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beth chatto's garden
trip with Harpenden Horticultural Society on 27th May 2015
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 Eschscholzia californica or Californian poppy |
 Salvia |
 Seedhead of the pasque flower |
 A delicate foot high blotch free variety of papaver orientalis 'Leuchtfeuer'
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 Blue and purple plaanting |
 Very dark purple aquilegia |
 Eucalyptus |
 Rosa spinosissima 'Falkland' |
 Iris 'Jane Philips' |
 Yellow planting |
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 Verbascum |
 Iris 'Black Swan' |
 Heart of a verbascum |
 Asphodeline |
 First bed in the dry garden |
We looked around the nursery and then had a very early sandwich lunch. It was worth it as the rush started just as we were leaving the new enlarged caf? area. |
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 View below with glamour glow
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 Stripy reeds |
 Water garden |
 Zantedeschia aethiopica |
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 Beth Chatto's bungalow |
 Iris sibirica |
 Gunnera flower & new leaf  |
 Candelabra primula |
 Bachelor's buttons |
 Sitting in the shade |
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 Iris pseudacorus variegata |
 Iris 'Gerald Derby' |
 Stream
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 Solomon's Seal |
 Trollius |
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 Hybrid rhododendron |
 Angelica in the wood |
 Judas tree |
 Rose |
 Symphytum |
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 Dimorphotheca |
 Red leaves on the eucalypt |
 Ceanothus |
 Asphodels |
 Melianthus major |
 Holly Blue on allium aflatunense |
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We had a stop for retail therapy at Beeches Nursery near Saffron Walden; fortunately we only bought a couple of plants. slideshow below- flowers from both gardens |
Parsonage House
Wiggens Green, Helions Bumpstead, Haverhill, Essex. What a wonderful address!
 Irregular avenue |
 Camassia in the wild flower meadow |
 Mixed planting |
 Rosa banksii flora plena |
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 Border and close-up of the lavender tulips  |
 Honeysuckle on the loo |
 The WC |
 Silybum marianum album |
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 Front of the house |
 Tall echium by the door |
 Cerinthe |
 The front from the other side |
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 White tree peony |
 Pelargonium cultivar in the greenhouse |
 Pelargonium |
 Aquilegia |
 Smyrnium |
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 Magnolia wilsonii, what a beauty! |
 Clematis hybrid |
We saw some very interesting unspoiled villages and small towns on our trip and los of desirable plants. The cats had been waiting four hours for their supper and were glad to see us. Today they have brought in a couple of baby birds... |
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