PM)Finite Monkeys Wrote: Courtyard Topiary
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That topiary hedge is so iconic.  This is a picture I got of it from the other side in 2009.

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(01-27-2019, 02:18 PM)Finite Monkeys Wrote: [continued]

I'll look forward to your second installment.
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A thread for sharing photos of gardens you like, ones you visit or your very own.
(01-27-2019, 02:33 PM)Mark Wrote: We visited here too in 2009 and I thought it was special too.  That fountain really fit the spot so well.

But the thing that I liked the best was the plants growing in the ruined part of the house.  I found it hard to get a photo that had the impact of actually being there but here is what I got.

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Ha! I did wonder if you had visited Nymans on your great garden tour. I found the history of the Messel family fascinating, especially the part about Colonel Leonard Messel not being allowed to go on active duty with the British army in WWI due to his German heritage.

I also have photos of those plants growing in the ruins. Somewhere, but my "Pictures" folder is mostly chaotic - 56.7GB and 14,578 files of "it's in here somewhere". I really must get started on tidying it all up, but my procrastinating just makes the task bigger and more daunting ...
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(01-27-2019, 02:51 PM)Finite Monkeys Wrote:
(01-27-2019, 02:33 PM)Mark Wrote: We visited here too in 2009 and I thought it was special too.  That fountain really fit the spot so well.

But the thing that I liked the best was the plants growing in the ruined part of the house.  I found it hard to get a photo that had the impact of actually being there but here is what I got.

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Ha! I did wonder if you had visited Nymans on your great garden tour. I found the history of the Messel family fascinating, especially the part about Colonel Leonard Messel not being allowed to go on active duty with the British army in WWI due to his German heritage.

I also have photos of those plants growing in the ruins. Somewhere, but my "Pictures" folder is mostly chaotic - 56.7GB and 14,578 files of "it's in here somewhere". I really must get started on tidying it all up, but my procrastinating just makes the task bigger and more daunting ...

Fortunately for me I put the best of my photos from my 2008 grand tour (faulty memory) on flickr and that has made it easier to access.  Of course most of what I've stored there is just a jumble but most visits to major gardens made it into an album which I can find.  Looking back over the albums I see that we visited two garden that day (June 25) with the other being West Green garden.  These we saw en route from East Sussex where we had visited Sissinghurst, Great Dixter and the town of Rye to Salisbury where we would meet my flickr friend for lunch who helped me tremendously with recommendations and accompanied us on a visit to a large private garden estate and later Heale House garden.

We'll have to work our way up sharing photos of our own gardens.  But right now I'm thoroughly enjoying reminiscing over great gardens in your neck of the woods.  We have a few of those here in California but no where near as many as you have there.
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(01-27-2019, 02:20 PM)Finite Monkeys Wrote: Nymans, page two.

Rock Garden 2
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Pergola
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Reading the NT Nymans web pages I see that "Over the next three years we'll be making essential repairs to the ruins with the aim of opening them to visitors." Definitely worth another visit in a few years to see inside the ruins, and also to have a wander around the 275 acres of woodland we didn't have time to look at back in 2014.


... It's unbelievable ... just amazing ... I was in a very similar place last May with Poca ... on the way, when we were coming back from Eastbourne via Brighton to Oxford rather to Abingdon, we saw a magnificent castle up the hill from the highway and we decided go there ... It was a beautiful little town with an amazing castle, a cathedral and this wonderful garden and conservatory ... I have to look for my photos from this place ... it's really beautiful !!! and these two gardens look so similar ... at first I thought I was right there ... but this city name doesn't suit me ... my place was called Arundel!

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..and your garden Mark is always wonderful at any time of the year!!!!
Elmyra- i'm gonna hug you and love you and squeeze you into itty bitty pieces...until you die!!!
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Cool. Where was this?
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(01-27-2019, 03:55 PM)KittyAnn Wrote:  ... my place was called Arundel!

...

Wow. Three years ago we moved to a village which is about a five minute drive from Arundel!

Surprisingly I've still not visited the castle and gardens, although it's definitely on the To Do list. I got quite close in April 2015 when the football team we support played Arundel FC away. The castle is just behind the trees in this pic -

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(01-27-2019, 05:36 PM)Mark Wrote: Cool.  Where was this?

As Finite Monkeys said it was in Arundel in UK...there is really awesome...tomorrow i'll try to find my photos from this place or i'll ask Poca Big Grin
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(01-27-2019, 06:07 PM)KittyAnn Wrote:
(01-27-2019, 05:36 PM)Mark Wrote: Cool.  Where was this?

