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hhp trip to essex

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langthorn's plantery

We inspected every inch of Langthorn's Plantery as shown by the logger

Plants on the owner's house

Rosa 'Wickwar'

Soulieana Hybrid, medium sized, creamy-white, single flowers borne in clusters.   Dense growth with greyish foliage;  also makes a good shrub with support.  (See above) 

Being a climber the thorns are large.   It flowers once only.

Terrible photograph as it was windy and a fast shutter speed gave very little depth of field, the tips of the petals are OK!!   As it was such a handsome and unusual peony, I thought it was worth including it.

Peony before the pollen appears.

 

 

Eremurus fox tail lily

Strelitzia reginae

Tree fern fiddlehead

Cornus kousa with extra large flowers

Rosa moyesii a pink form

Melianthus major with flowers and fruits

Erigeron mucronatus

Dilapidated barn

Pond

We loaded up the coach with the fruits of some enjoyable retail therapy, then on to Hyde Hall for lunch and more plants

hyde hall

gps points at Hyde Hall, picture by Google

We had lunch on arrival at Hyde Hall then walked up the hill to the restaurant for coffee.   It was still very windy!

Alliums and red hot pokers

Men still at work

Art Gallery

Restaurant ceiling

Tree ferns

Fox tail lilies

Weather still changeable, but it did not rain

Graham Thomas

Good planting

Rosa 'Erfurt' - Kordes 1939

Elegant grasses

furzelea

gps points in the garden, picture by Google

Furzelea

A Victorian house surrounded by a garden designed, created and maintained by the owners to provide all year round interest. The colour coordinated borders and beds are enhanced with topiary, grasses and climbers. April starts with thousands of tulips followed by Alliums. By June the roses are blooming with many perennials, July is hemerocallis show time, Sept includes Dahlias Asters, late exotics.

 

Mirror

Self sown

One of the many fine clematis hybrids

Clematis durandii

Clematis 'Josephine'

What is it?

Pools

Rusty dragonfly

Beech mast for a path

Arum

Papaver 'Patty's Plum

What a wonderful complexion

Border

Hemerocallis cultivar

Pink and blue border

Longer view

Pink and purple

Nice combination

Red eschscholzia californica

Foxglove

Red hot pokers

Rosa 'Hot Chocolate'

Hot border

Boris hiding in the bushes

Cornus kousa

Poppy pod

Summer house

Rosa 'Hot Chocolate'

We had tea with some wonderful cake especially a ginger and apple one, then after an additional quarter of an hour in the garden we enjoyed a trouble free journey home.   The loveliest garden that I have seen in years.   A well organized trip

1.FANDSGingerandapple_cake.htm for the recipe, kindly supplied by Roger