As Finite Monkeys said it was in Arundel in UK...there is really awesome...tomorrow i'll try to find my photos from this place or i'll ask Poca Big Grin


Wonderful.
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A tiny piece of the Morrocan Gardens, an indoor spot of green for the citizens of St. Louis and Missouri.*

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*Illinoisians permitted to enter if they can show proof of citizenship.
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(01-27-2019, 07:31 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: A tiny piece of the Morrocan Gardens, an indoor spot of green for the citizens of St. Louis and Missouri.*

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*Illinoisians permitted to enter if they can show proof of citizenship.


Never heard of it but that's nothing new.  What I don't know would fill several books.  But moving to Missouri isn't an option.  I'm a special snowflake that requires minimal humidity, cool summers and mild winters.  I know, I know.  My loss. But you can't have everything.
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(01-27-2019, 08:00 PM)Mark Wrote:
(01-27-2019, 07:31 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: A tiny piece of the Morrocan Gardens, an indoor spot of green for the citizens of St. Louis and Missouri.*

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*Illinoisians permitted to enter if they can show proof of citizenship.


Never heard of it but that's nothing new.  What I don't know would fill several books.  But moving to Missouri isn't an option.  I'm a special snowflake that requires minimal humidity, cool summers and mild winters.  I know, I know.  My loss. But you can't have everything.

But! We have petunias!

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And ... erm ... petunias!

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(01-27-2019, 08:51 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(01-27-2019, 08:00 PM)Mark Wrote:
(01-27-2019, 07:31 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: A tiny piece of the Morrocan Gardens, an indoor spot of green for the citizens of St. Louis and Missouri.*

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*Illinoisians permitted to enter if they can show proof of citizenship.


Never heard of it but that's nothing new.  What I don't know would fill several books.  But moving to Missouri isn't an option.  I'm a special snowflake that requires minimal humidity, cool summers and mild winters.  I know, I know.  My loss. But you can't have everything.

But! We have petunias!

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That is some pretty serious horti-porn.  Big swollen pink plant sex organs.  Hubba-hubba.


(01-27-2019, 08:54 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: And ... erm ... petunias!

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I think those might be made of glass.


As long as we're looking at plant sex organs here are two that don't do too well in my area but probably would in yours or in @Finite Monkeys neighborhood.  Bishop's Hood and Goat's Beard (I think they're called) want more summer water than they would get from me.  I took this photo at Nymans. I loved the combination.

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A thread for sharing photos of gardens you like, ones you visit or your very own.
The Morrocan Gardens are (or were) part of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.
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(01-27-2019, 09:21 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The Morrocan Gardens are (or were) part of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

Good!  I'm pretty sure I can get in there without a phony Missouri ID, and it's already on my bucket list. I'll bet they'd even honor my reciprocal membership privileges.  It is one of the best bot gardens in the country, belongs on the shortest of lists.

I think they have a lot of that Glass artwork in the garden.  Got to admit I'm not a huge fan of artwork in gardens generally but colorful glass just steals the show.
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A thread for sharing photos of gardens you like, ones you visit or your very own.
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(01-27-2019, 08:00 PM)Mark Wrote:
(01-27-2019, 07:31 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: A tiny piece of the Morrocan Gardens, an indoor spot of green for the citizens of St. Louis and Missouri.*

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*Illinoisians permitted to enter if they can show proof of citizenship.


Never heard of it but that's nothing new.  What I don't know would fill several books.  But moving to Missouri isn't an option.  I'm a special snowflake that requires minimal humidity, cool summers and mild winters.  I know, I know.  My loss. But you can't have everything.

There's probably a one-week window in there somewhere that has tolerable weather. Tongue
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(01-27-2019, 09:30 PM)Mark Wrote:
(01-27-2019, 09:21 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The Morrocan Gardens are (or were) part of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

Good!  I'm pretty sure I can get in there without a phony Missouri ID, and it's already on my bucket list.  I'll bet they'd even honor my reciprocal membership privileges.  It is one of the best bot gardens in the country, belongs on the shortest of lists.

I think they have a lot of that Glass artwork in the garden.  Got to admit I'm not a huge fan of artwork in gardens generally but colorful glass just steals the show.

The difference is that when you enter you have to pay admission if you're not a resident of St. Louis County. You prove you're a resident by giving them your zip code, say "63030". Whistling
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I heard Kitty say something about the garden we saw in Arundel...
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Although I have many pictures, I cannot show you the most beautiful flower I saw in there. Modest
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More Missouri Botanical Gardens (MBG).

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